README.md
1Overview
2========
3jISO8601 is yet another library made to parse dates in Java. It may still be useful since:
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5* It's trivial to use
6* It's lightweight
7* It's compatible with Android
8* It can parse any date compatible with the norm
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11Getting started
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14There are only two public methods:
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16 import fr.turri.jiso8601.*;
17 ...
18 Calendar cal = Iso8601Deserializer.toCalendar("1985-03-04");
19 Date date = Iso8601Deserializer.toDate("1985-03-04T12:34:56Z");
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22Each type of ISO8601 dates are supported (calendar, ordinal and week dates, basic and extended format)
23as weel as each format of hour and timezone.
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25Installation
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27Using it with maven
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29This package will soon be available on maven central. For now it needs to be build from source.
30For instance, on Ubuntu:
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32 git clone https://github.com/gturri/jiso8601
33 cd jiso8601
34 sudo apt-get install maven
35 mvn install
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37Then, in your pom.xml, add
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39```xml
40<dependency>
41 <groupId>fr.turri</groupId>
42 <artifactId>jISO8601</artifactId>
43 <version>0.1</version>
44</dependency>
45```
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47Out of scope (for now)
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49Recurring time interval and Periods aren't supported. Feel free to open feature requests.
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