How to create Date Object and Compare Dates

Question

I am n tot able to convert/compare dates extracted from a calendar to the current date My aim is to evaluate the current date against the dates in the rows/cell and select/click the button beside the row/cell. But it is throwing an error

Below is my code:

 for (WebElement pd: payDates) {

  LocalDate currentDate = LocalDate.now();

  java.util.Date d = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd").parse(currentDate.toString());

  if (pd >= (d)) {

   driver.findElement(By.xpath("//tr[starts-with(@id,'changeStartWeekGrid_row_')and not(starts-with(@id,'changeStartWeekGrid_row_column'))]/td[5]/span'" + reqIndex + "])/TBODY[@id='changeStartWeekGrid_rows_tbody']/TR[7]/TD[1]/DIV[1]/DIV[1]/DIV[1]")).click();

   PS_OBJ_CycleData.donebtn(driver).click();

   break;

  } else {

   reqIndex++;

   PS_OBJ_CycleData.Nextbtn(driver).click();

  }

 }

} while (reqIndex < 7); /// do this 7 times;

int reqIndex = 0;

 dowhileloop: do {

 List < WebElement > payDates = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//tr[starts-with(@id,'changeStartWeekGrid_row_')and not(starts-with(@id,'changeStartWeekGrid_row_column'))]/td[5]/span"));

List < String > texts = payDates.stream().map(WebElement::getText).collect(Collectors.toList());

   System.out.println("date ->" + texts);

   for (WebElement pd: payDates) { 

    SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");

    Date payDate = dateFormat.parse(pd.getText());

    System.out.println("sample-> " + dateFormat.format(payDate));

    if (payDate.after(new Date())) {

     System.out.println("inside for loop");

     driver.findElement(By.xpath("//tr[starts-with(@id,'changeStartWeekGrid_row_')and not(starts-with(@id,'changeStartWeekGrid_row_column'))]/td[5]/span'" + reqIndex + "])/TBODY[@id='changeStartWeekGrid_rows_tbody']/TR[7]/TD[1]/DIV[1]/DIV[1]/DIV[1]")).click();

     PS_OBJ_CycleData.donebtn(driver).click();

     break dowhileloop;

    }

   } 

   reqIndex++;

   PS_OBJ_CycleData.Nextbtn(driver).click();

   Thread.sleep(5000);

Answer 1

You can convert pd to date (or better, its epoch as long (date is deprecated)) and do d.compare instead of >=. Hope this will help.