String to a LocalDate Conversion in Java

LocalDate.parse() method of the java.time.LocalDate class to convert a String representation of a date into a LocalDate object. The parse() method will take the date string and a DateTimeFormatter (yyyy-MM-dd) as parameters.

Syntax to Define an Input Format

DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd");

Syntax to Convert String Date into LocalDate

LocalDate localDate = LocalDate.parse(dateString, formatter);

Converting a String to a LocalDate in Java is a common operation when you are dealing with date inputs from users. Java provides the LocalDate class in the java.time package for representing a date without time information. LocalDate class is part of the java.time package introduced in Java 8.