Computes a new duration whose value is this+rhs.

 

Computes a new duration whose value is this+rhs.

For example,

 "1 day" + "-3 days" = "-2 days"
 "1 year" + "1 day" = "1 year and 1 day"
 "-(1 hour,50 minutes)" + "-20 minutes" = "-(1 hours,70 minutes)"
 "15 hours" + "-3 days" = "-(2 days,9 hours)"
 "1 year" + "-1 day" = IllegalStateException
 

Since there's no way to meaningfully subtract 1 day from 1 month, there are cases where the operation fails in IllegalStateException.

Formally, the computation is defined as follows.

Firstly, we can assume that two Durations to be added are both positive without losing generality (i.e., (-X)+Y=Y-X, X+(-Y)=X-Y, (-X)+(-Y)=-(X+Y))

Addition of two positive Durations are simply defined as field by field addition where missing fields are treated as 0.

A field of the resulting Duration will be unset if and only if respective fields of two input Durations are unset.

Note that lhs.add(rhs) will be always successful if lhs.signum()*rhs.signum()!=-1 or both of them are normalized.

Returns: non-null valid Duration object.
Parameters:
- rhs - Duration to add to this Duration
Throws:
- NullPointerException - If the rhs parameter is null.
- IllegalStateException - If two durations cannot be meaningfully added. For example, adding negative one day to one month causes this exception.
See Also: Duration.subtract(Duration),

  Adds this duration to a Calendar object.

  Adds this duration to a Calendar object.

Calls Calendar.add(int,int) in the order of YEARS, MONTHS, DAYS, HOURS, MINUTES, SECONDS, and MILLISECONDS if those fields are present. Because the Calendar class uses int to hold values, there are cases where this method won't work correctly (for example if values of fields exceed the range of int.)

Also, since this duration class is a Gregorian duration, this method will not work correctly if the given Calendar object is based on some other calendar systems.

Any fractional parts of this Duration object beyond milliseconds will be simply ignored. For example, if this duration is "P1.23456S", then 1 is added to SECONDS, 234 is added to MILLISECONDS, and the rest will be unused.

Note that because Calendar.add(int, int) is using int, Duration with values beyond the range of int in its fields will cause overflow/underflow to the given Calendar. XMLGregorianCalendar.add(Duration) provides the same basic operation as this method while avoiding the overflow/underflow issues.
Parameters:
- calendar - A calendar object whose value will be modified.
Throws:
- NullPointerException - if the calendar parameter is null.

  Adds this duration to a Date object.

  Adds this duration to a Date object.

The given date is first converted into a GregorianCalendar, then the duration is added exactly like the Duration.addTo(Calendar) method.

The updated time instant is then converted back into a Date object and used to update the given Date object.

This somewhat redundant computation is necessary to unambiguously determine the duration of months and years.
Parameters:
- date - A date object whose value will be modified.
Throws:
- NullPointerException - if the date parameter is null.

  Partial order relation comparison with this Duration instance.

 

Partial order relation comparison with this Duration instance.

Comparison result must be in accordance with W3C XML Schema 1.0 Part 2, Section 3.2.7.6.2, Order relation on duration.

Return:

• DatatypeConstants.LESSER if this Duration is shorter than duration parameter
• DatatypeConstants.EQUAL if this Duration is equal to duration parameter
• DatatypeConstants.GREATER if this Duration is longer than duration parameter
• DatatypeConstants.INDETERMINATE if a conclusive partial order relation cannot be determined

Returns: the relationship between this Durationand duration parameter as {@link DatatypeConstants#LESSER}, {@link DatatypeConstants#EQUAL}, {@link DatatypeConstants#GREATER} or {@link DatatypeConstants#INDETERMINATE}.
Parameters:
- duration - to compare
Throws:
- UnsupportedOperationException - If the underlying implementation cannot reasonably process the request, e.g. W3C XML Schema allows for arbitrarily large/small/precise values, the request may be beyond the implementations capability.
- NullPointerException - if duration is null.
See Also: Duration.isShorterThan(Duration), Duration.isLongerThan(Duration),

  Checks if this duration object has the same duration as another Duration object.

 

Checks if this duration object has the same duration as another Duration object.

For example, "P1D" (1 day) is equal to "PT24H" (24 hours).

Duration X is equal to Y if and only if time instant t+X and t+Y are the same for all the test time instants specified in the section 3.2.6.2 of the XML Schema 1.0 specification.

Note that there are cases where two Durations are "incomparable" to each other, like one month and 30 days. For example,

 !new Duration("P1M").isShorterThan(new Duration("P30D"))
 !new Duration("P1M").isLongerThan(new Duration("P30D"))
 !new Duration("P1M").equals(new Duration("P30D"))
 

Returns: true if this duration is the same length as duration. false if duration is null, is not a Duration object, or its length is different from this duration.
Parameters:
- duration - The object to compare this Duration against.
Throws:
- UnsupportedOperationException - If the underlying implementation cannot reasonably process the request, e.g. W3C XML Schema allows for arbitrarily large/small/precise values, the request may be beyond the implementations capability.
See Also: Duration.compare(Duration duration),

  Obtains the value of the DAYS field as an integer value, or 0 if not present.

  Obtains the value of the DAYS field as an integer value,
or 0 if not present.

This method works just like Duration.getYears() except
that this method works on the DAYS field.
Returns: Days of this Duration.

  Gets the value of a field.

  Gets the value of a field.

Fields of a duration object may contain arbitrary large value.
Therefore this method is designed to return a Number object.

In case of YEARS, MONTHS, DAYS, HOURS, and MINUTES, the returned
number will be a non-negative integer. In case of seconds,
the returned number may be a non-negative decimal value.
Returns: If the specified field is present, this method returns a non-null non-negative {@link Number} object that represents its value. If it is not present, return null. For YEARS, MONTHS, DAYS, HOURS, and MINUTES, this method returns a {@link java.math.BigInteger} object. For SECONDS, this method returns a {@link java.math.BigDecimal}.
Parameters:
- field - one of the six Field constants (YEARS,MONTHS,DAYS,HOURS, MINUTES, or SECONDS.)
Throws:
- NullPointerException - If the field is null.

  Obtains the value of the HOURS field as an integer value, or 0 if not present.

  Obtains the value of the HOURS field as an integer value,
or 0 if not present.

This method works just like Duration.getYears() except
that this method works on the HOURS field.
Returns: Hours of this Duration.

  Obtains the value of the MINUTES field as an integer value, or 0 if not present.

  Obtains the value of the MINUTES field as an integer value,
or 0 if not present.

This method works just like Duration.getYears() except
that this method works on the MINUTES field.
Returns: Minutes of this Duration.

  Obtains the value of the MONTHS field as an integer value, or 0 if not present.

  Obtains the value of the MONTHS field as an integer value,
or 0 if not present.

This method works just like Duration.getYears() except
that this method works on the MONTHS field.
Returns: Months of this Duration.

  Obtains the value of the SECONDS field as an integer value, or 0 if not present.

  Obtains the value of the SECONDS field as an integer value,
or 0 if not present.

This method works just like Duration.getYears() except
that this method works on the SECONDS field.
Returns: seconds in the integer value. The fraction of seconds will be discarded (for example, if the actual value is 2.5, this method returns 2)

  Returns the sign of this duration in -1,0, or 1.

  Returns the sign of this duration in -1,0, or 1.
Returns: -1 if this duration is negative, 0 if the duration is zero, and 1 if the duration is positive.

  Returns the length of the duration in milli-seconds.

 

Returns the length of the duration in milli-seconds.

If the seconds field carries more digits than milli-second order, those will be simply discarded (or in other words, rounded to zero.) For example, for any Calendar value x,

 new Duration("PT10.00099S").getTimeInMills(x) == 10000.
 new Duration("-PT10.00099S").getTimeInMills(x) == -10000.
 

Note that this method uses the Duration.addTo(Calendar) method, which may work incorrectly with Duration objects with very large values in its fields. See the Duration.addTo(Calendar) method for details.
Returns: milliseconds between startInstant and startInstant plus this Duration
Parameters:
- startInstant - The length of a month/year varies. The startInstant is used to disambiguate this variance. Specifically, this method returns the difference between startInstant and startInstant+duration
Throws:
- NullPointerException - if startInstant parameter is null.

  Returns the length of the duration in milli-seconds.

 

Returns the length of the duration in milli-seconds.

If the seconds field carries more digits than milli-second order, those will be simply discarded (or in other words, rounded to zero.) For example, for any Date value x,

 new Duration("PT10.00099S").getTimeInMills(x) == 10000.
 new Duration("-PT10.00099S").getTimeInMills(x) == -10000.
 

Note that this method uses the Duration.addTo(Date) method, which may work incorrectly with Duration objects with very large values in its fields. See the Duration.addTo(Date) method for details.
Returns: milliseconds between startInstant and startInstant plus this Duration
Parameters:
- startInstant - The length of a month/year varies. The startInstant is used to disambiguate this variance. Specifically, this method returns the difference between startInstant and startInstant+duration.
Throws:
- NullPointerException - If the startInstant parameter is null.
See Also: Duration.getTimeInMillis(Calendar),

  Return the name of the XML Schema date/time type that this instance maps to.

 

Return the name of the XML Schema date/time type that this instance maps to. Type is computed based on fields that are set, i.e. Duration.isSet(DatatypeConstants.Field field) == true.

Required fields for XML Schema 1.0 Date/Time Datatypes. (timezone is optional for all date/time datatypes)
Datatype	year	month	day	hour	minute	second
DatatypeConstants.DURATION	X	X	X	X	X	X
DatatypeConstants.DURATION_DAYTIME			X	X	X	X
DatatypeConstants.DURATION_YEARMONTH	X	X

Returns: one of the following constants: {@link DatatypeConstants#DURATION}, {@link DatatypeConstants#DURATION_DAYTIME} or {@link DatatypeConstants#DURATION_YEARMONTH}.
Throws:
- IllegalStateException - If the combination of set fields does not match one of the XML Schema date/time datatypes.

  Get the years value of this Duration as an int or 0 if not present.

 

Get the years value of this Duration as an int or 0 if not present.

getYears() is a convenience method for getField(DatatypeConstants.YEARS).

As the return value is an int, an incorrect value will be returned for Durations with years that go beyond the range of an int. Use getField(DatatypeConstants.YEARS) to avoid possible loss of precision.

Returns: If the years field is present, return its value as an int, else return 0.

  Returns a hash code consistent with the definition of the equals method.

  Returns a hash code consistent with the definition of the equals method.
See Also: Object.hashCode(),

  Checks if this duration object is strictly longer than another Duration object.

 

Checks if this duration object is strictly longer than another Duration object.

Duration X is "longer" than Y if and only if X>Y as defined in the section 3.2.6.2 of the XML Schema 1.0 specification.

For example, "P1D" (one day) > "PT12H" (12 hours) and "P2Y" (two years) > "P23M" (23 months).

Returns: true if the duration represented by this object is longer than the given duration. false otherwise.
Parameters:
- duration - Duration to test this Duration against.
Throws:
- UnsupportedOperationException - If the underlying implementation cannot reasonably process the request, e.g. W3C XML Schema allows for arbitrarily large/small/precise values, the request may be beyond the implementations capability.
- NullPointerException - If duration is null.
See Also: Duration.isShorterThan(Duration), Duration.compare(Duration duration),

  Checks if a field is set.

  Checks if a field is set.

A field of a duration object may or may not be present.
This method can be used to test if a field is present.
Returns: true if the field is present. false if not.
Parameters:
- field - one of the six Field constants (YEARS,MONTHS,DAYS,HOURS, MINUTES, or SECONDS.)
Throws:
- NullPointerException - If the field parameter is null.

  Checks if this duration object is strictly shorter than another Duration object.

 

Checks if this duration object is strictly shorter than another Duration object.

Returns: true if duration parameter is shorter than this Duration, else false.
Parameters:
- duration - Duration to test this Duration against.
Throws:
- UnsupportedOperationException - If the underlying implementation cannot reasonably process the request, e.g. W3C XML Schema allows for arbitrarily large/small/precise values, the request may be beyond the implementations capability.
- NullPointerException - if duration is null.
See Also: Duration.isLongerThan(Duration duration), Duration.compare(Duration duration),

  Computes a new duration whose value is factor times longer than the value of this duration.

  Computes a new duration whose value is factor times longer than the value of this duration.

For example,

 "P1M" (1 month) * "12" = "P12M" (12 months)
 "PT1M" (1 min) * "0.3" = "PT18S" (18 seconds)
 "P1M" (1 month) * "1.5" = IllegalStateException
 

Since the Duration class is immutable, this method doesn't change the value of this object. It simply computes a new Duration object and returns it.

The operation will be performed field by field with the precision of BigDecimal. Since all the fields except seconds are restricted to hold integers, any fraction produced by the computation will be carried down toward the next lower unit. For example, if you multiply "P1D" (1 day) with "0.5", then it will be 0.5 day, which will be carried down to "PT12H" (12 hours). When fractions of month cannot be meaningfully carried down to days, or year to months, this will cause an IllegalStateException to be thrown. For example if you multiple one month by 0.5.

To avoid IllegalStateException, use the Duration.normalizeWith(Calendar) method to remove the years and months fields.
Returns: returns a non-null valid Duration object
Parameters:
- factor - to multiply by
Throws:
- IllegalStateException - if operation produces fraction in the months field.
- NullPointerException - if the factor parameter is null.

  Computes a new duration whose value is factor times longer than the value of this duration.

 

Computes a new duration whose value is factor times longer than the value of this duration.

This method is provided for the convenience. It is functionally equivalent to the following code:

 multiply(new BigDecimal(String.valueOf(factor)))
 

Returns: New Duration that is factortimes longer than this Duration.
Parameters:
- factor - Factor times longer of new Duration to create.
See Also: Duration.multiply(BigDecimal),

  Returns a new Duration object whose value is -this.

  Returns a new Duration object whose value is -this.

Since the Duration class is immutable, this method doesn't change the value of this object. It simply computes a new Duration object and returns it.
Returns: always return a non-null valid Duration object.

  Converts the years and months fields into the days field by using a specific time instant as the reference point.

 

Converts the years and months fields into the days field by using a specific time instant as the reference point.

For example, duration of one month normalizes to 31 days given the start time instance "July 8th 2003, 17:40:32".

Formally, the computation is done as follows:

1. the given Calendar object is cloned
2. the years, months and days fields will be added to the Calendar object by using the Calendar.add(int,int) method
3. the difference between the two Calendars in computed in milliseconds and converted to days, if a remainder occurs due to Daylight Savings Time, it is discarded
4. the computed days, along with the hours, minutes and seconds fields of this duration object is used to construct a new Duration object.

Note that since the Calendar class uses int to hold the value of year and month, this method may produce an unexpected result if this duration object holds a very large value in the years or months fields.

Returns: Duration of years and months of this Duration as days.
Parameters:
- startTimeInstant - Calendar reference point.
Throws:
- NullPointerException - If the startTimeInstant parameter is null.

  Computes a new duration whose value is this-rhs.

 

Computes a new duration whose value is this-rhs.

For example:

 "1 day" - "-3 days" = "4 days"
 "1 year" - "1 day" = IllegalStateException
 "-(1 hour,50 minutes)" - "-20 minutes" = "-(1hours,30 minutes)"
 "15 hours" - "-3 days" = "3 days and 15 hours"
 "1 year" - "-1 day" = "1 year and 1 day"
 

Since there's no way to meaningfully subtract 1 day from 1 month, there are cases where the operation fails in IllegalStateException.

Formally the computation is defined as follows. First, we can assume that two Durations are both positive without losing generality. (i.e., (-X)-Y=-(X+Y), X-(-Y)=X+Y, (-X)-(-Y)=-(X-Y))

Then two durations are subtracted field by field. If the sign of any non-zero field F is different from the sign of the most significant field, 1 (if F is negative) or -1 (otherwise) will be borrowed from the next bigger unit of F.

This process is repeated until all the non-zero fields have the same sign.

If a borrow occurs in the days field (in other words, if the computation needs to borrow 1 or -1 month to compensate days), then the computation fails by throwing an IllegalStateException.

Returns: New Duration created from subtracting rhs from this Duration.
Parameters:
- rhs - Duration to subtract from this Duration.
Throws:
- IllegalStateException - If two durations cannot be meaningfully subtracted. For example, subtracting one day from one month causes this exception.
- NullPointerException - If the rhs parameter is null.
See Also: Duration.add(Duration),

  Returns a String representation of this Duration Object.

 

Returns a String representation of this Duration Object.

The result is formatted according to the XML Schema 1.0 spec and can be always parsed back later into the equivalent Duration Object by DatatypeFactory.newDuration(String lexicalRepresentation).

Formally, the following holds for any Duration Object x:

 new Duration(x.toString()).equals(x)
 

Returns: A non-null valid String representation of this Duration.