Creating a dateRange Scala, Joda, Java

A work around is to define the dates like this:

val date = new DateTime().withYear(2013).withMonthOfYear(7).withDayOfMonth(16)

The entire sequence in the REPL then becomes this:

scala> import org.joda.time.{DateTime, Period}
import org.joda.time.{DateTime, Period}

scala> def dateRange(from: DateTime, to: DateTime, step: Period): Iterator[DateTime]      =Iterator.iterate(from)(_.plus(step)).takeWhile(!_.isAfter(to))
dateRange: (from: org.joda.time.DateTime, to: org.joda.time.DateTime, step: org.joda.time.Period)Iterator[org.joda.time.DateTime]

scala> val from = new DateTime().withYear(2012).withMonthOfYear(6).withDayOfMonth(30).minusYears(5)
from: org.joda.time.DateTime = 2007-06-30T21:46:05.536-07:00

scala> val to = new DateTime().withYear(2000).withMonthOfYear(6).withDayOfMonth(30)
to: org.joda.time.DateTime = 2000-06-30T21:46:26.186-07:00

scala> val range = dateRange(from, to, new Period().withMonths(6))
range: Iterator[org.joda.time.DateTime] = non-empty iterator

scala> range.toList
res4: List[org.joda.time.DateTime] = List(
2000-06-30T21:46:26.186-07:00,
2000-12-30T21:46:26.186-08:00,
2001-06-30T21:46:26.186-07:00,
2001-12-30T21:46:26.186-08:00,
2002-06-30T21:46:26.186-07:00,
2002-12-30T21:46:26.186-08:00,
2003-06-30T21:46:26.186-07:00,
2003-12-30T21:46:26.186-08:00,
2004-06-30T21:46:26.186-07:00,
2004-12-30T21:46:26.186-08:00,
2005-06-30T21:46:26.186-07:00,
2005-12-30T21:46:26.186-08:00,
2006-06-30T21:46:26.186-07:00,
2006-12-30T21:46:26.186-08:00)

Also, I wasn't able to reproduce this as noted in my comment. Seems the behavior is different in the REPL and the compiler.

I was needing something similar. Here's what I came up with:

import org.joda.time.{Period, DateTime}

class DateRange(val start: DateTime, val end: DateTime, val step: Period, inclusive: Boolean) extends Iterable[DateTime] {
    override def iterator: Iterator[DateTime] = new DateRangeIterator

    class DateRangeIterator extends Iterator[DateTime] {
        var current = start

        override def hasNext: Boolean = current.isBefore(end) || (inclusive && current == end)

        override def next(): DateTime = {
            val returnVal = current
            current = current.withPeriodAdded(step, 1)
            returnVal
        }
    }
}

Example Usage:

val startOfDay: DateTime = new DateTime().withTimeAtStartOfDay()
val endOfDay: DateTime = startOfDay.plusDays(1)
val dateRange = new DateRange(startOfDay, endOfDay, Period.hours(1), false)
for (d <- dateRange) println(d)

Output:

2015-03-16T00:00:00.000-05:00
2015-03-16T01:00:00.000-05:00
2015-03-16T02:00:00.000-05:00
2015-03-16T03:00:00.000-05:00
2015-03-16T04:00:00.000-05:00
2015-03-16T05:00:00.000-05:00
2015-03-16T06:00:00.000-05:00
2015-03-16T07:00:00.000-05:00
2015-03-16T08:00:00.000-05:00
2015-03-16T09:00:00.000-05:00
2015-03-16T10:00:00.000-05:00
2015-03-16T11:00:00.000-05:00
2015-03-16T12:00:00.000-05:00
2015-03-16T13:00:00.000-05:00
2015-03-16T14:00:00.000-05:00
2015-03-16T15:00:00.000-05:00
2015-03-16T16:00:00.000-05:00
2015-03-16T17:00:00.000-05:00
2015-03-16T18:00:00.000-05:00
2015-03-16T19:00:00.000-05:00
2015-03-16T20:00:00.000-05:00
2015-03-16T21:00:00.000-05:00
2015-03-16T22:00:00.000-05:00
2015-03-16T23:00:00.000-05:00

Ok, Here is the complete working code.

import org.joda.time.{Period, DateTime}

object runme {

  def main(args:Array[String]) {

  def dateRange(from: DateTime, to: DateTime, step: Period): Iterator[DateTime]
  =Iterator.iterate(from)(_.plus(step)).takeWhile(!_.isAfter(to))

  val range = { dateRange(new DateTime(2000, 06, 30,0,0,0,0).minusYears(5) ,new DateTime(2013, 06, 30,0,0,0,0),new Period(0,6,0,0,0,0,0,0))}

  range.foreach(u => { 
    print(u.getYear)
    print(u.getMonthOfYear)
    println(u.getDayOfMonth)
  })

 }
}

I think my main problem was not having enough numbers after the DateTime() functions (ie the milliseconds etc.) this meant the compiler wasn't receiving all the parameters that it wanted. As mentioned by Alexey Romanov

This then prints the dates for a desired range, and can be used as an iterator.

Hope that helps others.

Thanks @Brian and others for the Help