Mysql TIMEDIFF() Function example using java servlet

In this tutorial you will learn how can timediff() function of mysql be used in java servlet

Mysql TIMEDIFF() Function example using java servlet

In this tutorial you will learn how can timediff() function of mysql be used in java servlet

TIMEDIFF function of mysql takes two time/datetime expressions as argument and gives back the time/datetime after differentiate them, these two taken time/datetime expression must be of same type.

Syntax :

timediff(expr1, expr2);

Here the 'expr1' & 'expr2' are time/datetime.

Now, since I have to use this function in java servlet program, therefore I have created a java servlet class named MysqlTimediffServlet which extends the HttpServlet class. In the body of class I overridden the method doGet() and created an objects of HttpServletRequest and HttpServletResponse into its parameter. Inside the doGet() method first I set the mime type that in which format the browser will show the output. In the next line I used the getWriter() method of ServletResponse interface with the object of HttpServletResponse. HttpServletResponse interface extends this method from the ServletResponse. In continue we have to make a connection between java code and database system. So, since I am using Mysql in the example given below therefore, I am loading the driver of mysql and make a connection by using the getConnection() method of DriverManager class. It returns a Connection. Further I am passing the query " SELECT TIMEDIFF('12:00:00', '10:35:00') as DIFF_OF_TIME; " (This query will return the output as 01:25:00 ) into the parameter of prepareStatement() method of Connection interface which gives an object of PreparedStatement interface. In the next line I used the executeQuery() method of PreparedStatement interface which returns a ResultSet object that holds the result of query. At last I have extracted the result from the ResultSet object.

Example :

MysqlTimediffServlet.java

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.PreparedStatement;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

public class MysqlTimediffServlet extends HttpServlet
{
 public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
  throws IOException, ServletException
 {
  response.setContentType("text/html");
  PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
  String className = "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver";
  String url = "jdbc:mysql://192.168.10.13/data";
  String user = "root";
  String password = "root";
  String sql = "SELECT TIMEDIFF('12:00:00', '10:35:00') as DIFF_OF_TIME";
  
  Connection con;
  PreparedStatement ps;
  ResultSet rs;
  
  try
  {
    Class.forName(className);
    con = DriverManager.getConnection(url, user, password);
    ps = con.prepareStatement(sql);
    rs = ps.executeQuery();
    
    out.println("<table>");
    out.println("<tr>");
    out.println("<td><b>DIFF_OF_TIME</b></td>");
    out.println("</tr>");
    while(rs.next())
    {
      String timeDiff = rs.getString(1);
      out.println("<tr>");
      out.println("<td>"+timeDiff+"</td>");
      out.println("</tr>");
    }
    out.println("</table>");
  }
  catch(SQLException sx)
  {
	out.println(sx);
  }
  catch(ClassNotFoundException cx)
  {
	out.println(cx);
  }
 }
}

web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app id="WebApp_ID" version="2.4" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">
<display-name>mysqlDate</display-name>

<servlet>
<servlet-name>MysqlTimediffServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>MysqlTimediffServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>MysqlTimediffServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/MysqlTimediffServlet</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

</web-app>

Output :

When you will execute the above example you will get the output as :

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