How to create variable with the first day of current month in Databricks Spark Scala?-CodePudding

Using Spark Scala on Databricks, I am trying to create a variable that contains the first day of the current month.

In the first step, I just get the current date, and it works fine:

val current_date = LocalDate.now()

That gives me the correct output, such as:

current_date: java.time.LocalDate = 2022-05-02

My problem is when I try to get the first day of the current month. I have tried to use

CodePudding user response：

I just had to use the method withDayOfMonth(1). The 1 inside the brackets indicates that it must return the first day of month.

The following code works:

val current_month = LocalDate.now().withDayOfMonth(1)