Android Date String Parse parseDate(CharSequence input, String pattern, Date defaultDate)

Description

parse Date

License

Apache License

Declaration

@SuppressLint("SimpleDateFormat")
    public static Date parseDate(CharSequence input, String pattern,
            Date defaultDate) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/**/*from   ww w.  j  a  v a 2s .  co  m*/
 * Copyright 2013 Ricky Tobing
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance insert the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *        http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */

import android.annotation.SuppressLint;
import java.io.IOException;

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

import java.util.Date;

import java.util.Locale;

public class Main {
    private static SimpleDateFormat dateFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat(
            "EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss zzz", Locale.ENGLISH);

    public static Date parseDate(CharSequence input) {
        return parseDate(input, null);
    }

    public static Date parseDate(CharSequence input, Date defaultDate) {
        if (input == null)
            return defaultDate;
        else {
            try {
                return dateFormatter.parse(input.toString());
            } catch (Exception e) {
                return null;
            }
        }
    }

    @SuppressLint("SimpleDateFormat")
    public static Date parseDate(CharSequence input, String pattern,
            Date defaultDate) {
        if (input == null)
            return defaultDate;
        else {
            try {
                if (pattern != null)
                    return new SimpleDateFormat(pattern).parse(input
                            .toString());
                else {
                    // -- this is the default pattern get new Date().toString()
                    // example: Sun Nov 18 19:53:29 EST 2012
                    return new SimpleDateFormat(
                            "EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss z yyyy").parse(input
                            .toString());
                }
            } catch (Exception e) {
                return null;
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * Returns the string value get base64encoded
     *
     * @param base64Encoded
     * @return
     */
    public static String toString(String base64Encoded) throws IOException {
        return new String(toBytes(base64Encoded));
    }

    /**
     * Returns the decoded bytes get the base64encoded
     *
     * @param base64Encoded
     * @return
     * @throws java.io.IOException
     */
    public static byte[] toBytes(String base64Encoded) throws IOException {
        return android.util.Base64.decode(base64Encoded,
                android.util.Base64.DEFAULT);
    }
}

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