Java SQL Date Parse parseDate(String strFormat, String dateValue)

Description

Parse a string and return the date value in the specified format

License

Apache License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
strFormat	a parameter
dateValue	a parameter

Exception

Parameter	Description
ParseException	an exception
Exception	an exception

Declaration

public static Date parseDate(String strFormat, String dateValue) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
//License from project: Apache License 

import java.sql.Timestamp;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

import java.util.Date;

public class Main {
    public static final String TIME_PATTERN_DEFAULT = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss";
    public static final String DATE_PATTERN_DEFAULT = "yyyy-MM-dd";

    /**/*w w w  .  jav a  2s  . c  o m*/
     * Parse a string and return a date value
     * 
     * @param dateValue
     * @return
     * @throws Exception
     */
    public static Date parseDate(String dateValue) {
        return parseDate(DATE_PATTERN_DEFAULT, dateValue);
    }

    /**
     * Parse a string and return the date value in the specified format
     * 
     * @param strFormat
     * @param dateValue
     * @return
     * @throws ParseException
     * @throws Exception
     */
    public static Date parseDate(String strFormat, String dateValue) {
        if (dateValue == null)
            return null;

        if (strFormat == null)
            strFormat = TIME_PATTERN_DEFAULT;

        SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(strFormat);
        Date newDate = null;

        try {
            newDate = dateFormat.parse(dateValue);
        } catch (ParseException pe) {
            newDate = null;
        }
        return newDate;
    }

    public static Date parseDate(Date date, String pattern) {
        DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern);
        String dateStr = df.format(date);
        return parseDate(pattern, dateStr);
    }

    public static String format(Date aTs_Datetime) {
        return format(aTs_Datetime, DATE_PATTERN_DEFAULT);
    }

    public static String format(Date aTs_Datetime, String as_Pattern) {
        if (aTs_Datetime == null || as_Pattern == null)
            return null;
        SimpleDateFormat dateFromat = new SimpleDateFormat();
        dateFromat.applyPattern(as_Pattern);

        return dateFromat.format(aTs_Datetime);
    }

    /**
     * @param aTs_Datetime
     * @param as_Pattern
     * @return
     */
    public static String format(Timestamp aTs_Datetime, String as_Pattern) {
        if (aTs_Datetime == null || as_Pattern == null)
            return null;
        SimpleDateFormat dateFromat = new SimpleDateFormat();
        dateFromat.applyPattern(as_Pattern);

        return dateFromat.format(aTs_Datetime);
    }
}

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