Package org.mycore.frontend.xeditor.validation

Class MCRDateConverter

java.lang.Object

org.mycore.frontend.xeditor.validation.MCRDateConverter

public class MCRDateConverter
extends Object

Helper for date validators to convert string input into a date value.

Author:

Frank Lützenkirchen

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
MCRDateConverter(String patterns)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
protected SimpleDateFormat	getDateFormat(String pattern)
Date	string2date(String input)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

MCRDateConverter

public MCRDateConverter(String patterns)

Parameters:

patterns - a list of allowed SimpleDateFormat patterns separated by ";"

Method Details

getDateFormat

protected SimpleDateFormat getDateFormat(String pattern)

string2date

public Date string2date(String input)
                 throws MCRException

Parameters:

input - the text string

Returns:

the parsed Date matching one of the allowed date patterns, or null if the text can not be parsed

Throws:

MCRException