On 10/25/07, Narahari 'n' Savitha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Friends, > > This might have been asked before but I am unable to find a searchable > archive for the LANG.\
Really? That's a little hard to believe. Here are the 5 that I'm aware of: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/commons-user/ http://marc.info/?l=jakarta-commons-user&r=1&w=2 http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ http://www.nabble.com/Commons---User-f319.html http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.jakarta.commons.user -- Martin Cooper Here it is. > > In the Example 1. which uses the DateUtisl.parseDate method the date I am > providing is 14/32/2007. This is an invalid date but since the parseDate > method uses a LENIENT SimpleDateFormat object the dates are being parsed > as > valid. This is not something that will help me. I would rather, this > throw > a ParseException. > > Could we add a method called parseDateStrict or provide a setter/getter to > set the strict attribute so that can in turn set the attribute on the > SimpleDateFormat method ? > > We could also allow a mechanish where the caller provides the > SimpleDateFormat object which can be used to set the attributest that the > user wants on the parser. > > Please see Example 2 which is what I was thinking the parseDate method > would > do. > > Thanks for your time and attention. > -Narahari > > Example 1: > > try { > String [] patternArray = { "MM/dd/yyyy"}; > Calendar c =DateUtils.parseDate("14/32/2007", patternArray); > Date d = c.getTime(); > } catch(Exception e) { > assertTrue("It should only be a parse exception", (e instanceof > ParseException)); > } > > > Example 2: > > try { > SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy"); > sdf.setLenient(false); > Date d = sdf.parse("14/32/2007"); > } catch(Exception e) { > assertTrue("It should only be a parse exception", (e instanceof > ParseException)); > } >
