public static Date formatDate()

in src/main/java/org/apache/commons/validator/GenericTypeValidator.java [182:210]

• 23 lines of code
• 8 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

    public static Date formatDate(final String value, final String datePattern, final boolean strict) {
        Date date = null;

        if (value == null
                || datePattern == null
                || datePattern.isEmpty()) {
            return null;
        }

        try {
            final SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(datePattern);
            formatter.setLenient(false);

            date = formatter.parse(value);

            if (strict && datePattern.length() != value.length()) {
                date = null;
            }
        } catch (final ParseException e) {
            // Bad date so return null
            if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
                LOG.debug("Date parse failed value=[" + value + "], " +
                        "pattern=[" + datePattern + "], " +
                        "strict=[" + strict + "] " + e);
            }
        }

        return date;
    }