public static Date formatDate()

in src/main/java/org/apache/commons/validator/GenericTypeValidator.java [117:164]
38 lines of code
6 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

    public static Date formatDate(final String value, final Locale locale) {
        Date date = null;

        if (value == null) {
            return null;
        }

        try {
            // Get the formatters to check against
            DateFormat formatterShort = null;
            DateFormat formatterDefault = null;
            if (locale != null) {
                formatterShort =
                        DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.SHORT, locale);
                formatterDefault =
                        DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.DEFAULT, locale);
            } else {
                formatterShort =
                        DateFormat.getDateInstance(
                                DateFormat.SHORT,
                                Locale.getDefault());
                formatterDefault =
                        DateFormat.getDateInstance(
                                DateFormat.DEFAULT,
                                Locale.getDefault());
            }

            // Turn off lenient parsing
            formatterShort.setLenient(false);
            formatterDefault.setLenient(false);

            // Firstly, try with the short form
            try {
                date = formatterShort.parse(value);
            } catch (final ParseException e) {
                // Fall back on the default one
                date = formatterDefault.parse(value);
            }
        } catch (final ParseException e) {
            // Bad date, so LOG and return null
            if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
                LOG.debug("Date parse failed value=[" + value + "], " +
                        "locale=[" + locale + "] " + e);
            }
        }

        return date;
    }