private T toDate()

in src/main/java/org/apache/commons/beanutils2/converters/DateTimeConverter.java [632:671]
34 lines of code
8 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

    private <T> T toDate(final Class<T> type, final String value) {
        // java.sql.Date
        if (type.equals(java.sql.Date.class)) {
            try {
                return type.cast(java.sql.Date.valueOf(value));
            } catch (final IllegalArgumentException e) {
                throw new ConversionException(
                        "String must be in JDBC format [yyyy-MM-dd] to create a java.sql.Date");
            }
        }

        // java.sql.Time
        if (type.equals(java.sql.Time.class)) {
            try {
                return type.cast(java.sql.Time.valueOf(value));
            } catch (final IllegalArgumentException e) {
                throw new ConversionException(
                        "String must be in JDBC format [HH:mm:ss] to create a java.sql.Time");
            }
        }

        // java.sql.Timestamp
        if (type.equals(java.sql.Timestamp.class)) {
            try {
                return type.cast(java.sql.Timestamp.valueOf(value));
            } catch (final IllegalArgumentException e) {
                throw new ConversionException(
                        "String must be in JDBC format [yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.fffffffff] " +
                        "to create a java.sql.Timestamp");
            }
        }

        final String msg = toString(getClass()) + " does not support default String to '"
                   + toString(type) + "' conversion.";
        if (log().isWarnEnabled()) {
            log().warn("    " + msg);
            log().warn("    (N.B. Re-configure Converter or use alternative implementation)");
        }
        throw new ConversionException(msg);
    }