public boolean isValid()

in src/main/java/org/apache/commons/validator/DateValidator.java [104:129]

• 21 lines of code
• 4 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

    public boolean isValid(final String value, final Locale locale) {

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

        DateFormat formatter;
        if (locale != null) {
            formatter = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.SHORT, locale);
        } else {
            formatter =
                    DateFormat.getDateInstance(
                            DateFormat.SHORT,
                            Locale.getDefault());
        }

        formatter.setLenient(false);

        try {
            formatter.parse(value);
        } catch (final ParseException e) {
            return false;
        }

        return true;
    }