Check simple date format? (YYYY-MM-dd'T'HH: mm: ss)
I'm going to test the simple date ( yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss
) format as follows. This implementation works for most of the basic validations, but for some reason I found that some of the validations did not work. For example, if you enter 2014-09-11T03:27:54kanmsdklnasd
, 2014-09-11T03:27:54234243
it is not confirmed. Could you please point out my code error?
code
String timestamp = "2014-09-11T03:27:54";
SimpleDateFormat format = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss");
try{
format.parse(timestamp);
LOG.info("Timestamp is a valid format");
}
catch(ParseException e)
{
return ssoResponse;
}
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SimpleDateFormat.parse()
(which comes from DateFormat.parse()
) cannot be used for full blown validation as quoting from the javadoc :
The method may not use all the text for a given line.
Instead, you can use DateFormat.parse(String source, ParsePosition pos)
to confirm.
The passed ParsePosition
parameter is "in-out", you can get information about this after calling the method parse()
:
SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss");
// If you set lenient to false, ranges will be checked, e.g.
// seconds must be in the range of 0..59 inclusive.
format.setLenient(false);
String timestamp = "2014-09-11T03:27:54";
ParsePosition pos = new ParsePosition(0);
format.parse(timestamp, pos); // No declared exception, no need try-catch
if (pos.getErrorIndex() >= 0) {
System.out.println("Input timestamp is invalid!");
} else if (pos.getIndex() != timestamp.length()) {
System.out.println("Date parsed but not all input characters used!"
+ " Decide if it good or bad for you!");
} else {
System.out.println("Input is valid, parsed completely.");
}
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Using JodaTime is very easy.
import org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormat;
import org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
//from your method
String inputDateString = "2014-09-11T03:27:54kanmsdklnasd";
String pattern = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ";
boolean isValid = isValidDateFormat(inputDateString, pattern);
private boolean isValidDateFormat(String inputDateString, String format){
try {
DateTimeFormatter dtf = DateTimeFormat.forPattern(format);
dtf.parseDateTime(inputDateString);
} catch (Exception ex) {
return false;
}
return true;
}
You will get..
*Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException:
Invalid format: "2014-09-11T03:27:54kanmsdklnasd" is malformed at "kanmsdklnasd"*
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