com.bankframe.validation
Class DateConvertor

java.lang.Object
  com.bankframe.validation.DateConvertor

public class DateConvertor

extends java.lang.Object

The DateConvertor class is used to convert date objects to string objects and vice versa. The dates will be formatted in accordance with a supplied formatting pattern. When processing date objects and strings using the static methods in this class the formatting pattern for the date must be supplied. If the formatting pattern is null, a ValidationException is thrown

Constructor Summary

DateConvertor()

Method Summary

static java.util.Date	getDate(java.lang.String pattern, java.lang.String date) Method to convert a date string to an object
static java.lang.String	getString(java.lang.String pattern, java.util.Date dateOrTime) Method to convert a Date object to a string
static java.sql.Time	getTime(java.lang.String pattern, java.lang.String time) Method to convert a time string to a Time object
static java.sql.Timestamp	getTimestamp(java.lang.String pattern, java.lang.String timestamp) Method to convert a date object to a string object

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

DateConvertor

public DateConvertor()

Method Detail

getDate

public static java.util.Date getDate(java.lang.String pattern,
                                     java.lang.String date)
                              throws ValidationException

Method to convert a date string to an object

Parameters:

pattern - String pattern of the date String's format

date - String String to process into an object

Returns:

Date returns a Date object

Throws:

ValidationException - if input data null or empty

getString

public static java.lang.String getString(java.lang.String pattern,
                                         java.util.Date dateOrTime)
                                  throws ValidationException

Method to convert a Date object to a string

Parameters:

pattern - String pattern to format dateOrTime to.

dateOrTime - Date object tp process into a string

Returns:

String returns a String representation of the date/time

Throws:

ValidationException - if input data null or empty

getTime

public static java.sql.Time getTime(java.lang.String pattern,
                                    java.lang.String time)
                             throws ValidationException

Method to convert a time string to a Time object

Parameters:

pattern - String pattern of the time String's format

time - String to process into a Time object

Returns:

Time returns a Time object

Throws:

ValidationException - if input data null or empty

getTimestamp

public static java.sql.Timestamp getTimestamp(java.lang.String pattern,
                                              java.lang.String timestamp)
                                       throws ValidationException

Method to convert a date object to a string object

Parameters:

pattern - String pattern of the timestamp String's format

timestamp - String to process into a Timestamp object

Returns:

Timestamp returns a Timestamp object

Throws:

ValidationException - if input data null or empty