Java String to Date toDate(final String dateString, final String format)

Description

to Date

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static Date toDate(final String dateString, final String format) throws ParseException 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
//License from project: Open Source License 

import java.text.ParseException;

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

import java.util.Date;

import java.util.Map;

import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;

public class Main {
    private static final Map<String, SimpleDateFormat> sdfs = new ConcurrentHashMap<String, SimpleDateFormat>();

    public static Date toDate(final String dateString, final String format) throws ParseException {
        if (dateString == null || dateString.isEmpty()) {
            return null;
        }//  w  w  w .j  a va2 s  . co m

        final SimpleDateFormat sdf = getSimpleDateFormat(format);

        Date date = null;
        if (dateString != null) {
            date = sdf.parse(dateString);
        }

        return date;
    }

    public static boolean isEmpty(final String string) {
        return string == null || string.trim().length() == 0;
    }

    private static SimpleDateFormat getSimpleDateFormat(final String format) {
        SimpleDateFormat sdf = sdfs.get(format);
        if (sdf == null) {
            sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(format);
            sdfs.put(format, sdf);
        }
        return sdf;
    }
}

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