SimpleDateFormat parse(string str) doesn't throw an exception when str = 2011/12/12aaaaaaaaa?

Question

Here is an example:

public MyDate() throws ParseException {
    SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(\"yyyy/MM/d\");
    sdf.setLenient(false);
    St         


        

Answer 1

To chack whether a date is valid The following method returns if the date is in valid otherwise it will return false.

public boolean isValidDate(String date) {

        SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/d");
        Date testDate = null;
        try {
            testDate = sdf.parse(date);
        }
        catch (ParseException e) {
            return false;
        }
        if (!sdf.format(testDate).equals(date)) {
            return false;
        }
        return true;

    }

Have a look on the following class which can check whether the date is valid or not

** Sample Example**

import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

public class DateValidCheck {


    public static void main(String[] args) {

        if(new DateValidCheck().isValidDate("2011/12/12aaa")){
            System.out.println("...date is valid");
        }else{
            System.out.println("...date is invalid...");
        }

    }


    public boolean isValidDate(String date) {

        SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/d");
        Date testDate = null;
        try {
            testDate = sdf.parse(date);
        }
        catch (ParseException e) {
            return false;
        }
        if (!sdf.format(testDate).equals(date)) {
            return false;
        }
        return true;

    }

}