Using setDate in PreparedStatement

Question

In order to make our code more standard, we were asked to change all the places where we hardcoded our SQL variables to prepared statements and bind the variables instead. <

Answer 1

Not sure, but what I think you're looking for is to create a java.util.Date from a String, then convert that java.util.Date to a java.sql.Date.

try this:

private static java.sql.Date getCurrentDate(String date) {

    java.util.Date today;
    java.sql.Date rv = null;
    try {

        SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");
        today = format.parse(date);
        rv = new java.sql.Date(today.getTime());
        System.out.println(rv.getTime());

    } catch (Exception e) {
        System.out.println("Exception: " + e.getMessage());
    } finally {
        return rv;
    }

}    

Will return a java.sql.Date object for setDate();

The function above will print out a long value:

1375934400000