Java date validation joda time

Question

Is there anyway to validate if a given date(yyyy-MM-dd) is a valid date? It should handle leap year too. eg(2015-02-29) should be invalid. I\'m retrieving the date as a stri

Answer 1

This should work for you, I think (if you want to keep it simple).
You have to do setLenient(false) on a SimpleDateFormat.

public static boolean validateDate(String dateString){
    SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
    sdf.setLenient(false);
    try {
        sdf.parse(dateString);
        return true;
    } catch (ParseException ex) {
        return false;
    }
}