RE: How To: String --> sql.Date and String --> java.util.Date

Probably through the use of introspection.

--- Lim Hock-Chai <Lim.Hock-Chai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> thanks for the sample codes.  My date string doesn't
> contains hh:mm:ss.  I think I probably know how to
> get around that if Date class error it out.  
> 
> Got another question:  
> I use Apache's BeanUtils.copyProperties copy bean
> properties from ActionForm to my DAO class.  In the
> ActionForm the date is string but in the DAO the
> date is sql.Date.  How does BeanUtils.copyProperties
> knows how to copy it correctly?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
> Igor Seremet
> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 9:02 AM
> To: Java Programming on and around the iSeries /
> AS400
> Subject: Re: How To: String --> sql.Date and String
> --> java.util.Date
> 
> 
> 1)  
>   /**
>    * Check if the specified timestamp is greater
> than now
>    * 
>    * @param futureTimestamp
>    * @return
>    */
>   public static boolean isValid(Timestamp
> futureTimestamp) {
>     if (futureTimestamp != null) {
>       Timestamp now = new
> Timestamp(System.currentTimeMillis());
>       return futureTimestamp.after(now);
>     }
>     else {
>       return false;
>     }
>   }
> 
> 
> 2)
> 
>   public static java.sql.Date toDate(String strDate)
>       throws NullPointerException {
>     if (strDate == null) {
>       throw new NullPointerException("Date
> invalid.");
>     }
>     else {
>       java.sql.Date parsedDate = null;
>       try {
>         SimpleDateFormat formatter = new
> SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-mm-dd-hh.mm.ss");
>         parsedDate = new
> Date(formatter.parse(strDate).getTime());
> 
>       }
>       catch (Exception e) {
>         e.printStackTrace();
>       }
>       return parsedDate;
>     }
>   }
> 
> 
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