Parse dates with multiple formats (#13348)

Code examples for "Parsing Date Strings with Varying Formats"

core-java-modules/core-java-8-datetime-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/parsingDates/SimpleDateTimeFormat.java

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+package com.baeldung.parsingDates;
+
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.List;
+import org.joda.time.LocalDate;
+import org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormat;
+
+public class SimpleDateTimeFormat {
+
+    public static LocalDate parseDate(String date) {
+        List<String> patternList = Arrays.asList("MM/dd/yyyy", "dd.MM.yyyy", "yyyy-MM-dd");
+        for (String pattern : patternList) {
+            try {
+                return DateTimeFormat.forPattern(pattern).parseLocalDate(date);
+            } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
+            }
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
+}

core-java-modules/core-java-8-datetime-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/parsingDates/SimpleDateTimeFormater.java

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+package com.baeldung.parsingDates;
+
+import java.time.LocalDate;
+import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
+import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatterBuilder;
+
+public class SimpleDateTimeFormater {
+
+    public static LocalDate parseDate(String date) {
+        DateTimeFormatterBuilder dateTimeFormatterBuilder = new DateTimeFormatterBuilder()
+                .append(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("[MM/dd/yyyy]" + "[dd-MM-yyyy]" + "[yyyy-MM-dd]"));
+
+        DateTimeFormatter dateTimeFormatter = dateTimeFormatterBuilder.toFormatter();
+
+        return LocalDate.parse(date, dateTimeFormatter);
+    }
+}

core-java-modules/core-java-8-datetime-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/parsingDates/SimpleDateUtils.java

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+package com.baeldung.parsingDates;
+
+import java.text.ParseException;
+import java.util.Date;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.time.DateUtils;
+
+public class SimpleDateUtils {
+
+    public static Date parseDate(String date) {
+        try {
+            return DateUtils.parseDateStrictly(date,
+                    new String[]{"yyyy/MM/dd", "dd/MM/yyyy", "yyyy-MM-dd"});
+        } catch (ParseException ex) {
+            return null;
+        }
+    }
+
+}

core-java-modules/core-java-8-datetime-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/parsingDates/SimpleParseDate.java

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+package com.baeldung.parsingDates;
+
+import java.text.ParseException;
+import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
+import java.util.Date;
+import java.util.List;
+
+public class SimpleParseDate {
+
+    public Date parseDate(String dateString, List<String> formatStrings) {
+        for (String formatString : formatStrings) {
+            try {
+                return new SimpleDateFormat(formatString).parse(dateString);
+            } catch (ParseException e) {
+            }
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
+}

core-java-modules/core-java-8-datetime-2/src/test/java/com/baeldung/parsingDates/SimpleParseDateUnitTest.java

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+package com.baeldung.parsingDates;
+
+import com.baeldung.parsingDates.SimpleDateTimeFormat;
+import com.baeldung.parsingDates.SimpleDateTimeFormater;
+import com.baeldung.parsingDates.SimpleDateUtils;
+import com.baeldung.parsingDates.SimpleParseDate;
+import java.time.format.DateTimeParseException;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import org.junit.*;
+import static org.junit.Assert.*;
+import org.joda.time.LocalDate;
+
+public class SimpleParseDateUnitTest {
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenInvalidInput_thenGettingUnexpectedResult() {
+        SimpleParseDate simpleParseDate = new SimpleParseDate();
+        String date = "2022-40-40";
+        assertEquals("Sat May 10 00:00:00 UTC 2025", simpleParseDate.parseDate(date, Arrays.asList("MM/dd/yyyy", "dd.MM.yyyy", "yyyy-MM-dd")).toString());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenInvalidDate_thenAssertThrows() {
+        SimpleDateTimeFormater simpleDateTimeFormater = new SimpleDateTimeFormater();
+        assertEquals(java.time.LocalDate.parse("2022-12-04"), simpleDateTimeFormater.parseDate("2022-12-04"));
+        assertThrows(DateTimeParseException.class, () -> simpleDateTimeFormater.parseDate("2022-13-04"));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenDateIsCorrect_thenParseCorrect() {
+        SimpleDateUtils simpleDateUtils = new SimpleDateUtils();
+        assertNull(simpleDateUtils.parseDate("53/10/2014"));
+        assertEquals("Wed Sep 10 00:00:00 UTC 2014", simpleDateUtils.parseDate("10/09/2014").toString());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenDateIsCorrect_thenResultCorrect() {
+        SimpleDateTimeFormat simpleDateTimeFormat = new SimpleDateTimeFormat();
+        assertNull(simpleDateTimeFormat.parseDate("53/10/2014"));
+        assertEquals(LocalDate.parse("2014-10-10"), simpleDateTimeFormat.parseDate("2014-10-10"));
+    }
+
+}