Here is an example:
public MyDate() throws ParseException {
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/d");
sdf.setLenient(false);
String t1 = "2011/12/12aaa";
System.out.println(sdf.parse(t1));
}
2011/12/12aaa is not a valid date string. However the function prints "Mon Dec 12 00:00:00 PST 2011" and ParseException isn't thrown.
Can anyone tell me how to let SimpleDateFormat treat "2011/12/12aaa" as an invalid date string and throw an exception?
The JavaDoc on parse(...)
states the following:
parsing does not necessarily use all characters up to the end of the string
It seems like you can't make SimpleDateFormat
throw an exception, but you can do the following:
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/d");
sdf.setLenient(false);
ParsePosition p = new ParsePosition( 0 );
String t1 = "2011/12/12aaa";
System.out.println(sdf.parse(t1,p));
if(p.getIndex() < t1.length()) {
throw new ParseException( t1, p.getIndex() );
}
Basically, you check whether the parse consumed the entire string and if not you have invalid input.