BAEL-3045 Validate Date

Check if a string contains valid date

java-dates-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/date/validation/DateValidator.java

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+package com.baeldung.date.validation;
+
+public interface DateValidator {
+   public boolean isValid(String dateStr);
+}

java-dates-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/date/validation/DateValidatorUsingApacheValidator.java

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+package com.baeldung.date.validation;
+
+import org.apache.commons.validator.GenericValidator;
+
+public class DateValidatorUsingApacheValidator implements DateValidator {
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean isValid(String dateStr) {
+        return GenericValidator.isDate(dateStr, "yyyy-MM-dd", true); 
+    }
+}

java-dates-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/date/validation/DateValidatorUsingDateFormat.java

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+package com.baeldung.date.validation;
+
+import java.text.DateFormat;
+import java.text.ParseException;
+import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
+
+public class DateValidatorUsingDateFormat implements DateValidator {
+    private String dateFormat;
+
+    public DateValidatorUsingDateFormat(String dateFormat) {
+        this.dateFormat = dateFormat;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean isValid(String dateStr) {
+        DateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(this.dateFormat);
+        sdf.setLenient(false);
+        try {
+            sdf.parse(dateStr);
+        } catch (ParseException e) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        return true;
+    }
+}

java-dates-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/date/validation/DateValidatorUsingDateTimeFormatter.java

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+package com.baeldung.date.validation;
+
+import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
+import java.time.format.DateTimeParseException;
+
+public class DateValidatorUsingDateTimeFormatter implements DateValidator {
+    private DateTimeFormatter dateFormatter;
+    
+    public DateValidatorUsingDateTimeFormatter(DateTimeFormatter dateFormatter) {
+        this.dateFormatter = dateFormatter;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean isValid(String dateStr) {
+        try {
+            this.dateFormatter.parse(dateStr);
+        } catch (DateTimeParseException e) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        return true;
+    }
+}

java-dates-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/date/validation/DateValidatorUsingLocalDate.java

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+package com.baeldung.date.validation;
+
+import java.time.LocalDate;
+import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
+import java.time.format.DateTimeParseException;
+
+public class DateValidatorUsingLocalDate implements DateValidator {
+    private DateTimeFormatter dateFormatter;
+    
+    public DateValidatorUsingLocalDate(DateTimeFormatter dateFormatter) {
+        this.dateFormatter = dateFormatter;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean isValid(String dateStr) {
+        try {
+            LocalDate.parse(dateStr, this.dateFormatter);
+        } catch (DateTimeParseException e) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        return true;
+    }
+}