com.standbysoft.component.date
Interface DateParser

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultDateParser

public interface DateParser

The date parser interface defines the operation that must be implemented by any other object wants to scan a text in order to produce a date. Such a parser can be plugged in any JDateEditComponent to customise the way dates are entered.

Method Summary

java.util.Date

parse(java.lang.String text, java.util.Date reference, java.text.DateFormat format) Parses a text that could be represented using a certain date format to determine the date it represents.

Method Detail

parse

public java.util.Date parse(java.lang.String text,
                            java.util.Date reference,
                            java.text.DateFormat format)
                     throws DateParserException

Parses a text that could be represented using a certain date format to determine the date it represents.

Parameters:

text - text representation of a possible date

reference - possible reference date the parser could use to compute the new date

format - date format that could be used to represent the date in text form

Returns:

date resulted from the text representation.

Throws:

DateParserException - if the parsed text does not match a date