Package com.jbstrap.core.validators

Class DateValidator

java.lang.Object

com.jbstrap.core.validators.DateValidator

All Implemented Interfaces:

DataValidator

public class DateValidator
extends Object
implements DataValidator

Date validator class

Since:

4.0

Author:

JBStrap

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
DateValidator()	Creates a date validator object, with the default yyyy-MM-dd date format
DateValidator(String format)	Creates a date validator, with the specified date format

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
String	validateData(Object data, String language)	Validates the specified value.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

DateValidator

public DateValidator()

Creates a date validator object, with the default yyyy-MM-dd date format

DateValidator

public DateValidator(String format)

Creates a date validator, with the specified date format

Parameters:

format - The date format, that will be used for the validation process

Method Details

validateData

public String validateData(Object data,
 String language)

Validates the specified value.

The specified value will be validated, if it can be converted into a date, according to the specified date format.

The error message returned by the method can be customized, or can be translated, by using the validator.dateValidatorError properties file key. For more information about translating/multi-language support, see the MessageSourceAPI class description

Specified by:

validateData in interface DataValidator

Parameters:

data - The data to be validated

language - The language code of the error message. If not specified, the default language will be used. The default language can be set with the DEFAULT_LANGUAGE JBStrap parameter.

Returns:

The specified error message or null, if the validation found no errors.