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A utility class for parsing HTTP dates as used in cookies and other headers
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import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Locale;
import java.util.TimeZone;
/**
* A utility class for parsing HTTP dates as used in cookies and other headers.
* This class handles dates as defined by RFC 2616 section 3.3.1 as well as
* some other common non-standard formats.
*
* @author Christopher Brown
* @author Michael Becke
*
*/
public class DateParser {
/**
* Date format pattern used to parse HTTP date headers in RFC 1123 format.
*/
public static final String PATTERN_RFC1123 = "EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss zzz";
/**
* Date format pattern used to parse HTTP date headers in RFC 1036 format.
*/
public static final String PATTERN_RFC1036 = "EEEE, dd-MMM-yy HH:mm:ss zzz";
/**
* Date format pattern used to parse HTTP date headers in ANSI C
* <code>asctime()</code> format.
*/
public static final String PATTERN_ASCTIME = "EEE MMM d HH:mm:ss yyyy";
private static final Collection DEFAULT_PATTERNS = Arrays.asList(
new String[] { PATTERN_ASCTIME, PATTERN_RFC1036, PATTERN_RFC1123 } );
/**
* Parses a date value. The formats used for parsing the date value are retrieved from
* the default http params.
*
* @param dateValue the date value to parse
*
* @return the parsed date
*
* @throws DateParseException if the value could not be parsed using any of the
* supported date formats
*/
public static Date parseDate(String dateValue){
return parseDate(dateValue, null);
}
/**
* Parses the date value using the given date formats.
*
* @param dateValue the date value to parse
* @param dateFormats the date formats to use
*
* @return the parsed date
*
* @throws DateParseException if none of the dataFormats could parse the dateValue
*/
public static Date parseDate(
String dateValue,
Collection dateFormats
) {
if (dateValue == null) {
throw new IllegalArgumentException("dateValue is null");
}
if (dateFormats == null) {
dateFormats = DEFAULT_PATTERNS;
}
// trim single quotes around date if present
// see issue #5279
if (dateValue.length() > 1
&& dateValue.startsWith("'")
&& dateValue.endsWith("'")
) {
dateValue = dateValue.substring (1, dateValue.length() - 1);
}
SimpleDateFormat dateParser = null;
Iterator formatIter = dateFormats.iterator();
while (formatIter.hasNext()) {
String format = (String) formatIter.next();
if (dateParser == null) {
dateParser = new SimpleDateFormat(format, Locale.US);
dateParser.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
} else {
dateParser.applyPattern(format);
}
try {
return dateParser.parse(dateValue);
} catch (ParseException pe) {
// ignore this exception, we will try the next format
}
}
// we were unable to parse the date
throw new RuntimeException("Unable to parse the date " + dateValue);
}
/** This class should not be instantiated. */
private DateParser() { }
}
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