libjava/java/sql/Date.java

   1 /* Date.java -- Wrapper around java.util.Date
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  37
  38 package java.sql;
  39
  40 import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
  41
  42 /**
  43   * This class is a wrapper around java.util.Date to allow the JDBC
  44   * driver to identify the value as a SQL Date.
  45   *
  46   * @author Aaron M. Renn (arenn@urbanophile.com)
  47   */
  48 public class Date extends java.util.Date
  49 {
  50   static final long serialVersionUID = 1511598038487230103L;
  51
  52   /**
  53    * Used for parsing and formatting this date.
  54    */
  55   private static SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
  56
  57   /**
  58    * This method initializes a new instance of this class with the
  59    * specified year, month, and day.
  60    *
  61    * @param year The year of this date minue 1900.
  62    * @param month The month of this date (0-11).
  63    * @param day The day of this date (1-31).
  64    *
  65    * @deprecated
  66    */
  67   public Date(int year, int month, int day)
  68   {
  69     super(year, month, day);
  70   }
  71
  72   /**
  73    * This method initializes a new instance of this class with the
  74    * specified time value representing the number of seconds since
  75    * Jan 1, 1970 at 12:00 midnight GMT.
  76    *
  77    * @param time The time value to intialize this date to.
  78    */
  79   public Date(long date)
  80   {
  81     super(date);
  82   }
  83
  84   /**
  85    * This method returns a new instance of this class by parsing a
  86    * date in JDBC format into a Java date.
  87    *
  88    * @param str The string to parse.
  89    * @return The resulting <code>java.sql.Date</code> value.
  90    */
  91   public static Date valueOf(String str)
  92   {
  93     try
  94       {
  95         java.util.Date d = (java.util.Date) sdf.parseObject(str);
  96         return(new Date(d.getTime()));
  97       }
  98     catch(Exception e)
  99       {
 100         return(null);
 101       }
 102   }
 103
 104   /**
 105    * This method returns this date in JDBC format.
 106    *
 107    * @return This date as a string.
 108    */
 109   public String toString()
 110   {
 111     return(sdf.format(this));
 112   }
 113 }