/*
* Copyright (c) 2012 Data Harmonisation Panel
*
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials are made
* available under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
* published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License,
* or (at your option) any later version.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
* along with this distribution. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*
* Contributors:
* HUMBOLDT EU Integrated Project #030962
* Data Harmonisation Panel <http://www.dhpanel.eu>
*/
package eu.esdihumboldt.cst.functions.string;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import com.google.common.collect.ListMultimap;
import eu.esdihumboldt.hale.common.core.parameter.Validator;
/**
* Validator for date format strings.
*
* @author Kai Schwierczek
*/
public class DateExtractionFormatValidator implements Validator {
/**
* @see eu.esdihumboldt.hale.common.core.parameter.Validator#validate(java.lang.String)
*/
@Override
public String validate(String value) {
try {
new SimpleDateFormat(value);
} catch (Exception e) {
return e.getLocalizedMessage();
}
return null;
}
/**
* @see eu.esdihumboldt.hale.common.core.parameter.Validator#setParameters(com.google.common.collect.ListMultimap)
*/
@Override
public void setParameters(ListMultimap<String, String> parameters) {
// no parameters
}
}