TimeDTO.java

package no.niths.application.rest.helper;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.GregorianCalendar;

import no.niths.application.rest.exception.CustomParseException;
import no.niths.common.constants.MiscConstants;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
/**
 * Class that can hold two dates.
 * Used in some controllers to specify the
 * dates for a search
 */
public class TimeDTO implements Serializable {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 9063546904075958216L;
    private String startTime;
    private String endTime;
private Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(TimeDTO.class);
    
    public TimeDTO() {
        this(null,null);
    }
    
    public TimeDTO(String start, String end){
        setStartTime(start);
        setEndTime(end);
    }
    
    public String getEndTime() {
        return endTime;
    }

    public void setEndTime(String endTime) {
        this.endTime = endTime;
    }

    public String getStartTime() {
        return startTime;
    }

    public void setStartTime(String startTime) {
        this.startTime = startTime;
    }

    public GregorianCalendar getEndTimeCal() {
        return parseHelper(endTime);
    }

    public GregorianCalendar getStartTimeCal() {
        return parseHelper(startTime);
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return String.format("[%s][%s]", startTime, endTime);
    }
    
    private GregorianCalendar parseHelper(String parseableString) {
        DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat(MiscConstants.CALENDAR_FORMAT);
        GregorianCalendar calendar = new GregorianCalendar(2012, Calendar.MARCH, 9, 22, 21, 23);
        try {    
            calendar.setTime(df.parse(parseableString));
            logger.debug(calendar.getTime()+"");
            return calendar;
        } catch (ParseException px) {
            logger.debug(px.getMessage(),px);
            throw new CustomParseException("Invalid syntacs! Valid syntax : "
                    + MiscConstants.CALENDAR_FORMAT + " ErrorOffset:"
                    + px.getErrorOffset());
        }
    }
}