conversion of string into java.util.Date

[vikassheel gupta]

Hi
i have a problem related to string conversion in java.util.Date data type so that it can be inserted into the data base so for this telll me how

what i did till now is:---

String adate="";
java.util.Date a_date=null;

SimpleDateFormat ts= new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy");
adate=request.getParameter("1-sep-2000");
try{
if((adate!=null)&& (!(adate.equals(""))))
{
a_date = (java.util.Date) ts.parse(adate);
}
}catch(ParseException e) {
System.out.println("Unable to parse " + e);
}

out.println("a_date:--"+a_date+"<br>");

but when i run this code the out put will be :--

java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "null"
at java.text.DateFormat.parse(DateFormat.java:334)
at jsp_servlet.__dod._jspService(dod.jsp:164)
at weblogic.servlet.jsp.JspBase.service(JspBase.java:33)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl$ServletInvocationAction.run
(ServletStubImpl.java:971)

but as u can see the value in string is not null but it can not parse that value so tell me the solution
thanks alot for your kind help

[vikassheel gupta]

Here the string is like request.getParameter("text1"); instead of request.getParameter("1-sep-2000")
thanks

[Satish Chilukuri]

Looks like your request.getParameter() is returning a String literal "null".

[Sravan Kumar]

request.getParameter() takes an argument that's a name of the parameter that comes in the request. Do not hardcode the date. I guess you get the date from a form field and pass it in the request. Pass the name of the form field.

[vikassheel gupta]

hi
the value comes from the prev page is fine it is "9-sep-2000" but when we try to change it or we can say we try to parse it , it shows the parsing error so tell me how can i
or leave all that just tell me ur code how will you convert a string into java.util.Date
thanks alot

[David Ulicny]

Lets try this pattern
"d-MMM-yyyy"