/*
 * Copyright (C) 2005 Alfresco, Inc.
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
 * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
 * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.

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 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA.
 */
package org.alfresco.repo.dictionary;

import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

import org.alfresco.util.CachingDateFormat;


/**
 * Support translating model from and to XML
 * 
 * @author David Caruana
 *
 */
public class M2XML
{
   
    /**
     * Convert XML date (of the form yyyy-MM-dd) to Date 
     * 
     * @param date  the xml representation of the date
     * @return  the date
     * @throws ParseException
     */
    public static Date deserialiseDate(String date)
        throws ParseException
    {
        Date xmlDate = null;
        if (date != null)
        {
            SimpleDateFormat df = CachingDateFormat.getDateOnlyFormat();
            xmlDate = df.parse(date);
        }
        return xmlDate;
    }

    
    /**
     * Convert date to XML date (of the form yyyy-MM-dd)
     * 
     * @param date  the date
     * @return  the xml representation of the date
     */
    public static String serialiseDate(Date date)
    {
        String xmlDate = null;
        if (date != null)
        {
            SimpleDateFormat df = CachingDateFormat.getDateOnlyFormat();
            xmlDate = df.format(date);
        }
        return xmlDate;
    }
    
}