How to convert String object to Date object? [duplicate]

Answer 1

You can convert String object into Date object using this method. and this Java code is tested and running component in my environment.

public static Date parseStringAsDate(String dateStr, String format) throws ParseException
{
    if(null==dateStr || "".equals(dateStr))
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("dateStr must not be null or empty");
    DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat(format);
    return df.parse(dateStr);
}

dateStr = "17/05/2017"

format= "dd/MM/yyyy"