[royale-asjs] branch develop updated: formatters: add getDateFromString to IDateFormatter to create a Date object from a formatted date string

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The following commit(s) were added to refs/heads/develop by this push:
     new 23c9ef1  formatters: add getDateFromString to IDateFormatter to create a Date object from a formatted date string
23c9ef1 is described below

commit 23c9ef1a8186f4cc3f180bdfb2b2d98afab8c443
Author: Carlos Rovira <ca...@apache.org>
AuthorDate: Tue Mar 26 19:08:43 2019 +0100

    formatters: add getDateFromString to IDateFormatter to create a Date object from a formatted date string
---
 .../org/apache/royale/core/IDateFormatter.as       |  2 ++
 .../royale/html/accessories/SimpleDateFormatter.as | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 43 insertions(+)

diff --git a/frameworks/projects/Core/src/main/royale/org/apache/royale/core/IDateFormatter.as b/frameworks/projects/Core/src/main/royale/org/apache/royale/core/IDateFormatter.as
index 5dc49cf..2654a8e 100644
--- a/frameworks/projects/Core/src/main/royale/org/apache/royale/core/IDateFormatter.as
+++ b/frameworks/projects/Core/src/main/royale/org/apache/royale/core/IDateFormatter.as
@@ -31,5 +31,7 @@ package org.apache.royale.core
   {
     function get dateFormat():String;
     function set dateFormat(value:String):void;
+
+	function getDateFromString(str:String):Date
   }
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/frameworks/projects/Formatters/src/main/royale/org/apache/royale/html/accessories/SimpleDateFormatter.as b/frameworks/projects/Formatters/src/main/royale/org/apache/royale/html/accessories/SimpleDateFormatter.as
index 24d087a..74a02c4 100644
--- a/frameworks/projects/Formatters/src/main/royale/org/apache/royale/html/accessories/SimpleDateFormatter.as
+++ b/frameworks/projects/Formatters/src/main/royale/org/apache/royale/html/accessories/SimpleDateFormatter.as
@@ -139,5 +139,46 @@ package org.apache.royale.html.accessories
 			return result;
 		}
 		
+		/**
+		 *  Returns a Date created from a date string
+		 *  
+		 *  @param str, the date formated string. Some examples of valid formats are MM/DD/YYYY, DD/MM/YYYY
+		 *  @return the date object generated from the string or null
+		 *  @langversion 3.0
+		 *  @playerversion Flash 10.2
+		 *  @playerversion AIR 2.6
+		 *  @productversion Royale 0.9.6
+		 */
+		public function getDateFromString(str:String):Date
+		{
+			if (str != null) {
+				var month:int;
+				var day:int;
+				var year:int;
+				var tokens:Array = dateFormat.split(_separator);
+				var strtokens:Array = str.split(_separator);
+				var length:int = tokens.length;
+				
+				for (var i:int = 0; i < length; i++) {
+                    switch (tokens[i]) {
+                        case "YYYY":
+                            year = int(strtokens[i]);
+				            break;
+                        case "YY":
+							year = 2000 + int(strtokens[i]);
+				            break;
+                        case "MM" || "M":
+							month = int(strtokens[i]) - 1;
+				            break;
+                        case "DD" || "D":
+							day = int(strtokens[i]);
+				            break;
+                    }
+				}
+				
+				return new Date(year, month, day);
+			}
+			return null;
+		}
 	}
 }