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           Summary: validateDate does not handle exceptions
           Product: Struts
           Version: 1.2.4
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P4
         Component: Validator Framework
        AssignedTo: dev@struts.apache.org
        ReportedBy: dan.haim@ssa.gov


I created acustomized Validator for date. It first does some complex 
validation before validating the date string. Inside the validation method I 
call the Struts 

org.apache.struts.validator.FieldChecks.validateDate(bean, va, field, errors, 
request);

with the strict MM/dd/yyyy format declared in validation.xml. When I give it 
an invalid formatted date, say 12/00/2005 an unhandled exception is thrown by 
the date parser within the validateDate method. It than shows the exception 
stack on the server log. This should not happen - it should catch the 
exception, modify the errors and return false, or just throw an exception and 
let me handle it.

In addition, why the hack does validateDate return a Date object if it is 
validated??? Just the Boolean TRUE or FALSE should come back. Strange...

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