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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2014, United States Government, as represented by the
+ * Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
+ * All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * The Java Pathfinder core (jpf-core) platform is licensed under the
+ * Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except
+ * in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *        http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0. 
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package gov.nasa.jpf.vm;
+
+import gov.nasa.jpf.annotation.MJI;
+import gov.nasa.jpf.vm.MJIEnv;
+import gov.nasa.jpf.vm.NativePeer;
+
+import java.text.DateFormat;
+import java.text.Format;
+import java.text.ParseException;
+import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
+import java.util.Date;
+import java.util.TimeZone;
+
+/**
+ * this is just the minimal support for DateFormat.parse(String)
+ */
+public class JPF_java_text_DateFormat extends NativePeer {
+
+  DateFormat getInstance (MJIEnv env, int objref) {
+    Format fmt = JPF_java_text_Format.getInstance(env,objref);
+    assert fmt instanceof SimpleDateFormat;
+
+    return (DateFormat)fmt;
+  }
+
+  @MJI
+  public void setTimeZone__Ljava_util_TimeZone_2__V(MJIEnv env, int objref,int timeZoneRef) {
+    String timeZoneId = env.getStringField(timeZoneRef, "ID");
+    TimeZone timeZone = TimeZone.getTimeZone(timeZoneId);
+    DateFormat fmt = getInstance(env,objref);
+    fmt.setTimeZone(timeZone);
+    int calendarRef = env.getReferenceField(objref, "calendar");
+    env.setReferenceField(calendarRef, "zone", timeZoneRef);
+  }
+
+  @MJI
+  public int parse__Ljava_lang_String_2__Ljava_util_Date_2 (MJIEnv env, int objref, int strRef) {
+    DateFormat f = getInstance(env,objref);
+    String s = env.getStringObject(strRef);
+    try {
+      Date d = f.parse(s);
+      long t = d.getTime();
+
+      int dref = env.newObject("java.util.Date");
+      env.setLongField(dref, "fastTime", t);
+      return dref;
+
+    } catch (ParseException px) {
+      env.throwException("java.text.ParseException", px.getMessage());
+      return 0;
+    }
+  }
+  
+  @MJI
+  public void setLenient__Z__V (MJIEnv env, int objref, boolean isLenient) {
+    DateFormat f = getInstance(env,objref);
+    f.setLenient(isLenient);
+  }
+  
+  @MJI
+  public int format__Ljava_util_Date_2__Ljava_lang_String_2 (MJIEnv env, int objref, int dateRef) {
+    DateFormat fmt = getInstance(env,objref);
+    if (fmt != null) {
+      Date d = env.getDateObject(dateRef);
+      
+      String s = fmt.format(d);
+      int sref = env.newString(s);
+      return sref;
+    }
+    
+    return MJIEnv.NULL;
+  }
+}