Merge pull request #14692 from calixteman/14672

[JS] - Parse a date in using the given format first and then try the default date parser

src/scripting_api/aform.js

@@ -53,16 +53,19 @@ class AForm {
   }
 
   _parseDate(cFormat, cDate) {
-    const ddate = Date.parse(cDate);
+    let date = null;
-    if (isNaN(ddate)) {
+    try {
-      try {
+      date = this._util.scand(cFormat, cDate);
-        return this._util.scand(cFormat, cDate);
+    } catch (error) {}
-      } catch (error) {
+    if (!date) {
-        return null;
+      date = Date.parse(cDate);
+      if (isNaN(date)) {
+        date = null;
+      } else {
+        date = new Date(date);
       }
-    } else {
-      return new Date(ddate);
     }
+    return date;
   }
 
   AFMergeChange(event = globalThis.event) {

src/scripting_api/util.js

@@ -373,6 +373,10 @@ class Util extends PDFObject {
   }
 
   scand(cFormat, cDate) {
+    if (typeof cDate !== "string") {
+      return new Date(cDate);
+    }
+
     if (cDate === "") {
       return new Date();
     }
@@ -536,15 +540,15 @@ class Util extends PDFObject {
 
     const [re, actions] = this._scandCache.get(cFormat);
 
-    const matches = new RegExp(re, "g").exec(cDate);
+    const matches = new RegExp(`^${re}$`, "g").exec(cDate);
     if (!matches || matches.length !== actions.length + 1) {
       return null;
     }
 
     const data = {
-      year: 0,
+      year: 2000,
       month: 0,
-      day: 0,
+      day: 1,
       hours: 0,
       minutes: 0,
       seconds: 0,

test/unit/scripting_spec.js

@@ -598,6 +598,21 @@ describe("Scripting", function () {
       });
     });
 
+    describe("AFParseDateEx", function () {
+      it("should parse a date with a format", async () => {
+        const check = async (date, format, expected) => {
+          const value = await myeval(
+            `AFParseDateEx("${date}", "${format}").toISOString()`
+          );
+          expect(value).toEqual(new Date(expected).toISOString());
+        };
+
+        await check("05", "dd", "2000/01/05");
+        await check("12", "mm", "2000/12/01");
+        await check("2022", "yyyy", "2022/01/01");
+      });
+    });
+
     describe("AFExtractNums", function () {
       it("should extract numbers", async () => {
         let value = await myeval(`AFExtractNums("123 456 789")`);