HTTPCLIENT-2319 / Updated the parseDate method to solely catch DateTi…

…meException, streamlining error handling for date parsing and conversion. This change ensures comprehensive management of parsing issues, including those due to absent time-zone information, aligning with our documentation that the method should return null when conversion to Instant is not feasible. (#551)

httpclient5/src/main/java/org/apache/hc/client5/http/utils/DateUtils.java

@@ -27,13 +27,13 @@
 
 package org.apache.hc.client5.http.utils;
 
+import java.time.DateTimeException;
 import java.time.Instant;
 import java.time.LocalDateTime;
 import java.time.ZoneId;
 import java.time.ZoneOffset;
 import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
 import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatterBuilder;
-import java.time.format.DateTimeParseException;
 import java.util.Date;
 import java.util.Locale;
 import java.util.TimeZone;
@@ -145,6 +145,8 @@ public static LocalDateTime toUTC(final Date date) {
 
     /**
      * Parses the date value using the given date/time formats.
+     * <p>This method can handle strings without time-zone information by failing gracefully, in which case
+     * it returns {@code null}.</p>
      *
      * @param dateValue the instant value to parse
      * @param dateFormatters the date/time formats to use
@@ -165,7 +167,7 @@ public static Instant parseDate(final String dateValue, final DateTimeFormatter.
         for (final DateTimeFormatter dateFormatter : dateFormatters) {
             try {
                 return Instant.from(dateFormatter.parse(v));
-            } catch (final DateTimeParseException ignore) {
+            } catch (final DateTimeException ignore) {
             }
         }
         return null;

httpclient5/src/test/java/org/apache/hc/client5/http/utils/TestDateUtils.java

@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ public void testDateParseMessage() throws Exception {
     @Test
     public void testMalformedDate() {
         Assertions.assertNull(DateUtils.parseDate("Fri, 14 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT", new DateTimeFormatter[] {}));
+        Assertions.assertNull(DateUtils.parseDate("Thu Feb 22 17:20:18 2024", new DateTimeFormatter[] {}));
     }
 
     @Test