ParseException; must be caught (Try/Catch) (Java)

Question

I am writing an appointment program and am getting the following errors:

AppointmentNew.java:68: unreported exception java.text.ParseException; must be caught or declared to be thrown
        Date lowDate = sdf.parse(stdin.nextLine());
                                ^
AppointmentNew.java:70: unreported exception java.text.ParseException; must be caught or declared to be thrown
        Date highDate = sdf.parse(stdin.nextLine());  
                                 ^
AppointmentNew.java:77: unreported exception java.text.ParseException; must be caught or declared to be thrown
           Date newCurrentDate = sdf.parse(currentDate); 

I am pretty sure I need to do a try/catch, but I am not sure of how to produce that. The part where I am getting the error is where it asks the user to input a BEGINNING and END date, when they do that the program then prints out the appointments they have made between the two dates.

Here is my code I have :

import java.util.*;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

public class AppointmentNew 
{
public static void main (String[] args)
{
  ArrayList<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();
  Scanner stdin = new Scanner(System.in);
  String choice = "";
  int choiceNum = 0;
  String date = "";
  String descrip = "";
  int type = 0;
  String typeChose = "";

  System.out.println("Welcome to Appointment App!\n");
  System.out.println("\t============================");

  do
  {
     System.out.print("\n\tMake Choice (1: New, 2: Print Range, 3: Print All, 4: Quit) ");
     choice = stdin.nextLine();
     choiceNum = Integer.parseInt(choice);

     if (choiceNum == 1)
     {
        System.out.print("\n\n\tEnter New Appointment Date in mm/dd/yyyy format: ");
        date = stdin.nextLine();

        System.out.print("\n\n\tEnter New Appointment Description: ");
        descrip = stdin.nextLine();

        System.out.print("\n\n\tEnter Type (1 = Once, 2 = Daily, 3 = Monthly): ");
        type = stdin.nextInt();
        stdin.nextLine();

        if (type == 1)
        {
           Once once = new Once(date, descrip);
           typeChose = "One-Time";
        }
        else if (type == 2)
        {
           Daily daily = new Daily(date, descrip);
           typeChose = "Daily";
        }
        else
        {
           Monthly monthly = new Monthly(date, descrip);
           typeChose = "Monthly";
        }
        String stringToAdd = "";
        stringToAdd = (date + " : \"" + descrip + "\", " + typeChose);
        list.add(stringToAdd);

        System.out.println("\n\n\tNew " + typeChose + " Appointment Added for " + date + "\n");
        System.out.println("\t============================\n");


     }

     if (choiceNum == 2)
     {
        System.out.print("\n\n\tEnter START Date in mm/dd/yyyy format: ");
        SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
        Date lowDate = sdf.parse(stdin.nextLine());
        System.out.print("\n\n\tEnter END Date in mm/dd/yyyy format: ");
        Date highDate = sdf.parse(stdin.nextLine());  

        for(int i = 0; i < list.size(); i++)
        {
           int dateSpot = list.get(i).indexOf(" ");
           String currentDate = list.get(i);
           currentDate.substring(0, dateSpot);
           Date newCurrentDate = sdf.parse(currentDate); 

           if (newCurrentDate.compareTo(lowDate) >= 0 && newCurrentDate.compareTo(highDate) <= 0)
           {
              System.out.println("\n\t" + list.get(i));   
           }
        }
     }

     if (choiceNum == 3)
     {
        for(int i = 0; i < list.size(); i++)
        {
           System.out.println("\n\t" + list.get(i));     
        }
     }

  }while (choiceNum != 4);      
 }
}

Answer 1

The format is:

try {
 //The code you are trying to exception handle
}
catch (Exception e) {
 //The handling for the code
}

Put the parse calls in a try block (preferably each in their own), and then specify in the catch block what should happen if the parsing fails.