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 * Abstract implementation for Date coercion classes. If the value is not a

 * {@link Date}, it will use the {@link Object#toString()} method to convert the

 * resulting {@link String} to a Date object.

 * @author gvSIG Team

 * @version $Id$

 */

    }

    public Object coerce(Object value, Locale locale) throws CoercionException {

    	if( value == null ) {

    		return null;

    	}

        if (!(value instanceof Date)) {

            String valueStr = value.toString();

            if( valueStr == null ) {

                return null;

            if( valueStr.length()==0 ) {

                return null;

            }

            try {

                Date d = dateFormatter.parse(valueStr);

                if (d == null) {

    /**

     * Returns the {@link DateFormat} to apply when the value to coerce is not

     * of Date type and it will be parsed as String.

     * @return the {@link DateFormat} to apply to parse the value to coerce as

     *         {@link String}

     */

     * Returns the name of the Date type being coerced. Ex: Date, DateTime,

     * Time. Only used for description when an error is produced when coercing

     * the value.

     * @return the name of the Date type being coerced

     */

    protected abstract String getDateType();