Exception shouldn't happen when pasting an entry with a publication date-range of form yyyy-yyyy

.gitignore

@@ -472,3 +472,5 @@ lib/ojdbc.jar
 
 # do not ignore JabRef icons (they are ignored by the macos setting above)
 !src/main/java/org/jabref/gui/icon
+
+JabRef_Main.xml

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ Note that this project **does not** adhere to [Semantic Versioning](http://semve
 
 ### Fixed
 
+- We fixed an issue where an exception occurred when pasting an entry with a publication date-range of the form 1910/1917 [#7864](https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/7864)
 - We fixed an issue where an exception occured when a preview style was edited and afterwards another preview style selected. [#8280](https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/8280)
 - We fixed an issue where the actions to move a file to a directory were incorrectly disabled. [#7908](https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/7908)
 - We fixed an issue where an exception occurred when a linked online file was edited in the entry editor [#8008](https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/8008)

src/main/java/org/jabref/model/entry/Date.java

@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ public class Date {
     }
 
     private final TemporalAccessor date;
+    private final TemporalAccessor endDate;
 
     public Date(int year, int month, int dayOfMonth) {
         this(LocalDate.of(year, month, dayOfMonth));
@@ -57,15 +58,48 @@ public Date(int year) {
 
     public Date(TemporalAccessor date) {
         this.date = date;
+        endDate = null;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * CS427 Issue link: https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/7864
+     * Creates a Date from date and endDate.
+     *
+     * @param date the start date
+     * @param endDate the start date
+     */
+    public Date(TemporalAccessor date, TemporalAccessor endDate) {
+        this.date = date;
+        this.endDate = endDate;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Creates a Date from date and endDate.
+     * CS427 Issue link: https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/7864
+     *
+     * @param dateString the string to extract the date information
+     * @throws DateTimeParseException if dataString is mal-formatted
+     */
     public static Optional<Date> parse(String dateString) {
         Objects.requireNonNull(dateString);
 
         if (dateString.isEmpty()) {
             return Optional.empty();
         }
 
+        // if dateString has format of uuuu/uuuu, treat as date range
+        if (dateString.matches("[0-9]{4}/[0-9]{4}")) {
+            try {
+                String[] strDates = dateString.split("/");
+                TemporalAccessor parsedDate = SIMPLE_DATE_FORMATS.parse(strDates[0]);
+                TemporalAccessor parsedEndDate = SIMPLE_DATE_FORMATS.parse(strDates[1]);
+                return Optional.of(new Date(parsedDate, parsedEndDate));
+            } catch (DateTimeParseException ignored) {
+                return Optional.empty();
+            }
+
+        }
+
         try {
             TemporalAccessor parsedDate = SIMPLE_DATE_FORMATS.parse(dateString);
             return Optional.of(new Date(parsedDate));

src/test/java/org/jabref/model/entry/DateTest.java

@@ -16,6 +16,12 @@
 
 class DateTest {
 
+    @Test
+    void parseCorrectlyYearRangeDate() throws Exception {
+        Date expectedDataRange = new Date(Year.of(2014), Year.of(2017));
+        assertEquals(Optional.of(expectedDataRange), Date.parse("2014/2017"));
+    }
+
     @Test
     void parseCorrectlyDayMonthYearDate() throws Exception {
         Date expected = new Date(LocalDate.of(2014, 6, 19));