Deserializes string to date.

        :param string: str.
        :return: date.

def __deserialize_date(self, string):
        """
        Deserializes string to date.

        :param string: str.
        :return: date.
        """
        try:
            from dateutil.parser import parse
            return parse(string).date()
        except ImportError:
            return string
        except ValueError:
            raise ApiException(
                status=0,
                reason="Failed to parse `{0}` into a date object".format(string)
            )