Spring 3.1 JSON date format

Question

I am using annotated Spring 3.1 MVC code (spring-mvc) and when i send date object through the @RequestBody the date is showing up as numeric. This is my controller

Answer 1

Here is a more standard way to configure this, using ISO8601 dates, which is what I would recommend for your API.

Here is additional documentation:

• Jackson FAQ
• Spring's Jackson2ObjectMapperFactoryBean