Spring MVC - Binding a Date Field

Question

For request parameters representing string, number, and boolean values, the Spring MVC container can bind them to typed properties out of the box.

How do you have th

Answer 1

In complement to Arthur's very complete answer : in the case of a simple Date field, you don't have to implement the whole PropertyEditor. You can just use a CustomDateEditor to which you simply pass the date format to use :

//put this in your Controller 
//(if you have a superclass for your controllers 
//and want to use the same date format throughout the app, put it there)
@InitBinder
private void dateBinder(WebDataBinder binder) {
            //The date format to parse or output your dates
    SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");
            //Create a new CustomDateEditor
    CustomDateEditor editor = new CustomDateEditor(dateFormat, true);
            //Register it as custom editor for the Date type
    binder.registerCustomEditor(Date.class, editor);
}