How can i register a global custom editor in Spring-MVC?

Question

I use the following custom editor in MANY Spring-MVC controllers according to:

A controller

binder.registerCustomEditor(BigDecimal.class, new CustomN         


        

Answer 1

If you use a annotation based controller (Spring 2.5+), you can use a WebBindingInitializer to register global property editors. Something like

public class GlobalBindingInitializer implements WebBindingInitializer {

    public void initBinder(WebDataBinder binder, WebRequest request) {
        binder.registerCustomEditor(Date.class, new CustomDateEditor(new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy"), true));
    }

}

So in your web application context file, declare

This way all annotation based controller can use any property editor declared in GlobalBindingInitializer.