Passing date to request param in Spring MVC

Question

I am new to Spring MVC - and I am trying to pass a date from my javascript as a request Param

My controller looks something like -

public @ResponseB         


        

Answer 1

Use @DateTimeFormat(pattern="yyyy-MM-dd") where yyyy is year, MM is month and dd is date

public @ResponseBody List loadStudents(@DateTimeFormat(pattern="yyyy-MM-dd") Date birthDay) {
    ...
}