Register converters and converterFactories with annotations in Spring 3

Question

First of all ... Im relatively new in Spring, I use spring 3.x and I DONT LIKE SPRING\'S XML CONFIGURATION FILES ... I dont want for every refactoring I do, to run into XML

Answer 1

I am not sure if this works in Spring 3 but this is the solution for Spring 4:

@Configuration
@EnableWebMvc
class WebMvcContext extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapter {

    @Override
    public void addFormatters(FormatterRegistry registry) {
        registry.addConverter(new DateConverter("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"));
        //registry.addConverter(anotherConverter);
    }
}

DateConverter is a custom converter:

public class DateConverter implements Converter{
    private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(DateConverter.class);
    private final String dateFormat;
    private final SimpleDateFormat formatter;
    public DateConverter(String dateFormatPattern) {
        this.dateFormat = dateFormatPattern;
        this.formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(dateFormatPattern);
    }

    @Override
    public Date convert(String source) {
        Date date = null;
        try {
            date = formatter.parse(source);
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return date;
    }
}