Passing a date as JSON with Spring MVC and Jackson

Question

I have a class with a java.util.Date field that I wish to pass from a client to a Spring controller. The controller returns HTTP 415 whenever I make the request. I have trie

Answer 1

Instead of string, just pass date object from jsp as below.

var date = new Date();
var formData = {'date':date};

And in the dto, make variable of type java.util.Date.