Setting default DateTimeFormat Annotation in Spring

Question

I know that a DateTimeFormat annotation can be defined on Date properties of a Model class in Spring but is there any way of defining a default dateTimeFormat annotation for

Answer 1

As kuhajeyan mentioned, you can use binder, but not on a controller, rather on controller advice, that will apply it globally:

@ControllerAdvice
public class GlobalDateBinder {

 /* Initialize a global InitBinder for dates*/

 @InitBinder
 public void binder(WebDataBinder binder) {
  // here you can use kuhajeyan's code
 }
}