Newbie Question: setting java.util.date with

[rwells]

I seem to be having a problem with dates, and I can't seem to find the appropriate docs to explain if what I'm trying to do is correct or not.

I have a bean def such as..

<bean id="somebean" class="MyBean">
<property name="someDate">
<value>10/25/2004</value>
</property>
</bean>

This doesn't seem to work and generates...
org.springframework.beans.TypeMismatchException: Failed to convert property value of type [java.lang.String] to required type [java.util.Date]

Should I be using a custom PropertyEditor here for Dates or am I just using a bad string format for the date? Or am going down a completely wrong path?

[Alef Arendsen]

Should I be using a custom PropertyEditor here for Dates

Yes .

Refer to section 3.9 and 3.13 of the reference manual (http://www.springframework.org/docs/reference)

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[rwells]

Are there any typical Date Property editors available?

If i'm understanding the docs correctly PropertyEditors are also used for the the Web data binding to command objects. Is there a best practices example for dealing with dates on forms in an i18n way?

Thanks, for the help.

Roy Wells

[Colin Sampaleanu]

For dates you can actually just use CustomDateEditor, a premade PropertyEditor for dates. The easiest way to register and use it in an application context is via CustomeEditorConfigurer (take a look at the JavaDocs of the latter). When you specify the CustomDateEditor bean, you will just have to provide the date format string.

[rwells]

Thanks Colin,

I think that clears things up a bit. I've located the javadoc on CustomDateEditor and it's comments on BaseCommandController are helpfull.

Roy Wells