Parse dates using custom dateformat

[a_beneventi]

Dear Spring forum users, this is my question. I live in Italy and italian date format id dd/mm/yyyy instead of yyyy/dd/mm.

I'm writing a

AbstractCommandController

and in its constructor I've passed

setCommandClass(ParametriEstrazione.class);

.

This is the code of my command class:

public class ParametriEstrazione implements Serializable {

    private Date daFineValidita = null;
    private boolean appartenenze = false;
    private boolean fornitoriNonPreferenziali = false;

    public ParametriEstrazione() {
        /* Intenzionalmente lasciato bianco... */
    }

    public Date getDaFineValidita() {
        return daFineValidita;
    }

    public void setDaFineValidita(Date daFineValidita) {
        this.daFineValidita = daFineValidita;
    }

    public boolean isAppartenenze() {
        return appartenenze;
    }

    public void setAppartenenze(boolean appartenenze) {
        this.appartenenze = appartenenze;
    }

    public boolean isFornitoriNonPreferenziali() {
        return fornitoriNonPreferenziali;
    }

    public void setFornitoriNonPreferenziali(boolean fornitoriNonPreferenziali) {
        this.fornitoriNonPreferenziali = fornitoriNonPreferenziali;
    }

    public String toString() {
        return "ParametriEstrazione{" +
                "daFineValidita=" + daFineValidita +
                ", appartenenze=" + appartenenze +
                ", fornitoriNonPreferenziali=" + fornitoriNonPreferenziali +
                '}';
    }
}

If I use this code the

private Date daFineValidita = null;

property is never populated since, in my web form, the user wrote the date using italian format. How can I write a custom date editor to parse the date the way I want?

Best regards.

Alessandro Beneventi

[laenzlinger]

You could extend the initBinder method for example like this. Check out the Javadoc for CustomDateEditor and initBinder for more information

   protected void initBinder(HttpServletRequest request, 
            ServletRequestDataBinder binder) throws Exception {
        binder.registerCustomEditor(Date.class, 
            new CustomDateEditor(new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy"), false));
    }

[a_beneventi]

Thank you so much: your solution worked perfectly.

Alessandro

You could extend the initBinder method for example like this. Check out the Javadoc for CustomDateEditor and initBinder for more information

   protected void initBinder(HttpServletRequest request, 
            ServletRequestDataBinder binder) throws Exception {
        binder.registerCustomEditor(Date.class, 
            new CustomDateEditor(new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy"), false));
    }