BeanWrapperFieldSetMapper not working for Dates

[pgondi]

I am reading a fixed length file. One of the fields in the line is a date.
So I am using FlatFileItemReader with FixedLengthTokenizer and BeanWrapperFieldSetMapper. I also added property editors. Here is my Spring configuration:

<bean id="customEditorConfigurer" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.CustomEditorConfigurer">
	<property name="customEditors">
		<map>
			<entry key="org.springframework.batch.item.file.transform.Range[]">
				<bean class="org.springframework.batch.item.file.transform.RangeArrayPropertyEditor" />
			</entry>
			<entry key="java.util.Date">
				<bean class="org.springframework.beans.propertyeditors.CustomDateEditor">
					<constructor-arg>
						<bean class="java.text.SimpleDateFormat">
							<constructor-arg value="MMddyyyy" />
						</bean>
					</constructor-arg>
					<constructor-arg value="true" />
				</bean>
			</entry>
		</map>
	</property>
</bean>

<bean id="myReader" class="org.springframework.batch.item.file.FlatFileItemReader">
	<property name="resource" value="file:/mydocs/person.txt" />
	<property name="comments" value="Header, 1.0, END" />
	<property name="lineMapper">
		<bean class="org.springframework.batch.item.file.mapping.DefaultLineMapper">
			<property name="lineTokenizer">
				<bean class="org.springframework.batch.item.file.transform.FixedLengthTokenizer">
					<property name="names" value="id,name,dob,comments" />
					<property name="columns" value="1-4,5-8,9-16,17-" />
				</bean>
			</property>
			<property name="fieldSetMapper">
				<bean class="org.springframework.batch.item.file.mapping.BeanWrapperFieldSetMapper">
					<property name="targetType" value="com.Person" />
				</bean>
			</property>
		</bean>
	</property>
</bean>

With above configuration, I am getting following exception:

org.springframework.batch.item.file.mapping.Bindin gException:Failed to convert property value of type [java.lang.String]
to required type [java.util.Date] for property 'dob'; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException:
Cannot convert value of type [java.lang.String] to required type [java.util.Date] for property 'dob':
no matching editors or conversion strategy found

Do I need to set customEditors property for BeanWrapperFieldSetMapper? If that is the case how RangeArrayPropertyEditor is working?

Also I set the 'comments' property for FlatFileItemReader but it does not have any affect. Can someone tell me how it works? TIA.

[pgondi]

I moved customEditors property from customEditorConfigurer to BeanWrapperFieldSetMapper and it worked fine.

I still need to find why comments are not working.

[pgondi]

Comments are also working. I should set them in a list instead of a String with commas.

[aki86]

hi pgondi, i'm having the same problem. did you get it solved? can you please post your final configuration?

thanks!