HowTo: Bind an input field to a Date property using Spring's SimpleFormController

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Read the article on my new blog under http://blog.js-development.com/2009/04/howto-bind-input-field-to-date-property.html

If you're using the Spring SimpleFormController for binding your Java bean object to the UI, you may come across the case where you want to create a binding between an input field (where the user inputs a date) and your bean's Date property:

<form:input path="expiryDate" size="15" />

You will notice that you cannot just do it as normal, but to let your SimpleFormController accept the binding, you have to override the following method:

@Override
protected void initBinder(PortletRequest request, PortletRequestDataBinder binder) throws Exception {
    DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
    df.setLenient(false);
    binder.registerCustomEditor(Date.class, new CustomDateEditor(df, true));

    super.initBinder(request,binder);
}

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