Spring Date Editor, Spring Date Property Editor

In this tutorial you will see an example of a Spring Date Editor.

In this tutorial you will see an example of a Spring Date Editor.

Spring Date Editor, Spring Date Property Editor

Passing a date format in the bean property is not allowed and in order to do so you need to declare a CustomDateEditor class for converting the String into java.util.Date properties.

Employee.java

package spring.date.property;

import java.util.Date;

public class Employee {

	private Date joiningDate;
	private String name;

	public Date getJoiningDate() {
		return joiningDate;
	}

	public void setJoiningDate(Date joiningDate) {
		this.joiningDate = joiningDate;
	}

	public String getName() {
		return name;
	}

	public void setName(String name) {
		this.name = name;
	}

}

AppMain.java

package spring.date.property;

import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;

public class AppMain {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(
				new String[] { "context.xml" });
		Employee emp = (Employee) context.getBean("bean1");
		System.out.println(emp.getJoiningDate());
	}
}

context.xml


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"

  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"

  xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd">



<bean id="dateEditor"

     class="org.springframework.beans.propertyeditors.CustomDateEditor">

 

  <constructor-arg>

    <bean class="java.text.SimpleDateFormat">

      <constructor-arg value="yyyy-MM-dd" />

    </bean>

  </constructor-arg>

  <constructor-arg value="true" />

 

</bean>



  <bean id="bean1" class="spring.date.property.Employee">

    <property name="name" value="Rakesh" />

    <property name="joiningDate" value="1/09/2010" />

  </bean>



</beans>

When you run this application it will display message as shown below:

Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT+05:30 2010

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