自动填写注册表单字段

Question

I have a jsp page for registration form where there are 2 fields regDate and endDate. RegDate is today's date and endDate is one year after today. Now I want to auto fill these fields in my jsp to store them In MySQL database. I'm using annotation based spring mvc and hibernate jpa annotations spring data etc

Answer 1

For an HTML text field, you can to supply a string representation of a date to the element's value attribute. To get the current date, call java.util.Calendar.getInstance() and use the resulting Calendar 's getTime() method, which returns a java.util.Date object, to determine regDate. Increase the Calendar 's year with add(Calendar.YEAR, 1) and get another Date for next year's date.

Edit: I had broken code before, but this should work.

<%@ page import = "java.util.Calendar" %>
<%@ page import = "java.util.Date" %>
<%! public Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(); %>

And later in the page:

<input type="text" name="regDate" value=<%= "\""+cal.getTime()+"\"" %> />
<% cal.add(Calendar.YEAR, 1); %>
<input type="text" name="endDate" value=<%= "\""+cal.getTime()+"\"" %> />