How to use CustomDateEditor and DateTimeFormat at the same time in spring?

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 import org.springframework.format.annotation.DateTimeFormat; @DateTimeFormat(pattern = "yyyy-MM-dd") private Date etd; @DateTimeFormat(pattern = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss") private Date eta;<\/code><\/pre>
 This code works fine. But I found that an exception is thrown when the time is an empty string, so I add this:

Answer 1

I don't think that you can use both together, as only one of them will be picked by the system, but what you can do is extend standard behavior and add empty string processing. As I like the declarative way of parsing strings based on the @DateTimeFormat<\/code> annotation I will share the code which shows how easy it is to extend default functionality. So to start with Spring uses AnnotationFormatterFactory<\/code> s that create formatters to format and parse values of fields annotated with a particular annotation. The @DateTimeFormat<\/code> annotation has several AnnotationFormatterFactory<\/code> s but one which parses and formats the java.util.Date<\/code> s is DateTimeFormatAnnotationFormatterFactory<\/code> , so what we need to do is just override it add our custom handling and register the formatter. Its is pretty straightforward to do that via WebMvcConfigurationSupport<\/code> .

@Configuration
public class WebConfig extends WebMvcConfigurationSupport {

    @Override
    protected void addFormatters(FormatterRegistry registry) {
        registry.addFormatterForFieldAnnotation(new DateTimeFormatAnnotationFormatterFactory(){
            @Override
            public Parser<?> getParser(DateTimeFormat annotation, Class<?> fieldType) {
                var defaultParser = super.getParser(annotation, fieldType);
                return (Parser<Object>) (text, locale) -> {
                    // if the text value is empty just return null and do not try to parse
                    if(!StringUtils.hasText(text)){
                        return null;
                    }
                    return defaultParser.parse(text, locale);
                };
            }
        });
    }

}

Answer 2

Since Spring framework 5.3.5<\/a> , @DateTimeFormat<\/code> supports defining a list of fallback patterns for parsing the date time if it fails to parse with the primary pattern. That means you could simply do :

@DateTimeFormat(pattern = "yyyy-MM-dd")
private Date etd;

@DateTimeFormat(pattern = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss",fallbackPatterns = "yyyy-MM-dd")
private Date eta;

Answer 3

Date<\/code> class is very much outdated (pun intended). Please switch to package java.time<\/code> and use one of the implementations of Temporal<\/a> interface. In your case you should look at LocalDate<\/a> and LocalDateTime<\/a> classes. Then your @DateTimeFormat<\/code> will work correctly

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