Reputation: 187379
In my Grails app, I need to bind a request parameter to a Date
field of a command object. In order to perform the String-to-Date conversion, one needs to register an appropriate PropertyEditor in grails-app\conf\spring\resources.groovy
I've added the following bean definiton:
import org.springframework.beans.propertyeditors.CustomDateEditor
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat
beans = {
paramDateEditor(CustomDateEditor, new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yy"), true) {}
}
But I'm still getting an error:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Could not parse date: Unparseable date: "04/01/99"]
I think there's probably just something wrong with the way I've defined the bean, but I've no idea what?
Upvotes: 3
Views: 2905
Reputation: 11035
The piece you are missing is registering of the new property editor. The following worked for me when I upgraded to Grails 1.1 and had to bind dates in the MM/dd/yyyy format.
beans = {
customPropertyEditorRegistrar(util.CustomPropertyEditorRegistrar)
}
package util
import java.util.Date
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat
import org.springframework.beans.propertyeditors.CustomDateEditor
import org.springframework.beans.PropertyEditorRegistrar
import org.springframework.beans.PropertyEditorRegistry
public class CustomPropertyEditorRegistrar implements PropertyEditorRegistrar {
public void registerCustomEditors(PropertyEditorRegistry registry) {
registry.registerCustomEditor(Date.class, new CustomDateEditor(new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yy"), true));
}
}
Upvotes: 8