Question

In my JSP page I have a field which is date and when I getting as request.getParameter("dateVal"); gives me

15-Dec-2012 12:21.

I would like to pass this value to my database procedure and insert/update into table.
How can I pass the value as setDate using prepareCall to database?

Thanks

Answer 1

First step would be using SimpleDateFormat to parse it to a fullworthy java.util.Date instance in the controller:

Date date = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm.", Locale.ENGLISH).parse(dateVal);

Then you can just create a java.sql.Date around its time in the database layer:

statement.setDate(1, new java.sql.Date(date.getTime()));

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Unrelated to the concrete problem, please note that java.sql.Date doesn’t remember the time part. If you have actually a DATETIME or TIMESTAMP field in the DB and not a DATE field, then rather use setTimestamp() with a java.sql.Timestamp instead. This way the time part will also be stored.