Question

Is it possible to handle different date format in a Spring MVC controller?

I know that setting something like this

@InitBinder
protected void initBinder(WebDataBinder binder) {
    SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
    binder.registerCustomEditor(Date.class, new CustomDateEditor(
            dateFormat, false));
}

I can handle dd/MM/yyyy format, but what if i want to parse also dates in yyyyMMddhhmmss format? Should I add multiple CustomDateEditors in my controller?

Answer 1

If at a time you receive only one format of date, then you could simply create one instance of DateFormat based on format

for example

Decide the format based on the input

DateFormat df = null;
if(recievedDate.indexOf("//")!=-1){
    df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy")
}else{
    df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMddhhmmss")
}