Spring MVC HTTP Status 400 - Bad Request

Question

I am trying to run a project in Spring MVC. Here is the code

index.jsp

<%@page contentType=\"text/html\" pageEncoding=\"UTF-8\"%>
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Answer 1

You must bind the Date when you submit a HTTP POST. Spring does not know that this is a Date, it sees it as a String.

Add this:

@InitBinder
public void initBinder(WebDataBinder binder) {
    SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
    sdf.setLenient(true);
    binder.registerCustomEditor(Date.class, new CustomDateEditor(sdf, true));
}

To your controller.