I want to change the default error messages being thrown by Spring.
I basically have this form. Format of the date should follow "mm/dd/yyyy"
<p>
<label class="label">Start Date</label>
<form:input path="dteStartDate" />
<form:errors path="dteStartDate"/>
</p>
Everything works fine, but during binding I get this message added by the form:error tag.
Failed to convert property value of type [java.lang.String] to required type [java.util.Date] for property dteStartDate; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException:
Could not parse date: Unparseable date: "2010/11/19"
Can I customize this? So that instead of these I could show something like this:
Invalid Date Format. Format should be "mm/dd/yyyy"
This is Spring MVC 2.5.
You need to define a MessageSource
to resolve error code to the message. Error codes are built as described here (so you'll have typeMismatch.<objectName>.dteStartDate
).