Spring MVC custom conversion error message

Question

Following is (a part of) my JSP:

<fieldset data-role="fieldcontain">
  <label id="labelForDob" for="dob">Date of birth (dd/mm/yyyy)</label>
  <form:input path="dob" cssErrorClass="errorField" />
  <form:errors path="dob" cssClass="errorMessage" />
</fieldset>

Following is (a part of) my form bean:

    @DateTimeFormat(pattern = "dd/MM/yyyy")
    @NotNull
    @Past(message = "enter a past date in the format of dd/mm/yyyy")
    private Date dob;

When I enter a string in the wrong format (that cannot be converted to Date), conversion error message is displayed (see figure bellow):

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How can I customise this message? (Something like "Your input cannot be converted to a date")

Spring 2.x solution http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3270316/customize-spring-error-message — CupawnTae, Sep 08 '14 at 14:00
Possible duplicate of [Customize Spring Error Message](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3270316/customize-spring-error-message) — Nicolas, Dec 07 '18 at 14:15

score -2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 08 '14 at 13:55

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Their are four options you can adopt:

Instead of using the input text for the date. Always use the date type field for the date.You can use
< input type="date" text="dateOfBirth" pattern="dd/MM/yyyy">< /input> So that use will have an option to select a date from calendar only.
You can write a javascript on the blur event for the input box so that when user will leave that field you can prompt him to enter current date.
You can have regular expression in javascript to check the pattern.
You can put regular expression in input type itself like: pattern="\d{1,2}/\d{1,2}/\d{4}"

answered Sep 08 '14 at 13:55

Kapil Dave

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This is a good suggestion but I fail to see how it answers the original question. – Praba Sep 08 '14 at 14:05
This answer does not address the original question at all... – RRoman Dec 15 '21 at 02:08

Spring MVC custom conversion error message

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