Spring REST : How to validate Date passed in request body

Question

I am working on a Spring REST application.
In that I have a REST Controller like this

@RequestMapping(value = "/patient", method = RequestMethod.POST)
        public BloodPressureDTO store(@RequestBody BloodPressureDTO bloodPressureDto) {

      .........
}

The BloodPressureDTO object has a Date object inside it.
I need to validate the Date object.

If the JSON that is posted in the request has an invalid date format, then I would like to handle that situation.

possible duplicate http://stackoverflow.com/q/9352891/1221734 — George Karanikas, Jun 29 '16 at 17:34

score -1 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 29 '16 at 16:54

Good news is that you are already using Spring framework which has the flexibility to be configured with both JSR-303, JSR-349 bean validation or by implementing spring Validator interface to meet your requirements.

You can add @Valid @RequestBody to controller. The @Valid annotation is part of java bean validation API and is not a spring-specific construct. By adding it to the input parameter within a method in @Controller we will trigger validation.

You can do @NotNull etc simply for but for range, format, you need to extend the Validator & create something like @InDateRange

You can check date validation specific code here.

I use @valid, annotation to validate a lot of things, my question is how to validate Date? — Soumitri Pattnaik, Jun 29 '16 at 15:13

Spring REST : How to validate Date passed in request body

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