There is a field on webpage
<form:input id="startDate" onkeydown="return false;" readonly="readonly" path = "startDate"/>
And there is an anchor tag
<a id="excelDownload" target ="reportExcel" href ="downloadFIReport.do?startDate='start_date_goes_here'">Download As Excel</a>
How can i get "start_date_goes_here".
This date must be the date while page load ,not the one changed after page load.
Do i have to add this date using model.addAttribute("") ? Or there is some another way ?
Use can use CustomDateEditor. First, the CustomDateEditor is created, that converts a String to java.util.Date. The format that will be used to parse the String to Date is also defined inside the CustomDateEditor bean definition.
<bean id="dateEditor"
class="org.springframework.beans.propertyeditors.CustomDateEditor">
<constructor-arg>
<bean class="java.text.SimpleDateFormat">
<constructor-arg value="yyyy-MM-dd-HH:mm:ss;z" />
</bean>
</constructor-arg>
<constructor-arg value="true" />
</bean>
Then the CustomEditorConfigurer is created to register the CustomDateEditor. It has a property named customEditors, that consists of a map with a java.util.Date key and a value that is a reference to the CustomDateEditor bean.
<bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.CustomEditorConfigurer">
<property name="customEditors">
<map>
<entry key="java.util.Date">
<ref local="dateEditor" />
</entry>
</map>
</property>
</bean>
Now in initBinder method use it
binder.registerCustomEditor(Date.class,dateEditor);
super.initBinder(request, binder);
UPDATE: Or if you just hate that configuration in xml file, you can directly register CustomDateEditor like this in InitBinder. This method should be written in controller.:
@InitBinder
public void initBinder( WebDataBinder binder){
SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormat=new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
simpleDateFormat.setLenient(false);
binder.registerCustomEditor( Date.class, new CustomDateEditor( simpleDateFormat,false));
}
In spring MVC the model is where the controller puts anything that will be used by the view.
As you want to use the date :
the simpler way it to put in in the model, and directly use it in the form.
Controller
DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd");
@RequestMapping(...)
public String show_the_view(Model model) {
// get and format the date
model.addAttribute("startdate", dateFormat.format(new Date());
...
return "view_name";
}
View :
<a id="excelDownload" target ="reportExcel"
href ="downloadFIReport.do?startDate='${startdate}'">Download As Excel</a>
EDIT
With the code you gave in comment (and that you should have given directly in question ...), provided fiReportSearchInput.getStartDate() is a java.util.Date , it would give :
@RequestMapping(value = "downloadFIReport.do", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public void downloadFIBill(ModelMap model,
@ModelAttribute("SpringWeb") FIReportSearchInput fiReportSearchInput,
HttpServletResponse response) {
System.out.println(fiReportSearchInput.getStartDate() + " "
+ fiReportSearchInput.getEndDate());
ModelMap.addAttribute("startdate",
dateFormat.format(fiReportSearchInput.getStartDate());
...
}
