How do I get DateTimeFormat working with Spring MVC?

Question

I have a controller method that looks like this: ``` @RequestMapping(headers = "Accept=application/json;charset=utf-8", value = "/test", method = RequestMethod.GET) @ResponseBody public Blah test(@ModelAttribute MyObject parms, HttpServletRequest request) throws Exception { // blah blah } ``` MyOBject looks like this: ``` public class MyObject{ @DateTimeFormat(iso = DateTimeFormat.ISO.DATE_TIME) private Calendar someDate; // blah blah setters getters ``` When I call this method via browser like so: ``` http://localhost:8080/blah/test?someDate=2011-07-11T21%3A28%3A59.564%2B01%3A00 ``` I am getting Error 400 - Bad Request. I kept trying with various different values for someDate (always using a URL encoder to encode the special chars) and nothing works. All the ones I tried (pre-URL encoding): 2000-10-31 01:30:00.000-05:00 2011-07-11T21:28:59.564+01:00 2014-04-23T13:49:28.600Z I know dates dont match I am merely trying to get Spring to parse this damn date for me into that Calendar obje…

Accepted Answer

This

```
'2011-07-11T21:28:59.564+01:00'
```

value is incorrect since the expected format is

```
yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ
```

you can't have a `:` inside the `+0100` timezone offset.

You must be url encoding it wrong.

How do I get DateTimeFormat working with Spring MVC?

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