Spring form validation simplify error messages

Question

I am working with my form in spring + thymeleaf and I am wondering if there is a way to simplify an error message for date field as when the value is wrong I get this:

Instead I would like to simply have a text saying: You can't be born yet, or something like that.

Model:

@DateTimeFormat(pattern = "dd.mm.yyyy")
    @Past
    private Date dob;

Form:

Date: <input type="date" th:field="*{dob}" />
<p th:if="${#fields.hasErrors('dob')}" th:errors="*{dob}"></p>

Thanks for any help!

This might help: http://stackoverflow.com/a/27725232/1291150 — Bohuslav Burghardt, Jan 06 '17 at 08:52

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:46

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First of all your current message is not due to the date being in the future but due to the date format is wrong and the date cannot be parsed.

Other than that you can customize error messages like this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/5781678/878361

edited May 23 '17 at 11:46

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answered Jan 06 '17 at 08:14

destan

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but why is date format wrong? I do have it set up as dd.mm.yyyy – Przemek Wojtas Jan 06 '17 at 08:23
Look how you are parsing date from string at java backend and check if you are sending date string with same format (eg: dd-MM-yyyy / yyyy-MM-dd etc.) in HTTP request. – Ramanujan R Jan 06 '17 at 09:03
@PrzemekWojtas see this for date format: http://stackoverflow.com/a/9519493/878361 – destan Jan 06 '17 at 09:48

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 09 '17 at 11:00

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@Past(message="You can't be born yet")

hopefully this you are looking for.

answered Jan 09 '17 at 11:00

Tanmoy Mandal

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score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 06 '17 at 08:28

Model:

 @Temporal(javax.persistence.TemporalType.TIMESTAMP)
 private Date dob;

Form:

Add in taglib and dob field in your form

<%@ taglib prefix="fmt" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/fmt" %>

Add date property

<fmt:formatDate value="${dob}" pattern="dd-MM-yyyy" var="dob"/>
<p th:if="${#fields.hasErrors('dob')}" th:errors="*{dob}"></p>

Spring form validation simplify error messages

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