How to accept different date format in post request of Router Function without changing global date format

Question

I have a spring boot application. POST request of Router Function is getting List of Employee objects where date-of-birth in Employee class is expected to be in yyyy-MM-dd format while received json body is having date-of-birth in dd/MM/yyyy format.

As I don't want to change date format at global level, is there any way where I can de-serialize dd/MM/yyyy date-of-birth to yyyy-MM-dd coming via request body.

@JsonFormat(pattern = "yyyy-MM-dd") will not work as it expect date coming in request body should be in yyyy-MM-dd format while in my case date is coming in dd/MM/yyyy format.

EmployeeDto

@Data
@Builder
@NoArgsConstructor
@AllArgsConstructor
@JsonNaming(SnakeCaseStrategy.class)
public class EmployeeDto {

    private String name;
    private String gender;
    private LocalDate dateOfBirth;
}

Router Config

@Bean
public RouterFunction<ServerResponse> employeeRoutes(EmployeeHandler employeeHandler) {
    return route(POST("/employees").and(accept(APPLICATION_JSON)).and(contentType(APPLICATION_JSON)),
                    employeeHandler::saveEmployees);
}

EmployeeHandler

public class EmployeeHandler {

    private final EmployeeService employeeService;

    public Mono<ServerResponse> saveEmployees(ServerRequest serverRequest) {
        return ServerResponse.ok()
                .body(serverRequest.bodyToMono(new ParameterizedTypeReference<List<EmployeeDto>>() {})
                                .flatMap(EmployeeService::saveEmployees)
                                .doOnError(throwable -> log.error("Could not save employees", throwable)),
                        Map.class);
    }
}