Spring MVC, how should forms with date be handled?

Question

MySQL

Good time!
I'm writing a project on Spring MVC, stuck on date parsing. There is a form on the front, for example:

Data is read from it to the controller, in the controller it is written to the database (via dao) using Hibernate. I can’t figure out how to parse the date, because a string is passed, but Date is stored. Explain on your fingers, please, how to do this and what happens in this case, or poke at a suitable example. Examples looked different, understanding did not come. Thank you.
UPD: In general, I will be glad for any information on the interaction of the front with the back, I swim in this topic.

Answer 1

As I understand it, you made the date input in the form of 3 fields ... Usually, they make one field and hang a js lib for date input on this field, for example JQuery Datepicker , and in the controller they do everything that azerphoenix wrote above

Answer 2

https://gerrytan.wordpress.com/2013/05/21/binding-...
I'm learning Spring MVC myself and haven't encountered submitting a Date from a form yet, but check out the link above.
As I understand it, you have @Entity and you need to specify the annotation - @DateTimeFormat Code
example:

@DateTimeFormat(pattern = "dd/MM/yyyy")
private Date dob;

public String addCustomer(@ModelAttribute("addCustomerForm") AddCustomerForm form) {
  // do something with form input ..
}

Or here, another example - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43786382/submi...
to get data from a form withinput{type="date"}