How to accept Date params in a GET request to Spring MVC Controller?

Ok, I solved it. Writing it for anyone who might be tired after a full day of non-stop coding & miss such a silly thing.

@RequestMapping(value="/fetch" , method=RequestMethod.GET)
    public @ResponseBody String fetchResult(@RequestParam("from") @DateTimeFormat(pattern="yyyy-MM-dd") Date fromDate) {
        //Content goes here
    }

Yes, it's simple. Just add the DateTimeFormat annotation.

This is what I did to get formatted date from front end

  @RequestMapping(value = "/{dateString}", method = RequestMethod.GET)
  @ResponseBody
  public HttpStatus getSomething(@PathVariable @DateTimeFormat(iso = DateTimeFormat.ISO.DATE) String dateString) {
   return OK;
  }

You can use it to get what you want.

... or you can do it the right way and have a coherent rule for serialisation/deserialisation of dates all across your application. put this in application.properties:

spring.mvc.date-format=yyyy-MM-dd