How can I bind a form parameter to a Java 8 Duration using Spring MVC?

Question

I know I can bind a Spring MVC form bean to a LocalDateTime using:

@DateTimeFormat(iso = DateTimeFormat.ISO.DATE_TIME)
private LocalDateTime startTime;

This will convert a String like 2016-01-11T15:05:05.123Z to a LocalDateTime object.

I have found some docs on this here: http://blog.codeleak.pl/2014/06/spring-4-datetimeformat-with-java-8.html

I could not find how to do the same with java.time.Duration. How do I do this?

Answer 1

It seems nothing is needed. It works out of the box (Using Spring Boot 1.3.1 with Spring 4.2.4) with Duration and ZoneId:

private Duration duration;
private ZoneId timeZone;

I tested with "PT15H" string for duration and "Europe/Brussels" for timeZone.