Spring ConversionService adding Converters

Question

I searched for the below problem, but couldn't find an answer.

I want to use spring's conversion service by writing my custom converter that implements org.springframework.core.convert.converter.Converter.

Then i add my custom converter as below:

<bean id="conversionService" class="org.springframework.context.support.ConversionServiceFactoryBean">
    <property name="converters">
        <list>
            <bean id="StringToLoggerConverter" class="com.citi.spring.converter.LoggerConverter" />
       </list>
   </property>
</bean>

When doing the above my application initialization fails, because i am overriding bean conversionService and registering only my custom converter.

How can i not override the conversionService and only add my custom converter to the list of converters, at the same time keeping the existing ones?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

For anyone who stumbles on this now via a google search or similar 2+ years after the question was originally posted, adding converters has been made much easier through Java Config: WebMvcConfigurerAdapter provides the addFormatters(FormatterRegistry) method that can be used to specify additional custom converters.