Register a custom conversion service while retaining the defaults? - spring

Question

In a spring-mvc 3.2.RELEASE project I'd like to use org.springframework.data.repository.support.DomainClassConverter to easily get me entities injected.
It works fine when using this config:
<beans:bean id="conversionService" class="org.springframework.context.support.ConversionServiceFactoryBean" />
<beans:bean id="conversionService"
class="org.springframework.core.convert.support.DefaultConversionService" />
<beans:bean
class="org.springframework.data.repository.support.DomainClassConverter">
<beans:constructor-arg ref="conversionService" />
</beans:bean>
<annotation-driven conversion-service="conversionService" />
But then Spring isn't loading the formatter for dealing with Joda time types and i get "Failed to convert property value of type java.lang.String to required type org.joda.time.LocalDate for property"
Using only
<annotation-driven/>
The Joda conversion works but not the entity injection.
How do you wire it upp so both work?

Answer 1

Not sure if this answers the question, but I came across a similar problem and this is how I resolved it.
I had implemented a custom converter and conversion service using the documentation
<bean id="conversionService"
class="org.springframework.context.support.ConversionServiceFactoryBean">
<property name="converters">
<list>
<bean class="example.MyCustomConverter"/>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
The result was what #NA described - this loses the default joda time support and the following definition in an unrelated controller no longer works
#PathVariable(value="day") #DateTimeFormat(pattern=DATE_FORMAT) LocalDate date
The solutions was instead of using org.springframework.context.support.ConversionServiceFactoryBean, I began using org.springframework.format.support.FormattingConversionServiceFactoryBean.