Given an endpoint with a LocalDate parameter :

public void doSth(@RequestParam @DateTimeFormat(iso = DateTimeFormat.ISO.DATE) LocalDate startDate) {
 ...
}

I must set @DateTimeFormat(iso = DateTimeFormat.ISO.DATE) everywhere I want to bind a LocalDate. This code is boilerplate so I defined a custom editor :

webDataBinder.registerCustomEditor(LocalDate.class, new LocalDateEditor());

But it would be great if spring boot was able to do this natively with a date format in the properties file, and ISO as default.