I've used this with Jackson 2.x and Spring 3.1.2+
servlet-context.xml:
Note that the root element is <beans:beans>, so you may need to remove beans and add mvc to some of these elements depending on your setup.
<annotation-driven>
<message-converters>
<beans:bean
class="org.springframework.http.converter.StringHttpMessageConverter" />
<beans:bean
class="org.springframework.http.converter.ResourceHttpMessageConverter" />
<beans:bean
class="org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter">
<beans:property name="objectMapper" ref="jacksonObjectMapper" />
</beans:bean>
</message-converters>
</annotation-driven>
<beans:bean id="jacksonObjectMapper"
class="au.edu.unimelb.atcom.transfer.json.mappers.JSONMapper" />
au.edu.unimelb.atcom.transfer.json.mappers.JSONMapper.java:
public class JSONMapper extends ObjectMapper {
public JSONMapper() {
SimpleModule module = new SimpleModule("JSONModule", new Version(2, 0, 0, null, null, null));
module.addSerializer(Date.class, new DateSerializer());
module.addDeserializer(Date.class, new DateDeserializer());
// Add more here ...
registerModule(module);
}
}
DateSerializer.java:
public class DateSerializer extends StdSerializer<Date> {
public DateSerializer() {
super(Date.class);
}
@Override
public void serialize(Date date, JsonGenerator json,
SerializerProvider provider) throws IOException,
JsonGenerationException {
// The client side will handle presentation, we just want it accurate
DateFormat df = StdDateFormat.getBlueprintISO8601Format();
String out = df.format(date);
json.writeString(out);
}
}
DateDeserializer.java:
public class DateDeserializer extends StdDeserializer<Date> {
public DateDeserializer() {
super(Date.class);
}
@Override
public Date deserialize(JsonParser json, DeserializationContext context)
throws IOException, JsonProcessingException {
try {
DateFormat df = StdDateFormat.getBlueprintISO8601Format();
return df.parse(json.getText());
} catch (ParseException e) {
return null;
}
}
}