Well, what I do on every project is a mix of the options above.
First, add the jsr310 dependency:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-datatype-jsr310</artifactId>
</dependency>
Important detail: put this dependency on the top of your depedencies list. I already see a project where the Localdate error persists even with this dependency on the pom.xml. But changing the order of the depedency the error was gone.
On your /src/main/resources/application.yml file, setup the write-dates-as-timestamps property:
spring:
jackson:
serialization:
write-dates-as-timestamps: false
And create a ObjectMapper bean as this:
@Configuration
public class WebConfigurer {
@Bean
@Primary
public ObjectMapper objectMapper(Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder builder) {
ObjectMapper objectMapper = builder.build();
objectMapper.configure(SerializationFeature.WRITE_DATES_AS_TIMESTAMPS, false);
return objectMapper;
}
}
Following this configuration, the conversion always work on Spring Boot 1.5.x without any error.
Working with Spring AMQP, pay attention if you have a new instance of Jackson2JsonMessageConverter (common thing when creating a SimpleRabbitListenerContainerFactory). You need to pass the ObjectMapper bean to it, like:
Jackson2JsonMessageConverter converter = new Jackson2JsonMessageConverter(objectMapper);
Otherwise, you will receive the same error.