I have a problem with the json serialization of ZonedDateTime
. When converted to json it produces an enormous object and I don't want all that data to be transfered every time. So i tried to format it to ISO but it doesn't work. How can i get it to format?
Here is my Entity Class:
@MappedSuperclass
public abstract class AuditBase {
@Id
@GeneratedValue
private Long id;
@CreatedDate
private ZonedDateTime createdDate;
@LastModifiedDate
private ZonedDateTime lastModifiedDate;
@DateTimeFormat(iso = DateTimeFormat.ISO.DATE_TIME)
public ZonedDateTime getLastModifiedDate() {
return lastModifiedDate;
}
public void setLastModifiedDate(ZonedDateTime lastModifiedDate) {
this.lastModifiedDate = lastModifiedDate;
}
@DateTimeFormat(iso = DateTimeFormat.ISO.DATE_TIME)
public ZonedDateTime getCreatedDate() {
return createdDate;
}
public void setCreatedDate(ZonedDateTime createdDate) {
this.createdDate = createdDate;
}
public Long getId() {
return id;
}
public void setId(Long id) {
this.id = id;
}
@PrePersist
public void prePersist() {
this.createdDate = ZonedDateTime.now();
this.lastModifiedDate = ZonedDateTime.now();
}
@PreUpdate
public void preUpdate() {
this.lastModifiedDate = ZonedDateTime.now();
}
}
I guess that you are using Jackson for json serialization, Jackson now has a module for Java 8 new date time API, https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-datatype-jsr310.
Add this dependency into your pom.xml
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-datatype-jsr310</artifactId>
<version>2.6.0</version>
</dependency>
And this is its usage:
public static void main(String[] args) throws JsonProcessingException {
ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
objectMapper.registerModule(new JavaTimeModule());
System.out.println(objectMapper.writeValueAsString(new Entity()));
}
static class Entity {
ZonedDateTime time = ZonedDateTime.now();
@JsonFormat(shape = JsonFormat.Shape.STRING, pattern = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ")
public ZonedDateTime getTime() {
return time;
}
}
The output is:
{"time":"2015-07-25T23:09:01.795+0700"}
Note : If your Jackson version is 2.4.x use
objectMapper.registerModule(new JSR310Module());
Hope this helps!
Above answer works but if you don't want to touch your existing entity class, following settings will work with ZonedDateTime
:
public static ObjectMapper getMapper() {
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
mapper.registerModule(new JavaTimeModule());
return mapper.configure(DeserializationFeature.READ_DATE_TIMESTAMPS_AS_NANOSECONDS, false)
.configure(SerializationFeature.WRITE_DATE_TIMESTAMPS_AS_NANOSECONDS,false)
.configure(SerializationFeature.WRITE_DATES_AS_TIMESTAMPS,false)
.configure(SerializationFeature.FAIL_ON_EMPTY_BEANS, false)
.setVisibility(mapper.getSerializationConfig()
.getDefaultVisibilityChecker()
.withFieldVisibility(JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.ANY)
.withGetterVisibility(JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.NONE)
.withSetterVisibility(JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.NONE)
.withCreatorVisibility(JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.NONE));
}
Library:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-dataformat-csv</artifactId>
<version>${jackson.dataformat.csv.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-datatype-jsr310</artifactId>
</dependency>