I've got some JSON that has timestamps in seconds (i.e. a Unix timestamp):
{"foo":"bar","timestamp":1386280997}
Asking Jackson to deserialize this into an object with a DateTime field for the timestamp results in 1970-01-17T01:11:25.983Z
, a time shortly after the epoch because Jackson is assuming it to be in milliseconds. Aside from ripping apart the JSON and adding some zeros, how might I get Jackson to understand the seconds timestamp?
I wrote a custom deserializer to handle timestamps in seconds (Groovy syntax).
class UnixTimestampDeserializer extends JsonDeserializer<DateTime> {
Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(UnixTimestampDeserializer.class)
@Override
DateTime deserialize(JsonParser jp, DeserializationContext ctxt) throws IOException, JsonProcessingException {
String timestamp = jp.getText().trim()
try {
return new DateTime(Long.valueOf(timestamp + '000'))
} catch (NumberFormatException e) {
logger.warn('Unable to deserialize timestamp: ' + timestamp, e)
return null
}
}
}
And then I annotated my POGO to use that for the timestamp:
class TimestampThing {
@JsonDeserialize(using = UnixTimestampDeserializer.class)
DateTime timestamp
@JsonCreator
public TimestampThing(@JsonProperty('timestamp') DateTime timestamp) {
this.timestamp = timestamp
}
}
@JsonFormat(shape=JsonFormat.Shape.STRING, pattern="s")
public Date timestamp;
edit: vivek-kothari suggestion
@JsonFormat(shape=JsonFormat.Shape.NUMBER, pattern="s")
public Timestamp timestamp;
A very similar approach to that of @DrewStephens's which uses the Java SE TimeUnit
API (introduced in JDK1.5
) instead of plain String concatenation and is thus (arguably) a little bit cleaner and more expressive:
public class UnixTimestampDeserializer extends JsonDeserializer<Date> {
@Override
public Date deserialize(JsonParser parser, DeserializationContext context)
throws IOException, JsonProcessingException {
String unixTimestamp = parser.getText().trim();
return new Date(TimeUnit.SECONDS.toMillis(Long.valueOf(unixTimestamp)));
}
}
Specifying your custom deserializer (UnixTimestampDeserializer
) on the affected Date
field(s):
@JsonDeserialize(using = UnixTimestampDeserializer.class)
private Date updatedAt;