serialize/deserialize java 8 java.time with Jackso

Question

How do I use Jackson JSON mapper with Java 8 LocalDateTime?

org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonMappingException: Can not instantiate value of type [simple type, class java.time.LocalDateTime] from JSON String; no single-String constructor/factory method (through reference chain: MyDTO["field1"]->SubDTO["date"])

Answer 1

This maven dependency will solve your problem:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackson-datatype-jsr310</artifactId>
    <version>2.6.5</version>
</dependency>

One thing I've struggled is that for ZonedDateTime timezone being changed to GMT during deserialization. Turned out, that by default jackson replaces it with one from context.. To keep zone one must disable this 'feature'

Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder.json()
    .featuresToDisable(DeserializationFeature.ADJUST_DATES_TO_CONTEXT_TIME_ZONE)

Answer 2

You may set this in your application.yml file to resolve Instant time, which is Date API in java8:

spring.jackson.serialization.write-dates-as-timestamps=false

Answer 3

I use this time format: "{birthDate": "2018-05-24T13:56:13Z}" to deserialize from json into java.time.Instant (see screenshot)

Answer 4

This is just an example how to use it in a unit test that I hacked to debug this issue. The key ingredients are

• mapper.registerModule(new JavaTimeModule());
• maven dependency of jackson-datatype-jsr310

Code: import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper; import com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype.jsr310.JavaTimeModule; import org.testng.Assert; import org.testng.annotations.Test;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.time.Instant;

class Mumu implements Serializable {
    private Instant from;
    private String text;

    Mumu(Instant from, String text) {
        this.from = from;
        this.text = text;
    }

    public Mumu() {
    }

    public Instant getFrom() {
        return from;
    }

    public String getText() {
        return text;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return "Mumu{" +
                "from=" + from +
                ", text='" + text + '\'' +
                '}';
    }
}
public class Scratch {


    @Test
    public void JacksonInstant() throws IOException {
        ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
        mapper.registerModule(new JavaTimeModule());

        Mumu before = new Mumu(Instant.now(), "before");
        String jsonInString = mapper.writeValueAsString(before);


        System.out.println("-- BEFORE --");
        System.out.println(before);
        System.out.println(jsonInString);

        Mumu after = mapper.readValue(jsonInString, Mumu.class);
        System.out.println("-- AFTER --");
        System.out.println(after);

        Assert.assertEquals(after.toString(), before.toString());
    }

}