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Jersey + Jackson JSON date format serialization - how to change the format or use custom JacksonJsonProvider

Asked 2010-12-13T10:59:34.533
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I am using Jersey + Jackson to provide REST JSON services layer for my application. The problem I have is that the default Date serialization format looks like that:

"CreationDate":1292236718456

At first I thought it is a UNIX timestamp... but it is too long for that. My client-side JS library has problems deserializing this format (it supports a bunch of different date formats but not this one I suppose). I want to change the format so that it can be consumable by my library (to ISO for example). How do I do that... I found a piece of code that could help but... where do I put it as I don't control the Jackson serializer instantiation (Jersey does)?

objectMapper.configure(
    SerializationConfig.Feature.WRITE_DATES_AS_TIMESTAMPS, false);

I also found this code for custom JacksonJsonProvider - the question is .. how do I make all my POJO classes use it?

@Provider
public class MessageBodyWriterJSON extends JacksonJsonProvider {

    private static final String DF = "yyyy-MM-dd’T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ";

    @Override
    public boolean isWriteable(Class arg0, Type arg1, Annotation[] arg2,
            MediaType arg3) {
        return super.isWriteable(arg0, arg1, arg2,
                arg3);
    }
    @Override
    public void writeTo(Object target, Class arg1, Type arg2, Annotation[] arg3,
            MediaType arg4, MultivaluedMap arg5, OutputStream outputStream)
            throws IOException, WebApplicationException {
            SimpleDateFormat sdf=new SimpleDateFormat(DF);

        ObjectMapper om = new ObjectMapper();
        om.getDeserializationConfig().setDateFormat(sdf);
        om.getSerializationConfig().setDateFormat(sdf);
        try {
            om.writeValue(outputStream, target);
        } catch (JsonGenerationException e) {
            throw e;
        } catch (JsonMappingException e) {
            throw e;
        } catch (IOException e) {
            th
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Re-write the MessageBodyWriterJSON with this

import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType; 
import javax.ws.rs.ext.Provider; 

import org.codehaus.jackson.jaxrs.JacksonJsonProvider; 
import org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper; 
import org.codehaus.jackson.map.SerializationConfig; 

@Provider 
public class MessageBodyWriterJSON extends JacksonJsonProvider { 
            public MessageBodyWriterJSON (){ 
            } 

        @Override 
            public ObjectMapper locateMapper(Class<?> type, MediaType mediaType) 
        { 
        ObjectMapper mapper = super.locateMapper(type, mediaType); 
        //DateTime in ISO format "2012-04-07T17:00:00.000+0000" instead of 'long' format 
            mapper.configure(SerializationConfig.Feature.WRITE_DATES_AS_TIMESTAMPS, false); 
            return mapper; 
        } 
}
answered 2012-04-05T14:15:54.237

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