How do I represent dates without the timezone using Apache CXF?

Question

I have a WSDL that specifies an element\'s type to be xs:date.

When I use Apache CXF to generate the Java classes, it renders the variable as an javax.xml.datatype.XMLGr

Answer 1

I found my comment above from 2012 and now I feel compelled to add an answer. I'm making some changes to a web service that, unfortunately, must continue to run on Java 6. I was asked to suppress the timezone/offset portion of all date and time fields in my XML responses. I did this with a JAXB binding file and 3 pairs of adapter methods for date, time and datetime XML types. Note that my solution uses the JodaTime library.

Here is my JAXB 2.1 binding file:

Here is my Java 6 compatible utility class with the adapter methods:

package com.jimtough.jaxb;

import java.util.Date;

import javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter;

import org.joda.time.DateTime;
import org.joda.time.LocalTime;
import org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
import org.joda.time.format.ISODateTimeFormat;

/**
 * My bizarrely named 'condapter' is a blend of the Java {@code DatatypeConverter}
 * and the Apache CXF {@code DataTypeAdapter} that provides Jodatime {@code DateTime}
 * support instead of {@code java.util.Date}.
 * 
 * @author jtough
 */
public class DataTypeCondapter {

    private DataTypeCondapter() {}

    // Jim Tough - 2017-02-22
    // JodaTime formatters claim to be threadsafe
    private static final DateTimeFormatter DTF_DATE = ISODateTimeFormat.date();
    private static final DateTimeFormatter DTF_DATETIME = ISODateTimeFormat.dateHourMinuteSecondMillis();
    private static final DateTimeFormatter DTF_TIME = ISODateTimeFormat.hourMinuteSecondMillis();

    public static DateTime parseDate(String s) {
        if (s == null) {
            return null;
        }
        Date date = DatatypeConverter.parseDate(s).getTime();
        return new DateTime(date);
    }

    public static String printDate(DateTime dt) {
        if (dt == null) {
            return null;
        }
        return DTF_DATE.print(dt);
    }

    public static LocalTime parseTime(String s) {
        if (s == null) {
            return null;
        }
        Date date = DatatypeConverter.parseTime(s).getTime();
        DateTime dt = new DateTime(date);
        return dt.toLocalTime();
    }

    public static String printTime(LocalTime lt) {
        if (lt == null) {
            return null;
        }
        return DTF_TIME.print(lt);
    }

    public static DateTime parseDateTime(String s) {
        if (s == null) {
            return null;
        }
        Date date = DatatypeConverter.parseDateTime(s).getTime();
        return new DateTime(date);
    }

    public static String printDateTime(DateTime dt) {
        if (dt == null) {
            return null;
        }
        return DTF_DATETIME.print(dt);
    }

}