Set MongoDb converter programmatically

Question

I\'m trying to use a custom converter with spring-data-mongodb. I want to create it programmatically, but I get the following error:

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Answer 1

This answer may be a little late for the OP, but I just ran into the same problem today and found a solution...

To set it up programmatically, you need to call MongoMappingConverter.afterPropertiesSet() before you use it. I realized this from reading the code for MongoTemplate.getDefaultMongoConverter(MongoDbFactory).

Here's an example:

MappingMongoConverter converter = new MappingMongoConverter(mongoDbFactory, context);
converter.setTypeMapper(mapper);
converter.setCustomConversions(new CustomConversions(
        Arrays.asList(
                new TimeZoneReadConverter(),
                new TimeZoneWriteConverter()
        )
));
converter.afterPropertiesSet();
MongoTemplate template = new MongoTemplate(mongoDbFactory, converter);