Java 8 LocalDateTime deserialized using Gson

Question

I have JSONs with a date-time attribute in the format \"2014-03-10T18:46:40.000Z\", which I want to deserialize into a java.time.LocalDateTime field using Gson.

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Answer 1

To even further extend @Evers answer:

You can further simplify with a lambda like so:

GSON GSON = new GsonBuilder().registerTypeAdapter(LocalDateTime.class, (JsonDeserializer) (json, type, jsonDeserializationContext) ->
    ZonedDateTime.parse(json.getAsJsonPrimitive().getAsString()).toLocalDateTime()).create();