Simple conversion between java.util.Date and XMLGregorianCalendar

Question

I\'m looking for a simple method of converting between java.util.Date and javax.xml.datatype.XMLGregorianCalendar in both directions.

Here is the code that

Answer 1

I had to make some changes to make it work, as some things seem to have changed in the meantime:

• xjc would complain that my adapter does not extend XmlAdapter
• some bizarre and unneeded imports were drawn in (org.w3._2001.xmlschema)
• the parsing methods must not be static when extending the XmlAdapter, obviously

Here's a working example, hope this helps (I'm using JodaTime but in this case SimpleDate would be sufficient):

import java.util.Date;
import javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.adapters.XmlAdapter;
import org.joda.time.DateTime;

public class DateAdapter extends XmlAdapter {
    @Override
    public Object marshal(Object dt) throws Exception {
        return new DateTime((Date) dt).toString("YYYY-MM-dd");
    }

    @Override
        public Object unmarshal(Object s) throws Exception {
        return DatatypeConverter.parseDate((String) s).getTime();
    }
}

In the xsd, I have followed the excellent references given above, so I have included this xml annotation: