Spring @ResponseBody Jackson JsonSerializer with JodaTime

Question

I have below Serializer for JodaTime handling:

public class JodaDateTimeJsonSerializer extends JsonSerializer {

    private static final Str         


        

Answer 1

Although you can put an annotation for each date field, is better to do a global configuration for your object mapper. If you use jackson you can configure your spring as follow:

For CustomObjectMapper:

public class CustomObjectMapper extends ObjectMapper {

    public CustomObjectMapper() {
        super();
        configure(Feature.WRITE_DATES_AS_TIMESTAMPS, false);
        setDateFormat(new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd yyyy HH:mm:ss 'GMT'ZZZ (z)"));
    }
}

Of course, SimpleDateFormat can use any format you need.