Java 8 LocalDate Jackson format

Question

For java.util.Date when I do

@JsonFormat(shape = JsonFormat.Shape.STRING, pattern = \"dd/MM/yyyy\")  
  private Date dateOfBirth;
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Answer 1

Since LocalDateSerializer turns it into "[year,month,day]" (a json array) rather than "year-month-day" (a json string) by default, and since I don't want to require any special ObjectMapper setup (you can make LocalDateSerializer generate strings if you disable SerializationFeature.WRITE_DATES_AS_TIMESTAMPS but that requires additional setup to your ObjectMapper), I use the following:

imports:

import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.std.ToStringSerializer;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype.jsr310.deser.LocalDateDeserializer;

code:

// generates "yyyy-MM-dd" output
@JsonSerialize(using = ToStringSerializer.class)
// handles "yyyy-MM-dd" input just fine (note: "yyyy-M-d" format will not work)
@JsonDeserialize(using = LocalDateDeserializer.class)
private LocalDate localDate;

And now I can just use new ObjectMapper() to read and write my objects without any special setup.