ZonedDateTime with MongoDB

Question

Trying to use ZonedDateTime with MongoDB. I\'m able to save ZonedDateTime in MongoDB but when i look at the record it has

Answer 1

After spending way too much time debugging this, I finally found a working solution for latest version of spring boot / spring data. This is currently working for me on Spring Boot 2.0.0.M7.

With the accepted answer from veeram, I was getting Couldn't find PersistentEntity for type

I hope this helps someone avoid going down the rabbit hole.

@Configuration
public class MongoConfiguration {

    @Bean
    public MongoCustomConversions customConversions(){
        List> converters = new ArrayList<>();
        converters.add(DateToZonedDateTimeConverter.INSTANCE);
        converters.add( ZonedDateTimeToDateConverter.INSTANCE);
        return new MongoCustomConversions(converters);
    }

    enum DateToZonedDateTimeConverter implements Converter {

        INSTANCE;

        @Override
        public ZonedDateTime convert(Date source) {
            return ofInstant(source.toInstant(), systemDefault());
        }
    }

    enum ZonedDateTimeToDateConverter implements Converter {

        INSTANCE;

        @Override
        public Date convert(ZonedDateTime source) {
            return Date.from(source.toInstant());
        }
    }
}