Set Jackson Timezone for Date deserialization

Question

I\'m using Jackson (via Spring MVC Annotations) to deserialize a field into a java.util.Date from JSON. The POST looks like - {\"enrollDate\":\"2011-09-28

Answer 1

I had same problem with Calendar deserialization, solved extending CalendarDeserializer.
It forces UTC Timezone
I paste the code if someone need it:

@JacksonStdImpl
public class UtcCalendarDeserializer extends CalendarDeserializer {

    TimeZone TZ_UTC = TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC");

    @Override
    public Calendar deserialize(JsonParser jp, DeserializationContext ctxt) throws IOException, JsonProcessingException {
        JsonToken t = jp.getCurrentToken();
        if (t == JsonToken.VALUE_NUMBER_INT) {
            Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(TZ_UTC);
            cal.clear();
            cal.setTimeInMillis(jp.getLongValue());

            return cal;
        }

        return super.deserialize(jp, ctxt);
    }
}

in JSON model class just annotate the field with:

@JsonDeserialize(using = UtcCalendarDeserializer.class)
private Calendar myCalendar;