Spring Boot LocalDate field serialization and deserialization

Question

On spring boot 1.2.3.RELEASE with fasterxml what is the correct way of serializing and de-serializing a LocalDate field to iso date formatted string?

I\'ve tried:

Answer 1

If you want to use a custom Java Date formatter, add the @JsonFormat annotation.

@JsonFormat(pattern = "dd/MM/yyyy")
@JsonDeserialize(using = LocalDateDeserializer.class)
@JsonSerialize(using = LocalDateSerializer.class)
private LocalDate birthdate;*