Deserialize Java 8 LocalDateTime with JacksonMapper

Question

I have read several questions with answers here in SO concerning serialization and deserialization between java.time.LocalDateTime and JSON property but I can\'

Answer 1

You used wrong letter case for year in line:

@JsonFormat(pattern = "YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm")

Should be:

@JsonFormat(pattern = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm")

With this change everything is working as expected.

Answer 2

This worked for me:

 @JsonFormat(pattern = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ", shape = JsonFormat.Shape.STRING)
 private LocalDateTime startDate;

Answer 3

UPDATE:

Change to:

@Column(name = "start_date")
@DateTimeFormat(pattern = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm", iso = ISO.DATE_TIME)
@JsonFormat(shape = JsonFormat.Shape.STRING, pattern = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm")
private LocalDateTime startDate;

JSON request:

{
 "startDate":"2019-04-02 11:45"
}

Answer 4

You can implement your JsonSerializer

See:

That your propertie in bean

@JsonProperty("start_date")
@JsonFormat("YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm")
@JsonSerialize(using = DateSerializer.class)
private Date startDate;

That way implement your custom class

public class DateSerializer extends JsonSerializer<Date> implements ContextualSerializer<Date> {

    private final String format;

    private DateSerializer(final String format) {
        this.format = format;
    }

    public DateSerializer() {
        this.format = null;
    }

    @Override
    public void serialize(final Date value, final JsonGenerator jgen, final SerializerProvider provider) throws IOException {
        jgen.writeString(new SimpleDateFormat(format).format(value));
    }

    @Override
    public JsonSerializer<Date> createContextual(final SerializationConfig serializationConfig, final BeanProperty beanProperty) throws JsonMappingException {
        final AnnotatedElement annotated = beanProperty.getMember().getAnnotated();
        return new DateSerializer(annotated.getAnnotation(JsonFormat.class).value());
    }

}

Try this after post result for us.

Answer 5

This worked for me :

import org.springframework.format.annotation.DateTimeFormat;
import org.springframework.format.annotation.DateTimeFormat.ISO;

@Column(name="end_date", nullable = false)
@DateTimeFormat(iso = ISO.DATE_TIME)
@JsonFormat(pattern = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm")
private LocalDateTime endDate;

Answer 6

The date time you're passing is not a iso local date time format.

Change to

@Column(name = "start_date")
@DateTimeFormat(iso = DateTimeFormatter.ISO_LOCAL_DATE_TIME)
@JsonFormat(pattern = "YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm")
private LocalDateTime startDate;

and pass date string in the format '2011-12-03T10:15:30'.

But if you still want to pass your custom format, use just have to specify the right formatter.

Change to

@Column(name = "start_date")
@DateTimeFormat(iso = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm"))
@JsonFormat(pattern = "YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm")
private LocalDateTime startDate;

I think your problem is the @DateTimeFormat has no effect at all. As the jackson is doing the deseralization and it doesnt know anything about spring annotation and I dont see spring scanning this annotation in the deserialization context.

Alternatively, you can try setting the formatter while registering the java time module.

LocalDateTimeDeserializer localDateTimeDeserializer = new LocalDateTimeDeserializer(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm"));
module.addDeserializer(LocalDateTime.class, localDateTimeDeserializer);

Here is the test case with the deseralizer which works fine. May be try to get rid of that DateTimeFormat annotation altogether.

@RunWith(JUnit4.class)
public class JacksonLocalDateTimeTest {

    private ObjectMapper objectMapper;

    @Before
    public void init() {
        JavaTimeModule module = new JavaTimeModule();
        LocalDateTimeDeserializer localDateTimeDeserializer =  new LocalDateTimeDeserializer(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm"));
        module.addDeserializer(LocalDateTime.class, localDateTimeDeserializer);
        objectMapper = Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder.json()
                .modules(module)
                .featuresToDisable(SerializationFeature.WRITE_DATES_AS_TIMESTAMPS)
                .build();
    }

    @Test
    public void test() throws IOException {
        final String json = "{ \"date\": \"2016-11-08 12:00\" }";
        final JsonType instance = objectMapper.readValue(json, JsonType.class);

        assertEquals(LocalDateTime.parse("2016-11-08 12:00",DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm") ), instance.getDate());
    }
}


class JsonType {
    private LocalDateTime date;

    public LocalDateTime getDate() {
        return date;
    }

    public void setDate(LocalDateTime date) {
        this.date = date;
    }
}