Spring RestTemplate with Jackson as HttpMessageConverter and joda DateTime property fails to deserialize

Question

The scenario is as follows. I have an ObjectMapper (Jackson 2) that registers a JodaModule, capable of serializing and de-serializing Joda DateTime type. This ObjectMapper i

Answer 1

Add dependency

      <dependency>
        <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype</groupId>
        <artifactId>jackson-datatype-joda</artifactId>
        <version>2.9.0.pr4</version>
    </dependency>

and use DateTimeDeserializer.class for deserializing as below

@JsonDeserialize(using = DateTimeDeserializer.class)
@JsonFormat(shape = JsonFormat.Shape.STRING, pattern = "dd.MM.yyyy", timezone = "Europe/Berlin")
private DateTime date;

works fine for me. No need to add a custom message convertor.

Answer 2

OK, I was missing this line in my createRestTemplate() method.

restTemplate.setMessageConverters(messageConverters);