How do I represent dates without the timezone using Apache CXF?

Question

I have a WSDL that specifies an element\'s type to be xs:date.

When I use Apache CXF to generate the Java classes, it renders the variable as an javax.xml.datatype.XMLGr

Answer 1

To complete Filip answer (thanks to him!), maybe it will help some of you ...

I had to declare a new XmlAdapter on the concern field date with the annotation @XmlJavaTypeAdapter

public class YourDTO {
   // ... 
   @XmlElement
   @XmlSchemaType(name = "dateTime")
   @XmlJavaTypeAdapter(type = XMLGregorianCalendar.class, value = XmlDateAdapter.class)
   public Date yourDate;
   // ...
}

The adapter

public class XmlDateAdapter extends XmlAdapter {

@Override
public XMLGregorianCalendar marshal(Date date) throws Exception {
    GregorianCalendar gcal = new GregorianCalendar();
    gcal.setTime(date);
    XMLGregorianCalendar xmlDate = DatatypeFactory.newInstance().newXMLGregorianCalendar(gcal);
    xmlDate.setTimezone(DatatypeConstants.FIELD_UNDEFINED);
    return xmlDate;
}
// ...

SOAP message date format before

2017-04-18T00:00:00+02:00

SOAP message date format after

2017-04-18T00:00:00