Overriding BeanPropertyRowMapper to Support JodaTime DateTime

Question

My Domain object has couple of Joda-Time DateTime fields. When I\'m reading database values using SimpleJdbcTemplate:

Patient patient = jdbc.

Answer 1

The correct thing to do is to subclass BeanPropertyRowMapper, override initBeanWrapper(BeanWrapper) and register a custom Property Editor:

public class JodaDateTimeEditor extends PropertyEditorSupport {
    @Override
    public void setAsText(final String text) throws IllegalArgumentException {
        setValue(new DateTime(text)); // date time in ISO8601 format
                                      // (yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.SSSZZ)
    }
    @Override
    public void setValue(final Object value) {
        super.setValue(value == null || value instanceof DateTime ? value
                                        : new DateTime(value));
    }
    @Override
    public DateTime getValue() {
        return (DateTime) super.getValue();
    }
    @Override
    public String getAsText() {
        return getValue().toString(); // date time in ISO8601 format
                                      // (yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.SSSZZ)
    }
}
public class JodaTimeSavvyBeanPropertyRowMapper
                  extends BeanPropertyRowMapper {
    @Override
    protected void initBeanWrapper(BeanWrapper bw) {
        bw.registerCustomEditor(DateTime.class, new JodaDateTimeEditor());
    }
}