Dozer mapping JodaTime property not working as expected

Question

I am using Dozer to map between a Document class to DocumentManagementBean class, both of my own making. Both have a property, with getters and setters, of Joda DateTime type, c

Answer 1

The basic problem is that Dozer creates a new blank instance of DateTime, via new DateTime(), and thats how you end up with the current date/time instead of the original one. There might be multiple solutions, I usually went with a customconverter, globally defined:

    
        org.joda.time.DateTime
        org.joda.time.DateTime
    

and

public class DateTimeCustomConverter extends DozerConverter {

    public DateTimeCustomConverter() {
        super(DateTime.class, DateTime.class);
    }

    @Override
    public DateTime convertTo(final DateTime source, final DateTime destination) {

        if (source == null) {
            return null;
        }

        return new DateTime(source);
    }

    @Override
    public DateTime convertFrom(final DateTime source, final DateTime destination) {

        if (source == null) {
            return null;
        }

        return new DateTime(source);
        }

}

It may overdo it, though :)