How to set @ApiModelProperty dataType to String for Swagger documentation

Question

I am using Spring MVC (via Spring Boot) and have integrated Swagger API documentation using the swagger-spring-mvc library.

I have a class that looks something like

Answer 1

@ApiModel
@JsonInclude(JsonInclude.Include.NON_EMPTY)
public class Model {
    @JsonDeserialize(using = LocalDateTimeDeserializer.class)
    @JsonSerialize(using = LocalDateTimeSerializer.class)
    @JsonProperty("myDate")
    @JsonFormat(shape = JsonFormat.Shape.STRING, pattern = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss")
    private final LocalDateTime myDateTime;

}