Unmarshalling LocalDate/LocalDateTime with MOXy

Question

How can I get MOXy to unmarshal JSON into LocalDate and LocalDateTime?

I\'ve got an @GET method which produces a sample instance w

Answer 1

According to peeskillet's suggestion I implemented the following adapter class:

public class LocalDateTimeAdapter extends XmlAdapter{

  private static final DateTimeFormatter DTF = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyyMMddHHmmss");

  @Override
  public String marshal(LocalDateTime localDateTime) throws Exception {
    return localDateTime.format(DTF);
  }

  @Override
  public LocalDateTime unmarshal(String string) throws Exception {
    return LocalDateTime.parse(string, DTF);
  }

}

In addition, I created package-info.java in the same package where my classes for MOXy and the adapter (in a subpackage) are located with the following content:

@XmlJavaTypeAdapters({
  @XmlJavaTypeAdapter(type=LocalDateTime.class,
      value=LocalDateTimeAdapter.class)
})
package api;

import java.time.LocalDateTime;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.adapters.XmlJavaTypeAdapter;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.adapters.XmlJavaTypeAdapters;

import api.adapter.LocalDateTimeAdapter;

Thus, marshalling and unmarshalling works without problems. And with DTF you can specify the format that shall be applied.