JAXB, Custom bindings, Adapter1.class and Joda-time

Question

I have a problem with the way JAXB is generating the bound classes for an XML schema (which, for sake of precision, I cannot modify). I want to map a xsd:date type to a Joda

Answer 1

I found this solution as useful http://blog.bdoughan.com/2011/05/jaxb-and-joda-time-dates-and-times.html

You will create an adapter

package blog.jodatime;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.adapters.XmlAdapter;
import org.joda.time.DateTime;

public class DateTimeAdapter 
    extends XmlAdapter<String, DateTime>{

    public DateTime unmarshal(String v) throws Exception {
        //return new DateTime(v); - old solution that didn't properly handled the timezone
        return DateTime.parse(v);
    }

    public String marshal(DateTime v) throws Exception {
        return v.toString();
    }

}

Then register it with annotations by defining a blog/jodatime/package-info.java in your sources

@XmlJavaTypeAdapters({ @XmlJavaTypeAdapter(type = DateTime.class, value = JodaDateTimeJaxbAdapter.class) })
package blog.jodatime;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.adapters.*;

import org.joda.time.*;

Then you should expect that the serialization of DateTime is done without any other changes, just don't forget to annotate your class with @XmlRootElement.