JsonDateSerializerAdapter.java

package no.niths.domain.adapter;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

import no.niths.common.constants.MiscConstants;

import org.codehaus.jackson.JsonGenerationException;
import org.codehaus.jackson.JsonGenerator;
import org.codehaus.jackson.JsonProcessingException;
import org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonSerializer;
import org.codehaus.jackson.map.SerializerProvider;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
/**
 * Class JsonDateSerializerAdapter used too parse a Date too a String
 */
public class JsonDateSerializerAdapter extends JsonSerializer<Date> {
    private DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat(MiscConstants.DATE_FORMAT);
    private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory
            .getLogger(JsonDateSerializerAdapter.class);

    @Override
    public void serialize(Date date, JsonGenerator gen,
            SerializerProvider provider) throws IOException,
            JsonProcessingException {
        try {
            if (date != null) {
                gen.writeString(df.format(date));
            } else {
                gen.writeNull();
            }

        } catch (JsonGenerationException e) {
            logger.error(e.getMessage(), e);
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            logger.error(e.getMessage(), e);
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}