DateFormatterAdapter.java

package io.seqware.webservice.adapter;

import java.util.Date;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.adapters.XmlAdapter;
import org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
import org.joda.time.format.ISODateTimeFormat;

/**
 * A JAXB Adapter to convert {@link Date} to ISO8601 date time strings when generating XML and JSON. This adapter also converts ISO8601 date
 * time strings into {@link Date} classes when converting from XML or JSON to a Java Object.
 * 
 * ISO8601 date time strings has the format of the following example: {@code 2012-01-09T21:39:17-05:00}.
 * 
 * @author tdebat
 * 
 */
public class DateFormatterAdapter extends XmlAdapter<String, Date> {

    private static DateTimeFormatter dateTimeFormatter = ISODateTimeFormat.dateTimeNoMillis();

    @Override
    public Date unmarshal(final String v) throws Exception {
        return dateTimeFormatter.parseDateTime(v).toDate();
    }

    @Override
    public String marshal(final Date v) throws Exception {
        return dateTimeFormatter.print(v.getTime());
    }
}