JsonDateDeserializer.java

package org.genedb.crawl.json;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.util.Date;

import org.codehaus.jackson.JsonParser;
import org.codehaus.jackson.JsonProcessingException;
import org.codehaus.jackson.map.DeserializationContext;
import org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonDeserializer;

public class JsonDateDeserializer extends JsonDeserializer<Date> {

    @Override
    public Date deserialize(JsonParser parser, DeserializationContext context) throws IOException, JsonProcessingException {
        String dateString = parser.getText();
        try {
            return JsonDateSerializer.dateFormat.parse(dateString);
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            return null;
        }
    }

}