org.jasig.portlet.notice

Class JsonDateSerializer

java.lang.Object

org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonSerializer<Date>

org.jasig.portlet.notice.JsonDateSerializer

public class JsonDateSerializer
extends org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonSerializer<Date>

Apparently there is no standard format for dates in JSON. JsonLib (which this portlet previously used) essentially serialized an instance of java.util.Date like any other objeict. Jackson, howerever, (the current method) converts the date to "epoch time" (a long representing milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT). The Jackson approach isn't that useful, since it becomes hard to detect what is a date. This class is responsible for telling Jackson to use the former method.

Author:

awills

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonSerializer

org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonSerializer.None

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
JsonDateSerializer()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	serialize(Date date, org.codehaus.jackson.JsonGenerator gen, org.codehaus.jackson.map.SerializerProvider provider)

Methods inherited from class org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonSerializer

handledType, isUnwrappingSerializer, serializeWithType, unwrappingSerializer

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

JsonDateSerializer

public JsonDateSerializer()

Method Detail

serialize

public void serialize(Date date,
             org.codehaus.jackson.JsonGenerator gen,
             org.codehaus.jackson.map.SerializerProvider provider)
               throws org.codehaus.jackson.JsonGenerationException,
                      IOException

Specified by:

serialize in class org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonSerializer<Date>

Throws:

org.codehaus.jackson.JsonGenerationException

IOException