org.jasig.portlet.notice

Class JsonDateDeserializer

java.lang.Object

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

org.jasig.portlet.notice.JsonDateDeserializer

public class JsonDateDeserializer
extends org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonDeserializer<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 object. Jackson, however, (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.JsonDeserializer

org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonDeserializer.None

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
JsonDateDeserializer()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Date	deserialize(org.codehaus.jackson.JsonParser parser, org.codehaus.jackson.map.DeserializationContext ctx)

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

deserialize, deserializeWithType, getEmptyValue, getNullValue, unwrappingDeserializer

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

JsonDateDeserializer

public JsonDateDeserializer()

Method Detail

deserialize

public Date deserialize(org.codehaus.jackson.JsonParser parser,
               org.codehaus.jackson.map.DeserializationContext ctx)
                 throws org.codehaus.jackson.JsonParseException,
                        IOException

Specified by:

deserialize in class org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonDeserializer<Date>

Throws:

org.codehaus.jackson.JsonParseException

IOException