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Re: [Jersey] Parsing unix timestamp in JSON

From: Chris Carrier <ctcarrier_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:08:21 -0800

When I just echo back the value after marshalling/unmarshalling it will turn
a Unix timestamp from yesterday to:

{"wrapped":"95508544-06-28T19:08:16.768-07:00"}

Which is of course a nonsense year for another few million years. It seems
a bit strange to me that I should have to go to such lengths to support Unix
timestamps when the only non-default and non-deprecated java.util.Date
constructor takes a Unix timestamp. It just seems like the parsers can't
tell the value is a long. They all want to treat it like a String. I'm new
to JSON but isn't it standard to wrap everything with quotes?

I'll check out that page but it doesn't immediately look like my issue.
This functionality worked fine when we were manually handling the servlet
request/responses and using Jackson's default behavior. If I have to write
500 lines of code to do the same thing that we did in one line then I think
selling my team on the usefulness of a JAX-RS framework is going to be
difficult.

Thanks
Chris

2010/1/28 Felipe Gaścho <fgaucho_at_gmail.com>

> > behaving even stranger with my date format. Thanks for pointing out the
>
> what kind of strange behaviour ?
>
> may be this one:
>
> http://weblogs.java.net/blog/felipegaucho/archive/2009/12/06/jaxb-customization-xsddatetime
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