ah, ok, now I read your reply.. great.. yes, the adapter is needed...
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Chris Carrier <ctcarrier_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Seems like the XmlJavaTypeAdapter annotation is going to do it. I have to
> write a "custom" Date adapter that looks like:
>
> public class DateAdapter extends XmlAdapter<String, Date> {
> private final static Log log = LogFactory.getLog(DateAdapter.class);
>
>
> @Override
> public Date unmarshal(String v) throws Exception {
> return new Date(Long.valueOf(v));
> }
>
> @Override
> public String marshal(Date v) throws Exception {
> return v.toString();
> }
> }
>
> Still seems a little crazy I have to write this code since it seems like it
> should be the default. But it's not too much and it gives us the ability to
> support multiple date formats if we want.
>
> Thanks for all the help I probably never would have found that package level
> annotation!
>
> Chris
>
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Chris Carrier <ctcarrier_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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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