Great guys thanks for the tips that looks like what I was looking for.
Is there a master list of available @Providers anywhere? I swear I
had seen one once in the JAXRS docs but I just spent some time looking
and now can't find it.
Thanks!
Chris
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 3:48 AM, Paul Sandoz <Paul.Sandoz_at_sun.com> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> You can modify your context resolver to be ContextResolver<Marshaller>
>
> And then use the following methods:
>
> http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/xml/bind/Marshaller.html#setAdapter%28java.lang.Class,%20A%29
> http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/xml/bind/Marshaller.html#setAdapter%28javax.xml.bind.annotation.adapters.XmlAdapter%29
>
> In your context resolver you can inject UriInfo and thus obtain the query
> parameter when the request is in scope.
>
> Paul.
>
> On Apr 1, 2010, at 3:03 AM, Chris Carrier wrote:
>
>> Hey folks,
>>
>> A little while ago I toiled to find a way to deal with dates being
>> represented as Java timestamps. I finally discovered the ability to
>> use package level annotations to define custom JAXB adapters based on
>> type that I could use to format Dates however I wanted. Well now I
>> have a new requirement to return Date representations based on a
>> parameter in the get request. Like a parameter might be passed into
>> GET calls like
>>
>> ...?humanReadableDates=true
>>
>> And then I return GMT dates or whatever. Otherwise I return
>> timestamps. So I would love to be able to just use my central
>> XmlJavaTypeAdapter so that I can apply this easily to any pojo's I
>> want but the annotation syntax:
>>
>> @XmlJavaTypeAdapter(value = DateAdapter.class, type = Date.class)
>>
>> Suggests that JAXB will instantiate a new DateAdapter whenever it
>> needs one and I have no idea how to get a handle on that instance to
>> do anything with it based on request parameters.
>>
>> So basically I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions for a good
>> way to do this. If there's some trick to get a handle on an
>> XmlJavaTypeAdapter that would work. I could just put some logic in my
>> domain classes so that i can set some Date format instance variable in
>> them to affect the way they represent Dates but that really seems
>> pretty crappy. I would much prefer to keep my marshalling config
>> stuff centralized and out of my pojo's. I've got a Provider that
>> 'implements ContextResolver<JAXBContext>' but I see no way to
>> configure my Date format from here.
>>
>> If I was using plain Jackson I could do
>> 'mapper.getSerializationConfig().setDateFormat(FORMAT)' but at this
>> point we've gone done the road of using JAXB and it would be a bit of
>> a pain to switch.
>>
>> Suggestions very welcome.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Chris
>>
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