Jackson date-format for OffsetDateTime in Spring Boot

Question

I'm trying to output an OffsetDateTime from my Spring application, and have in my application.properties these properties:

spring.jackson.serialization.WRITE_DATES_AS_TIMESTAMPS=false spring.jackson.date-format=yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm 

However when the date is returned it is formatted as

"2017-01-30T16:55:00Z" 

How should I correctly configure the format for the date in my Spring application?

Answer 1

So I've managed to figure out a solution, but if you have an alternative please post it.

I ended up creating a new primary ObjectMapper bean, and registering a new module with a custom serializer for OffsetDateTime. I'm able to set my own date format in here, using java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter. I also had to register the JavaTimeModule with my mapper.

@Configuration public class JacksonOffsetDateTimeMapper{      @Primary     @Bean     public ObjectMapper objectMapper() {          ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();         objectMapper.registerModule(new JavaTimeModule());         SimpleModule simpleModule = new SimpleModule();         simpleModule.addSerializer(OffsetDateTime.class, new JsonSerializer<OffsetDateTime>() {             @Override             public void serialize(OffsetDateTime offsetDateTime, JsonGenerator jsonGenerator, SerializerProvider serializerProvider) throws IOException, JsonProcessingException {                 jsonGenerator.writeString(DateTimeFormatter.ISO_LOCAL_DATE_TIME.format(offsetDateTime));             }         });         objectMapper.registerModule(simpleModule);          return objectMapper;     }  } 

Answer 2

ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper(); mapper.registerModule(new JavaTimeModule()); mapper.disable(SerializationFeature.WRITE_DATES_AS_TIMESTAMPS); 

By doing that, you can get OffsetDateTime properties as ISO 8601 including offset in your target.