Jackson deserialization issue for ZonedDateTime

Question

I've the following field in a class I use during deserialization of a service that I'm consuming.

private ZonedDateTime transactionDateTime;

The service I'm consuming may return a Date or DateTime using the pattern: yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ

Let me give 2 examples of what the service returns:

• 2015-11-18T18:05:38.000+0200
• 2015-11-18T00:00:00.000+0200

While first one works well, the latter causes the following exception to be thrown during deserialization:

java.time.format.DateTimeParseException: Text '2015-11-18T00:00:00.000+0200' could not be parsed at index 23

I'm using;

• Spring Boot 1.3.1
• Jackson 2.6.4 (with JSR310 module included)

Does this require a custom deserialization class?

Answer 1

Earlier in the code I was using the field with @JsonFormat annotation but removed that as I thought it was meant for serialization only like the JavaDocs suggest.

Turned out that I needed add back that annotation. And the real issue was that the 3rd party service response was indeed wrong (it was missing a wrapper element in the XML) which caused the deserialisation to fail. The error was:

com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonMappingException: Can not instantiate value of type [simple type, class com.foo.bar.adapter.john.model.account.UserAccount] from String value ('2015-11-18T00:00:00.000+0200'); no single-String constructor/factory method

The field is written like below:

@JsonFormat(pattern = Constants.DATETIME_FORMAT)
@JacksonXmlProperty(localName = "transactionDate")
private ZonedDateTime transactionDateTime;

Also I had to add @JsonRootName("transaction") to the class of this field because the object is wrapped into a collection.

Answer 2

You can use annotations like:

@JsonSerialize(using = MyCustomJsonDateSerializer.class)

or

@JsonDeserialize(using = MyCustomJsonDateDeserializer.class)

To customize how Jackson parses Dates. Those custom Serializer and Deserializer must extend JsonSerializer and JsonDeserializer. For example:

public class MyCustomJsonDateSerializer extends JsonSerializer<Date> {

    @Override
    public void serialize(Date date, JsonGenerator jgen, SerializerProvider provider) throws IOException, JsonProcessingException {
        jgen.writeString(date != null ? ISODateTimeFormat.dateTime().print(new DateTime(date)) : null);
      }
}

Answer 3

Jackson deserialize will by default to by pass the timezone infor and use ctx timezone to overrride it ,which all ISO8601 will ends to UTC

this feature can be turned off by ,if you are on spring

spring.jackson.deserialization.ADJUST_DATES_TO_CONTEXT_TIME_ZONE=false