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/** * Copyright (c) 2010 Darmstadt University of Technology. * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html * * Contributors: * Marcel Bruch - initial API and implementation. */ package cc.recommenders.utils.gson; import java.lang.reflect.Type; import java.util.Calendar; import java.util.Date; import java.util.GregorianCalendar; import javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter; import com.google.gson.JsonDeserializationContext; import com.google.gson.JsonDeserializer; import com.google.gson.JsonElement; import com.google.gson.JsonParseException; import com.google.gson.JsonPrimitive; import com.google.gson.JsonSerializationContext; import com.google.gson.JsonSerializer; public class ISO8601DateParser implements JsonDeserializer<Date>, JsonSerializer<Date> { @Override public Date deserialize(final JsonElement json, final Type typeOfT, final JsonDeserializationContext context) throws JsonParseException { final String date = json.getAsJsonPrimitive().getAsString(); final Calendar calendar = DatatypeConverter.parseDateTime(date); return calendar.getTime(); } @Override public JsonElement serialize(final Date src, final Type typeOfSrc, final JsonSerializationContext context) { final Calendar calendar = GregorianCalendar.getInstance(); calendar.setTime(src); return new JsonPrimitive(DatatypeConverter.printDateTime(calendar)); } }