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/*
 * GSON Joda Time Serialisers
 *
 * Copyright 2013-2014 Greg Kopff
 * All rights reserved.
 *
 * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
 * in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
 * to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
 * copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
 * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
 *
 * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
 * all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
 *
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 * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
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 */

package com.fatboyindustrial.gsonjodatime;

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;
import org.joda.time.LocalDate;
import org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormat;
import org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;

import java.lang.reflect.Type;

/**
 * GSON serialiser/deserialiser for converting Joda {@link LocalDate} objects.
 */
public class LocalDateConverter implements JsonSerializer<LocalDate>, JsonDeserializer<LocalDate> {
    /** Format specifier */
    private static final String PATTERN = "yyyy-MM-dd";

    /**
     * Gson invokes this call-back method during serialization when it encounters a field of the
     * specified type. <p>
     *
     * In the implementation of this call-back method, you should consider invoking
     * {@link com.google.gson.JsonSerializationContext#serialize(Object, java.lang.reflect.Type)} method to create JsonElements for any
     * non-trivial field of the {@code src} object. However, you should never invoke it on the
     * {@code src} object itself since that will cause an infinite loop (Gson will call your
     * call-back method again).
     *
     * @param src the object that needs to be converted to Json.
     * @param typeOfSrc the actual type (fully genericized version) of the source object.
     * @return a JsonElement corresponding to the specified object.
     */
    @Override
    public JsonElement serialize(LocalDate src, Type typeOfSrc, JsonSerializationContext context) {
        final DateTimeFormatter fmt = DateTimeFormat.forPattern(PATTERN);
        return new JsonPrimitive(fmt.print(src));
    }

    /**
     * Gson invokes this call-back method during deserialization when it encounters a field of the
     * specified type. <p>
     *
     * In the implementation of this call-back method, you should consider invoking
     * {@link com.google.gson.JsonDeserializationContext#deserialize(com.google.gson.JsonElement, java.lang.reflect.Type)} method to create objects
     * for any non-trivial field of the returned object. However, you should never invoke it on the
     * the same type passing {@code json} since that will cause an infinite loop (Gson will call your
     * call-back method again).
     *
     * @param json The Json data being deserialized
     * @param typeOfT The type of the Object to deserialize to
     * @return a deserialized object of the specified type typeOfT which is a subclass of {@code T}
     * @throws com.google.gson.JsonParseException if json is not in the expected format of {@code typeOfT}
     */
    @Override
    public LocalDate deserialize(JsonElement json, Type typeOfT, JsonDeserializationContext context)
            throws JsonParseException {
        final DateTimeFormatter fmt = DateTimeFormat.forPattern(PATTERN);
        return fmt.parseLocalDate(json.getAsString());
    }
}