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/* Copyright 2010 platers.code Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. */ package com.pc.dailymile.domain.converters; import java.lang.reflect.Type; import java.util.Date; import org.joda.time.DateTimeZone; import org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormatter; import org.joda.time.format.ISODateTimeFormat; 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 DateConverter implements JsonDeserializer<Date>, JsonSerializer<Date> { // 2010-12-25T12:15:00Z private DateTimeFormatter deserializeFormatter = ISODateTimeFormat.dateTimeNoMillis() .withZone(DateTimeZone.UTC); public Date deserialize(JsonElement json, Type typeOfT, JsonDeserializationContext context) throws JsonParseException { return deserializeFormatter.parseDateTime(json.getAsJsonPrimitive().getAsString()).toDate(); } public JsonElement serialize(Date date, Type typeOfT, JsonSerializationContext context) { return new JsonPrimitive(deserializeFormatter.print(date.getTime())); } }