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/* * Copyright 2013 Opencard Inc. * * 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 mx.openpay.client.serialization; import java.lang.reflect.Type; import java.text.ParseException; import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.Date; import com.google.gson.JsonDeserializationContext; import com.google.gson.JsonDeserializer; import com.google.gson.JsonElement; import com.google.gson.JsonPrimitive; import com.google.gson.JsonSerializationContext; import com.google.gson.JsonSerializer; /** * Formats the JSON-serialized dates. * @author elopez */ public class DateFormatDeserializer implements JsonDeserializer<Date>, JsonSerializer<Date> { public Date deserialize(final JsonElement json, final Type paramType, final JsonDeserializationContext paramJsonDeserializationContext) { String data = json.getAsJsonPrimitive().getAsString(); try { return this.parse(data); } catch (Exception e) { return null; } } private Date parse(final String data) throws java.text.ParseException { if (data.length() <= 10) { return this.parseDateOnly(data); } else { return this.parseISO8601(data); } } private Date parseDateOnly(final String date) throws ParseException { return new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd").parse(date); } /** * Parse the date using the ISO8601DateParser from Apache. Synchronized since it's not thread-safe. */ private synchronized Date parseISO8601(final String date) throws ParseException { return ISO8601DateParser.parse(date); } @Override public JsonElement serialize(final Date src, final Type typeOfSrc, final JsonSerializationContext context) { String dateFormatAsString = ISO8601DateParser.format(src); return new JsonPrimitive(dateFormatAsString); } }