JAXB can handle the java.util.Date class. However it expects the format:
“yyyy-MM-dd’T’HH:mm:ss” instead of “yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss”
If you want to use that date format I would suggest using an XmlAdapter, it would look something like the following:
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.adapters.XmlAdapter;
public class DateAdapter extends XmlAdapter<String, Date> {
private SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
@Override
public String marshal(Date v) throws Exception {
return dateFormat.format(v);
}
@Override
public Date unmarshal(String v) throws Exception {
return dateFormat.parse(v);
}
}
You would then specify this adapter on your timestamp property:
import java.util.Date;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessorType;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessType;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElement;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.adapters.XmlJavaTypeAdapter;
@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.NONE)
@XmlRootElement(name = "foo")
public final class Foo {
// Other fields omitted
@XmlElement(name = "timestamp", required = true)
@XmlJavaTypeAdapter(DateAdapter.class)
protected Date timestamp;
public Foo() {}
public Date getTimestamp() {
return timestamp;
}
public void setTimestamp(final Date timestamp) {
this.timestamp = timestamp;
}
}