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/* * $Id$ * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Copyright (c) Reveal Technologies, LLC. All rights reserved. http://www.reveal-tech.com * * The software in this package is published under the terms of the CPAL v1.0 * license, a copy of which has been included with this distribution in the * LICENSE.txt file. */ package com.sitewhere.rest.model.datatype; import java.io.IOException; import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.Date; import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonGenerator; import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException; import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonSerializer; import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializerProvider; /** * Used for serializing Calendar objects for JSON output. * * @author dadams */ public class JsonDateSerializer extends JsonSerializer<Date> { /* * (non-Javadoc) * * @see com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonSerializer#serialize(java.lang.Object, * com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonGenerator, com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializerProvider) */ public void serialize(Date value, JsonGenerator gen, SerializerProvider arg2) throws IOException, JsonProcessingException { SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ"); String formattedDate = formatter.format(value); gen.writeString(formattedDate); } }