Java tutorial
/* Developed with the contribution of the European Commission - Directorate General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries European Union, 2015-2016. This file is part of the Integrated Fisheries Data Management (IFDM) Suite. The IFDM Suite is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version. The IFDM Suite is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with the IFDM Suite. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ package eu.europa.ec.fisheries.uvms.rest.serializer; import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonGenerator; import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonSerializer; import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializerProvider; import eu.europa.ec.fisheries.uvms.common.DateUtils; import org.joda.time.DateTime; import java.io.IOException; import java.util.Date; public class CustomDateSerializer extends JsonSerializer<Date> { @Override public void serialize(Date value, JsonGenerator gen, SerializerProvider arg2) throws IOException { gen.writeString(DateUtils.UI_FORMATTER.print(new DateTime(value))); } }