GSON - Date format

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I'm trying to have a custom date format in Gson output, but .setDateFormat(DateFormat.FULL) doesn't seem to work and it the same with .registerTypeAdapter(Date.class, new DateSerializer()).

It's like Gson doesn't care about the object "Date" and print it in its way.

How can I change that?

Thanks

EDIT: 

@Entity
public class AdviceSheet {
  public Date lastModif;
[...]
}

public void method {
   Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().setDateFormat(DateFormat.LONG).create();
   System.out.println(gson.toJson(adviceSheet);
}

I always use java.util.Date; setDateFormat() doesn't work :(

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8 Answers

This is a bug. Currently you either have to set a timeStyle as well or use one of the alternatives described in the other answers.

user_42885060

I'm on Gson 2.8.6 and discovered this bug today.

My approach allows all our existing clients (mobile/web/etc) to continue functioning as they were, but adds some handling for those using 24h formats and allows millis too, for good measure.

Gson rawGson = new Gson();
SimpleDateFormat fmt = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM d, yyyy HH:mm:ss")
private class DateDeserializer implements JsonDeserializer<Date> {
    @Override
    public Date deserialize(JsonElement json, Type typeOfT, JsonDeserializationContext context)
            throws JsonParseException {
        try {
            return new rawGson.fromJson(json, Date.class);
        } catch (JsonSyntaxException e) {}
        String timeString = json.getAsString();
        log.warning("Standard date deserialization didn't work:" + timeString);
        try {
            return fmt.parse(timeString);
        } catch (ParseException e) {}
        log.warning("Parsing as json 24 didn't work:" + timeString);
        return new Date(json.getAsLong());
    }
}

Gson gson = new GsonBuilder()
    .registerTypeAdapter(Date.class, new DateDeserializer())
    .create();

I kept serialization the same as all clients understand the standard json date format.

Ordinarily, I don't think it's good practice to use try/catch blocks to govern flow control, but this should be a fairly rare case.

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