I have been going through a tutorial on Spring boot and there I learnt how to stop jackson from converting dates to timestamp. eg :
{"birthDate":1505736233603} //before
{"birthDate":"2017-09-18T12:04:27.345+0000"}//after
by writing
spring.jackson.serialization.write-dates-as-timestamps=false
in application.properties.
How do I do the same for SpringMVC, ofcourse there is no application.properties in SpringMVC
Another way is to configure the MessageConverter after they have been populated/configured by the framework:
@EnableWebMvc
@Configuration
public class AppConfiguration implements WebMvcConfigurer {
@Override
public void extendMessageConverters(List<HttpMessageConverter<?>> converters) {
for (HttpMessageConverter<?> converter : converters) {
if (converter instanceof AbstractJackson2HttpMessageConverter) {
AbstractJackson2HttpMessageConverter jacksonconverter = (AbstractJackson2HttpMessageConverter) converter;
jacksonconverter.getObjectMapper()
.disable(SerializationFeature.WRITE_DATES_AS_TIMESTAMPS);
}
}
}
}
Moreover, this code should also apply to SMILE because MappingJackson2SmileHttpMessageConverter extends AbstractJackson2HttpMessageConverter.
if you have access to the ObjectMapper, you can also set it as a property programmatically
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
mapper.disable(SerializationFeature.WRITE_DATES_AS_TIMESTAMPS);
mapper.setDateFormat(new ISO8601DateFormat());