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Michal Krasny
Michal Krasny

Reputation: 5916

xs:String in xs:DateTime format to XMLGregorianCalendar

I use JAXB for un/marshaling XML messages which I get from server. Usually I get the XMLGregorianCalendar values in the fields, that are defind as xs:dateTime in the describing XSD files, so the conversion to XMLGregorianCalendar is done automatically by JAXB.

Example from XSD file

<xs:attribute name="readouttime" use="required" type="xs:dateTime" />

However one field is defined as xs:string like this:

<xs:element minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" name="Value" type="xs:string" />

but I am receiving a value that should represent the dateTime:

<Value>2014-08-31T15:00:00Z</Value>

Is there any nice way, how to convert this string to XMLGregorianCallendar, or should I use SimpleDateFormat and type the pattern manually? I feel this may be a dangerous part.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 6861

Answers (3)

Xstian
Xstian

Reputation: 8272

You can use an @XmlJavaTypeAdapter on your field like this..

@XmlElement(name = "string", required = true) 
@XmlJavaTypeAdapter(DateAdapter.class)
protected XMLGregorianCalendar value;

DateAdapter.java

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.adapters.XmlAdapter;
import javax.xml.datatype.DatatypeFactory;
import javax.xml.datatype.XMLGregorianCalendar;

public class DateAdapter extends XmlAdapter<String, XMLGregorianCalendar> {

    private SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");

    public String marshal(XMLGregorianCalendar v) throws Exception {
        return dateFormat.format(v);
    }

    public XMLGregorianCalendar unmarshal(String v) throws Exception {
        return DatatypeFactory.newInstance().newXMLGregorianCalendar(v);
    }

}

Upvotes: 1

Zany
Zany

Reputation: 328

My idea

String time = "yourTimeStamp"; 
SimpleDateFormat f = new SimpleDateFormat("yourFormat"); 
Date myDate = f.parse(time); 
GregorianCalendar c = new GregorianCalendar();
c.setTime(myDate); 
XMLGregorianCalendar myDate2 = DatatypeFactory.newInstance().newXMLGregorianCalendar(c);

Upvotes: 2

hennes
hennes

Reputation: 9342

A quick Google search yields

String mydatetime = "2011-09-29T08:55:00";
XMLGregorianCalendar xgc = DatatypeFactory.newInstance().newXMLGregorianCalendar(mydatetime);

Credits go to this blog post.

Upvotes: 5

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