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Peter Penzov
Peter Penzov

Reputation: 1646

Store Date in XML tags

I have a question for storing Datetime into Jaxb. Currently I have this:

XML:

<reconcile>
  <start_date>2018-04-08T11:02:44</start_date>
  <end_date>2018-04-08T11:02:44</end_date>
  <page>1</page>
</reconcile>

JaxB Object:

    @XmlElement(name = "start_date")
    public Date start_date;
    @XmlElement(name = "end_date")
    public Date end_date;
    @XmlElement(name = "page")

Should I use String for start_date and end_date or I need convert the String 2018-04-08 11:02:44 before I use JAXB? Can you share what is the best practice?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 323

Answers (1)

Andreas
Andreas

Reputation: 159114

Added the JAXB for java.time from https://github.com/jaxb-java-time-adapters/jaxb-java-time-adapters#releases

Then annotate like this:

@XmlRootElement
public class Reconcile {
    @XmlElement(name = "start_date")
    @XmlJavaTypeAdapter(LocalDateTimeXmlAdapter.class)
    public LocalDateTime start_date;

    @XmlElement(name = "end_date")
    @XmlJavaTypeAdapter(LocalDateTimeXmlAdapter.class)
    public LocalDateTime end_date;

    @XmlElement(name = "page")
    public int page;
}

Test

Reconcile reconcile = new Reconcile();
reconcile.start_date = LocalDateTime.of(2018, 4, 8, 11, 2, 44);
reconcile.end_date = LocalDateTime.of(2018, 11, 8, 11, 2, 44);
reconcile.page = 1;

JAXBContext jaxbContext = JAXBContext.newInstance(Reconcile.class);
Marshaller marshaller = jaxbContext.createMarshaller();
marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, Boolean.TRUE);
marshaller.marshal(reconcile, System.out);

Output

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<reconcile>
    <start_date>2018-04-08T11:02:44</start_date>
    <end_date>2018-11-08T11:02:44</end_date>
    <page>1</page>
</reconcile>

Upvotes: 2

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