Hello Bjorn,
thanks for sharing this experience. We are aware that customizing the
Restlet XStream converter is not an easy thing. This could lead to inherit
from the provided converter helper
(org.restlet.ext.xstream.XStreamConverter) and register it to the Engine
(Engine.getInstance().getRegisteredConverters().add(ConverterHelper))...
I've added a reference of this thread to the issue #291 (
https://github.com/restlet/restlet-framework-java/issues/291).
Best regards,
Thierry Boileau
I still don't know what the difference between my test and server
> environments was, but for whatever reason on the server my persistence
> system was storing my Date objects as java.sql.timestamp and my loca
> environment was using java.util.Date. The problem, then is that
> ISO8601DateConverter only converts date classes, not subclasses. But this
> isn't as easy a fix as it first appears:
>
> - First Subclass ISO8601DateConverter to convert all subclasses of
> java.util.Date. One would think this would be enough:
>
> public static ISO8601DateConverter DATE_CONVERTER = new
> ISO8601DateConverter() {
> @Override
> public boolean canConvert(Class type) {
> return Date.class.isAssignableFrom(type);
> }
> };
>
> - At this point, XStream uses that converter, but for some reason, it
> retains the class="sql-timestamp​" annotation, which no longer makes sense
> for that converter. Now, if you use xstream to convert back, it will use
> the wrong converter to convert the date back, an throw an excpetion. This
> code seems to fix that:
>
> protected XStream createXstream(MediaType mediaType) {
> XStream ret = super.createXstream(mediaType);
>
> ret.addDefaultImplementation(java.sql.Date.class,java.util.Date.class);
>
> ret.addDefaultImplementation(java.sql.Timestamp.class,java.util.Date.class);
>
> ret.addDefaultImplementation(java.sql.Time.class,java.util.Date.class);
> ret.registerConverter(DATE_CONVERTER);
> return ret;
> }
>
> Obviously, this is an xstream issue, but since I first posted here, I
> thought I would post the solution. Also, it would be nice if there was an
> easier wayto change restlet converters since that was another hoop I had to
> jump through in figuring this out.
>
> bjorn
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