1 /**
2 * Copyright 2005-2013 The Kuali Foundation
3 *
4 * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
6 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
7 *
8 * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
9 *
10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14 * limitations under the License.
15 */
16 /**
17 * This is a utility converter class for use with XStream serializers. This was written to deal with an issue
18 * resulting from the use of JODA-Time where unmarshalling of XML was failing.
19 * This applies to only DateTime.class fields.
20 */
21 package org.kuali.rice.krad.util;
22
23 import com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.SingleValueConverter;
24 import org.joda.time.DateTime;
25 import org.joda.time.format.ISODateTimeFormat;
26
27 public class DateTimeConverter implements SingleValueConverter {
28 public boolean canConvert(Class clazz) {
29 return clazz.equals(DateTime.class);
30 }
31
32 @Override
33 public String toString(Object obj) {
34 return obj.toString();
35 }
36
37 @Override
38 public Object fromString(String value) {
39 return ISODateTimeFormat.dateTimeParser().parseDateTime(value);
40 }
41 }