001/**
002 * Copyright 2005-2014 The Kuali Foundation
003 *
004 * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
005 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
006 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
007 *
008 * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
009 *
010 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
011 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
012 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
013 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
014 * limitations under the License.
015 */
016/**
017 * This is a utility converter class for use with XStream serializers. This was written to deal with an issue
018 * resulting from the use of JODA-Time where unmarshalling of XML was failing.
019 * This applies to only DateTime.class fields.
020 */
021package org.kuali.rice.krad.service.util;
022
023import com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.SingleValueConverter;
024import org.joda.time.DateTime;
025import org.joda.time.format.ISODateTimeFormat;
026
027/**
028 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
029 */
030public class DateTimeConverter implements SingleValueConverter {
031    public boolean canConvert(Class clazz) {
032        return clazz.equals(DateTime.class);
033    }
034
035    @Override
036    public String toString(Object obj) {
037        return obj.toString();
038    }
039
040    @Override
041    public Object fromString(String value) {
042        return ISODateTimeFormat.dateTimeParser().parseDateTime(value);
043    }
044}