Spring Boot Jackson properties are ignored

[jmirandac]

Hi,

Really nice library, but regarding Spring integration and Dates' formatting, I'm suffering some lacks of customization.

When integrating with Spring Boot, Jackson configuration is ignored. This is what I've in my application.properties which works when not using the JsonView library:

# Jackson serialization config
spring.jackson.serialization.WRITE_DATES_AS_TIMESTAMPS = false
spring.jackson.date-format = dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss

So, my question is... there any way to use the ObjectMapper configured and instantiated by Spring when parsing the objects? Even I've tried to instantiate a custom ObjectMapper and pass it to the @bean when configuring the JsonViewSupportFactoryBean, instead of using the default mapper, something like:

@Bean
public JsonViewSupportFactoryBean views() { 
      ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
      mapper.configure(SerializationFeature.WRITE_DATES_AS_TIMESTAMPS, false);
      mapper.setDateFormat(new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss"));
      return new JsonViewSupportFactoryBean(mapper);
}

But it didn't work. Dates are shown as numbers like timestamps.

I think there are customizations like date formatting which have been ignored, and it would be really nice if they could be taken into account here. Is it possible?

Thanks!

[monitorjbl]

Yeah, that's a Jackson thing that the serializer doesn't do right now. Should be pretty easy to add in though.

[monitorjbl]

@jmirandac this is fixed in master. I'm waiting on a response to #14 for at least the next week before I release to Maven central. If you'd like to try out the latest code you can build and install locally.

You'll have to initialize a custom ObjectMapper, just like you've done in your example. Let me know if you get a chance to try it out.

[jmirandac]

Great work @monitorjbl, it works fine, I did similar changes in my local version of the library when I opened the issue, and I should pull request you my code when I got it working to save you some time, sorry... I'm not used to contribute to Github projects, but I'll try in the future 😄

Thank you for the effort. 👍