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    Re: Resteasy jboss7 jackson configuration
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    created by <a href="http://community.jboss.org/people/thomas.letsch">Thomas Letsch</a> in <i>JBoss AS 7 Development</i> - <a href="http://community.jboss.org/message/640537#640537">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>A late answer, but perhaps it solves someone else's day:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>I have a customer jaxrs provider for my configuration:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>{code} import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.logging.Logger;&#160; import javax.ws.rs.Consumes; import javax.ws.rs.Produces; import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType; import javax.ws.rs.ext.Provider;&#160; import org.codehaus.jackson.map.DeserializationConfig; import org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper; import org.codehaus.jackson.map.SerializationConfig; import org.codehaus.jackson.map.annotate.JsonSerialize; import org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers.jackson.ResteasyJacksonProvider;&#160; @Provider @Consumes({ MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON, "text/json" }) @Produces({ MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON, "text/json" }) public class JacksonConfigurator extends ResteasyJacksonProvider {&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; private static final String DATE_FORMAT = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZZZ";&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; private static final Logger log = Logger.getLogger(JacksonConfigurator.class.getName());&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; public JacksonConfigurator() {&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; super();&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; log.info("configuring date handling");&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; ObjectMapper mapper = _mapperConfig.getConfiguredMapper();&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; configure(SerializationConfig.Feature.WRITE_DATES_AS_TIMESTAMPS, false);&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; configure(SerializationConfig.Feature.FAIL_ON_EMPTY_BEANS, false);&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; SerializationConfig serConfig = mapper.getSerializationConfig();&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; serConfig.setDateFormat(new SimpleDateFormat(DATE_FORMAT));&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; serConfig.setSerializationInclusion(JsonSerialize.Inclusion.NON_NULL);&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; DeserializationConfig deserializationConfig = mapper.getDeserializationConfig();&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; deserializationConfig.setDateFormat(new SimpleDateFormat(DATE_FORMAT));&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; }&#160; } {code} </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Additionally I had to enable the folowing JBoss module dependencies in my war file: org.jboss.resteasy.resteasy-jackson-provider,org.codehaus.jackson.jackson-jaxrs,org.codehaus.jackson.jackson-mapper-asl,org.codehaus.jackson.jackson-core-asl</p><p> That was all. On the first rest request, the mapper gets configured.</p></div>

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