001/**
002 * Copyright 2005-2016 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.util;
022
023import com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.SingleValueConverter;
024import org.joda.time.DateTime;
025import org.joda.time.format.ISODateTimeFormat;
026
027public class DateTimeConverter implements SingleValueConverter {
028    public boolean canConvert(Class clazz) {
029        return clazz.equals(DateTime.class);
030    }
031
032    @Override
033    public String toString(Object obj) {
034        return obj.toString();
035    }
036
037    @Override
038    public Object fromString(String value) {
039        return ISODateTimeFormat.dateTimeParser().parseDateTime(value);
040    }
041}