I am trying to serialize and deserialize POJOs to and from JSON on Camel routes using Jackson. Some of these have Java 8 LocalDate fields, and I want them to be serialised as YYYY-MM-DD string, not as an array of integers.
We only use Java configuration for our Spring Boot application, so no XML Camel configuration.
I have successfully created an ObjectMapper that does what I want, which is being used by other parts of our system by adding this to our dependencies:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-datatype-jsr310</artifactId>
</dependency>
and this to our application configuration:
@Bean
public ObjectMapper objectMapper(Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder builder) {
return builder
.featuresToDisable(SerializationFeature.WRITE_DATES_AS_TIMESTAMPS)
.build();
}
Example outgoing REST route:
@Component
public class MyRouteBuilder extends RouteBuilder {
@Override
public void configure() throws Exception {
restConfiguration().component("servlet").contextPath("/mycontext")
.port(8080).bindingMode(RestBindingMode.json);
rest("/myendpoint)
.get()
.route()
.to("bean:myService?method=myMethod()");
}
}
Example incoming message route:
@Component
public class MyRouteBuilder extends RouteBuilder {
@Autowired
private MyBean myBean;
@Override
public void configure() {
from(uri)
.unmarshal().json(JsonLibrary.Jackson)
.bean(myBean);
}
}
However, by default Camel creates its own ObjectMapper instances so does not pick up on either the JSR310 serializers/deserializers that Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder adds automatically, or the disabled WRITE_DATES_AS_TIMESTAMPS feature. I have read the Camel JSON documentation, but it does not show how to add a custom DataFormat using Spring configuration, or how to apply a global customisation for all types.
So how can I tell Camel to use my ObjectMapper, using only Spring Boot Java configuration?
