Question

I am having some problem mapping my Java Data Type to standard Schema Date data type.

I have a simple class that I annotated like this. The period instance variable is of Java Date object type.

@XmlAccessorType(value = XmlAccessType.NONE)
public class Chart {
    @XmlElement
    private double amount;
    @XmlElement
    private double amountDue;
    @XmlElement
    private Date period;
    //constructor getters and setters
}

Here is my Web Service

@WebService
public class ChartFacade {
    @WebMethod
    public Chart getChart() throws ParseException {
      SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-mm-dd");
      Chart chart = new Chart(20.0,20.5, df.parse("2001-01-01"));
      return chart;
    }
}

My problem is it returns the date data in a format not according to what I am expecting.

<S:Envelope xmlns:S="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
   <S:Body>
      <ns2:getChartResponse xmlns:ns2="http://ss.ugbu.oracle.com/">
         <return>
            <amount>20.0</amount>
            <amountDue>20.5</amountDue>
            **<period>2001-01-01T00:01:00+08:00</period>**
         </return>
      </ns2:getChartResponse>
   </S:Body>
</S:Envelope>

I wanted the period element to be returned like this

<period>2001-01-01</period>

Is there any way I can achieve this?

Answer 1

You can do the following to control the schema type:

@XmlElement
@XmlSchemaType(name="date")
private Date period;

For More Information:

• http://bdoughan.blogspot.com/2011/01/jaxb-and-datetime-properties.html