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package com.lone.common.core.json;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

import org.codehaus.jackson.JsonGenerator;
import org.codehaus.jackson.JsonProcessingException;
import org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonSerializer;
import org.codehaus.jackson.map.SerializerProvider;

/**
 * Used to serialize Java.util.Date, which is not a common JSON
 * type, so we have to create a custom serialize method;.
 *
 * @author Loiane Groner
 */
@Component
public class JsonDateSerializer extends JsonSerializer{

	private static final SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");

	@Override
	public void serialize(Date date, JsonGenerator gen, SerializerProvider provider)
			throws IOException, JsonProcessingException {

		String formattedDate = dateFormat.format(date);

		gen.writeString(formattedDate);
	}

}