Jackson is "the Java JSON library" or "the best JSON parser for Java". Or simply as "JSON for Java".

Jackson Annotations Source Code files are provided in the source packge (jackson-annotations-2.12.4-sources.jar). You can download it at Jackson Maven Website.

You can also browse Jackson Annotations Source Code below:

⏎ com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/ser/std/DateSerializer.java

package com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.std;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.util.*;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.*;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.*;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.annotation.JacksonStdImpl;

/**
 * For efficiency, we will serialize Dates as longs, instead of
 * potentially more readable Strings.
 */
@JacksonStdImpl
@SuppressWarnings("serial")
public class DateSerializer
    extends DateTimeSerializerBase<Date>
{
    /**
     * Default instance that is used when no contextual configuration
     * is needed.
     */
    public static final DateSerializer instance = new DateSerializer();
    
    public DateSerializer() {
        this(null, null);
    }
        
    public DateSerializer(Boolean useTimestamp, DateFormat customFormat) {
        super(Date.class, useTimestamp, customFormat);
    }

    @Override
    public DateSerializer withFormat(Boolean timestamp, DateFormat customFormat) {
        return new DateSerializer(timestamp, customFormat);
    }

    @Override
    protected long _timestamp(Date value) {
        return (value == null) ? 0L : value.getTime();
    }

    @Override
    public void serialize(Date value, JsonGenerator g, SerializerProvider provider) throws IOException
    {
        if (_asTimestamp(provider)) {
            g.writeNumber(_timestamp(value));
            return;
        }
        _serializeAsString(value, g, provider);
    }
}

⏎ com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/ser/std/DateSerializer.java

 

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