Answer by Genzer Hawker

Genzer Hawker — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 02:27:12 -0400

Hi tiago

You may want to create a override, call customClass in axis2:

public class ConvertDateWithoutTimeZone extends ConverterUtil {

    public static String convertToString(java.util.Date value) {
        /*
         * Since SimpleDateFormat is not thread-safe. We have to create a new
         * instance every time we need to format a Date.
         */
        return new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd").format(value);
    }
}

1st approach

You may want to package your class into a JAR file, put it in the ${ivy.engine}/webapps/ivy/WEB-INF/ and follow the way to set the system property as described in http://stackoverflow.com/a/5484319/495558. The ConverterUtil calls Class.forName to instantiate your class at runtime but it may not work because your class is usually loaded by PMV ClassLoader. So putting the custom converter class in the webapps/WEB-INF enables it to be loaded.

2nd approach

Long time ago, our project also have a similar issue when we want to control the format of Date generating by axis2. After creating the custom class, before each WebService step, we invoke:

java.lang.reflect.Field isCustomClassPresentField = org.apache.axis2.databinding.utils.ConverterUtil.class
        .getDeclaredField("isCustomClassPresent");
isCustomClassPresentField.setAccessible(true);
isCustomClassPresentField.setBoolean(null, true);
isCustomClassPresentField.setAccessible(false);
java.lang.reflect.Field customClassField = org.apache.axis2.databinding.utils.ConverterUtil.class
        .getDeclaredField("customClass");
customClassField.setAccessible(true);
customClassField.set(null, ConvertDateWithoutTimeZone.class);
customClassField.setAccessible(false);

The idea is to replace the field isCustomClassPresent and the customClass using Reflection instead of using system property approach.

Answers to: Axis2 Date Converter

Answer by Genzer Hawker