Serializing Joda DateTime with Jackson and Spring -

i having problems consistently serializing , deserializing joda datetime java json , again using spring boot , jackson-databind 2.5.2. pom.xml looks this.

    <dependency>     <groupid>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupid>     <artifactid>jackson-databind</artifactid>     <version>2.5.2</version> </dependency>  <dependency>     <groupid>com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype</groupid>     <artifactid>jackson-datatype-joda</artifactid>     <version>2.5.2</version> </dependency>  <dependency>     <groupid>org.springframework.boot</groupid>     <artifactid>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactid>     <version>1.2.1.release</version> </dependency> 

when serialize datetime object integer representing datetime. not expected actually, fine. when go save object following error...

failed convert property value of type 'java.lang.string' required type 'org.joda.time.datetime' property 'endtime'; nested exception org.springframework.core.convert.conversionfailedexception: failed convert type java.lang.string type org.joda.time.datetime value '1428600998511' 

for reason serializing integer deserializing if it's string, not. tried setting endtime = new date(intvalue) before calling rest service , failed trying convert string 'tue apr 28 2015 00:00:00 gmt-0700 (pdt)' datetime.

what doing wrong?

update:

here json and try post right back.

{     id: 4,     username: "",     name: "eau",     email: "aoue",     verbatimlocation: null,     latitude: null,     longitude: null,     starttime:null,     endtime: 1429034332312,     description: "ueoa",     media: [ ],     timesubmitted: 1428600998000,     status: null,     submissionid: null } 

for more re-usable mechanism, can create jsonserializer:

/**  * when passing json around, it's use standard text representation of  * date, rather full details of joda datetime object. therefore,  * serialize value iso-8601 standard:  * <pre>yyyy-mm-dd't'hh:mm:ss.sssz</pre>  * can parsed javascript library such moment.js.  */ public class jsonjodadatetimeserializer extends jsonserializer<datetime> {      private static datetimeformatter formatter = isodatetimeformat.datetime();      @override     public void serialize(datetime value, jsongenerator gen, serializerprovider arg2)             throws ioexception, jsonprocessingexception {          gen.writestring(formatter.print(value));     }  } 

then can annotate get methods with:

@jsonserialize(using = jsonjodadatetimeserializer.class) 

this gives consistent formatting throughout application, without repeating text patterns everywhere. it's timezone aware.