How to deserialize JS date using Jackson?

I found a work around but with this I'll need to annotate each date's setter throughout the project. Is there a way in which I can specify the format while creating the ObjectMapper?

Here's what I did:

public class CustomJsonDateDeserializer extends JsonDeserializer<Date>{    @Override    public Date deserialize(JsonParser jsonParser,            DeserializationContext deserializationContext) throws IOException, JsonProcessingException {        SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss");        String date = jsonParser.getText();        try {            return format.parse(date);        } catch (ParseException e) {            throw new RuntimeException(e);        }    }}

And annotated each Date field's setter method with this:

@JsonDeserialize(using = CustomJsonDateDeserializer.class)

This works for me - i am using jackson 2.0.4

ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();final DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss");objectMapper.setDateFormat(df);

There is a good blog about this topic:http://www.baeldung.com/jackson-serialize-dates Use @JsonFormat looks the most simple way.

public class Event {    public String name;    @JsonFormat      (shape = JsonFormat.Shape.STRING, pattern = "dd-MM-yyyy hh:mm:ss")    public Date eventDate;}