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Spring MVC with Jaxb2Marshaller failing on 2013 dates

I have a Spring MVC project that accepts XML input via a the PUT method. One of the elements in the XML is a dateTime. I am using a Jaxb2Marshaller to unmarshal the XML into a bean. I have a unit test that runs against the webapp running on a server.

When I send in a timestamp using new GregorianCalendar(2012, 01, 02) everything works well and my application receives the Object.

However, if I update my test to use new GregorianCalendar(2013, 01, 02) that field in the Object is returned as null.

Notice that the only difference is the year, 2012 vs 2013. I do not see any error messages in the application log, localhost or catalina.out.

Thoughts?

Edit: Additional Info...

I am using the DataTypeConverter to convert from dateTime to Calendar. So my schema has the following (and I am using XJC to convert the schema to Java classes).

<annotation><appinfo><jaxb:globalBinding>
      <jaxb:javaType name="java.util.Calendar" xmlType="dateTime"
          parseMethod="javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter.parseDate"
          printMethod="javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter.pringDate"/>
</jaxb:globalBinding></appinfo></annotation>
Solution

  • So I got rid of the mapping to Calendar and allowed XJC to produce the Java classes with XMLGregorianCalendar. This seemed to resolve the issue. Still seems strange so am open to insight.