Using application property in Spring Boot annotation?

February 19, 2023

I have the following date field in my DTO class:

@JsonFormat(pattern="dd.MM.yyyy")
private LocalDateTime date;

I define the date format in my application.yml as shown below:

spring:
  jackson:
    date-format: "dd.MM.yyyy"

I am trying to use this format in my DTO field directly like below:

@JsonFormat(pattern="${spring.jackson.date-format}")
private LocalDateTime date;

Is it possible? Or do ı have to add a @Value field like below? I tried but cannot use this dateFormat in my date field.

@Value("${spring.jackson.date-format}")
private String dateFormat;

>Solution :

You have good tips here: https://www.baeldung.com/spring-boot-formatting-json-dates

Either configure the default format, like

spring.jackson.date-format=dd.MM.yyyy

or configure the serializer:

@Configuration
public class MyJsonConfig {
    @Value("${spring.jackson.date-format}")
    private String dateFormat;

    @Bean
    public Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilderCustomizer jsonCustomizer() {
        return builder -> {
            builder.simpleDateFormat(dateTimeFormat);
            builder.serializers(new LocalDateSerializer(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern(dateFormat)));
            builder.serializers(new LocalDateTimeSerializer(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern(dateFormat)));
        };
    }
}