8. Type Conversions (Java ~ ActionScript3)

package test.converters;

import java.lang.reflect.Type;
import java.util.Date;

import org.granite.messaging.amf.io.convert.Converter;
import org.granite.messaging.amf.io.convert.Converters;
import org.granite.messaging.amf.io.convert.Reverter;
import org.granite.util.ClassUtil;

import org.joda.time.DateTime;

public class JodaDateTime2Date extends Converter implements Reverter {

    public JodaDateTime2Date(Converters converters) {
        super(converters);
    }

    // AMF3Deserialization (Converter)...

    @Override
    protected boolean internalCanConvert(Object value, Type targetType) {
        Class<?> targetClass = ClassUtil.classOfType(targetType);
        return (
            targetClass.isAssignableFrom(DateTime.class) &&
            (value == null || value instanceof Date)
        );
    }

    @Override
    protected Object internalConvert(Object value, Type targetType) {
        return (value == null ? null : new DateTime(((Date)value).getTime()));
    }

    // AMF3Serialization (Reverter)...

    public boolean canRevert(Object value) {
        return value instanceof DateTime;
    }

    public Object revert(Object value) {
        return ((DateTime)value).toDate();
    }
}

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE granite-config PUBLIC
    "-//Granite Data Services//DTD granite-config internal//EN"
    "http://www.graniteds.org/public/dtd/2.0.0/granite-config.dtd">

<granite-config>
  <converters>
    <converter type="test.converters.JodaDateTime2Date" />
  <converters>
</granite-config>

import org.joda.time.DateTime;

private var myDate:DateTime = null;

package test.factory;

import org.granite.generator.as3.As3Type;
import org.granite.generator.as3.DefaultAs3TypeFactory;

import org.joda.time.DateTime;

public class MyAs3TypeFactory extends DefaultAs3TypeFactory {

    @Override
    protected As3Type createAs3Type(Class<?> jType) {
        if (jType instanceof DateTime)
            return As3Type.DATE;
        return super.createAs3Type(jType);
    }
}

<gas3 as3typefactory="test.factory.MyAs3TypeFactory" ...>
    ...
    <classpath>
        ...
        <pathelement location="path/to/my/factory"/>
    </classpath>
    ...
</gas3>