How to use

DateFormatContainer

in

org.dozer.converters

public DateFormat getDateFormat() {
 if (dateFormat == null) {
  dateFormat = determineDateFormat();
 }
 return dateFormat;
}

public Object convert(Class destClass, Object srcObj) {
  String result;
  Class srcClass = srcObj.getClass();
  if (dateFormatContainer != null && java.util.Date.class.isAssignableFrom(srcClass) && dateFormatContainer
    .getDateFormat() != null) {
    result = dateFormatContainer.getDateFormat().format((java.util.Date) srcObj);
  } else if (dateFormatContainer != null && java.util.Calendar.class
    .isAssignableFrom(srcClass) && dateFormatContainer.getDateFormat() != null) {
    result = dateFormatContainer.getDateFormat().format(((java.util.Calendar) srcObj).getTime());
  } else {
    result = srcObj.toString();
  }
  return result;
}

 import org.dozer.converters.DateFormatContainer;
import org.dozer.converters.PrimitiveOrWrapperConverter;

public class DozerPrimitiveMapping {


  public static void main(String[] args) {

    PrimitiveOrWrapperConverter primitiveConverter = new PrimitiveOrWrapperConverter();
    //DateFormatContainer is not needed in this String-to-Boolean use case, but the converter would throw an error if it was null
    DateFormatContainer dateFormatContainer = new DateFormatContainer("");
    Boolean booleanResult= (Boolean) primitiveConverter.convert("true", Boolean.class, dateFormatContainer);
    System.out.println("Boolean result from dozer: "+booleanResult);
  }
}

destFieldType, new DateFormatContainer(fieldMapping.getDateFormat()));

new DateFormatContainer(fieldMapping.getDateFormat()));

public Object convert(Class destClass, Object srcObj) {
 String result;
 Class srcClass = srcObj.getClass();
 if (dateFormatContainer != null && java.util.Date.class.isAssignableFrom(srcClass)
   && dateFormatContainer.getDateFormat() != null) {
  result = dateFormatContainer.getDateFormat().format((java.util.Date) srcObj);
 } else if (dateFormatContainer != null && java.util.Calendar.class.isAssignableFrom(srcClass)
   && dateFormatContainer.getDateFormat() != null) {
  result = dateFormatContainer.getDateFormat().format(((java.util.Calendar) srcObj).getTime());
 } else {
  result = srcObj.toString();
 }
 return result;
}

public DateFormat getDateFormat() {
  if (dateFormat == null) {
    dateFormat = determineDateFormat();
  }
  return dateFormat;
}

DateFormatContainer dfContainer = new DateFormatContainer(fieldMap.getDateFormat());

private Converter getPrimitiveOrWrapperConverter(Class destClass, DateFormatContainer dateFormatContainer) {
  if (String.class.equals(destClass)) {
    return new StringConverter(dateFormatContainer);
  }
  Converter result = CONVERTER_MAP.get(ClassUtils.primitiveToWrapper(destClass));
  if (result == null) {
    if (java.util.Date.class.isAssignableFrom(destClass)) {
      result = new DateConverter(dateFormatContainer.getDateFormat());
    } else if (Calendar.class.isAssignableFrom(destClass)) {
      result = new CalendarConverter(dateFormatContainer.getDateFormat());
    } else if (XMLGregorianCalendar.class.isAssignableFrom(destClass)) {
      result = new XMLGregorianCalendarConverter(dateFormatContainer.getDateFormat());
    }
  }
  return result == null ? new StringConstructorConverter(dateFormatContainer) : result;
}

  destFieldType = fieldMap.getDestHintContainer().getHint();
DateFormatContainer dfContainer = new DateFormatContainer(fieldMap.getDateFormat());

private Converter getPrimitiveOrWrapperConverter(Class destClass, DateFormatContainer dateFormatContainer) {
 if (String.class.equals(destClass)) {
  return new StringConverter(dateFormatContainer);
 }
 Converter result = CONVERTER_MAP.get(ClassUtils.primitiveToWrapper(destClass));
 if (result == null) {
  if (java.util.Date.class.isAssignableFrom(destClass)) {
   result = new DateConverter(dateFormatContainer.getDateFormat());
  } else if (Calendar.class.isAssignableFrom(destClass) ) {
   result = new CalendarConverter(dateFormatContainer.getDateFormat());
  } else if (XMLGregorianCalendar.class.isAssignableFrom(destClass)){
   result = new XMLGregorianCalendarConverter(dateFormatContainer.getDateFormat());
  } else if (MappingUtils.isEnumType(destClass)){
   result = new EnumConverter();
  }
 }
 return result == null ? new StringConstructorConverter(dateFormatContainer) : result;
}

  destFieldType = fieldMap.getDestHintContainer().getHint();
DateFormatContainer dfContainer = new DateFormatContainer(fieldMap.getDateFormat());