JSON Serializing date in a custom format (Can not construct instance of java.util.Date from String value)

Annotate your created_date field with the JsonFormat annotation to specify the output format.

@JsonFormat(pattern = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss", timezone = TimeZone.getDefault(), locale = Locale.getDefault())

Note that you may need to pass in a different Locale and TimeZone if they should be based on something other than what the server uses.

You can find out more information in the docs.

I have the same problem, so I write a custom date deserialization with @JsonDeserialize(using=CustomerDateAndTimeDeserialize.class)

public class CustomerDateAndTimeDeserialize extends JsonDeserializer<Date> {

    private SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(
            "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");

    @Override
    public Date deserialize(JsonParser paramJsonParser,
            DeserializationContext paramDeserializationContext)
            throws IOException, JsonProcessingException {
        String str = paramJsonParser.getText().trim();
        try {
            return dateFormat.parse(str);
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            // Handle exception here
        }
        return paramDeserializationContext.parseDate(str);
    }
}