RESTful Java Web Services - Third Edition

Sample JSON file representing employee objects

Here is a sample JSON document file called emp-array.json, which contains the JSON array of the employee objects. The content of the file is as follows:

[ {"employeeId":100,"firstName":"John","lastName":"Chen",   "email":"[e-mail]","hireDate":"2008-10-16"},   {"employeeId":101,"firstName":"Ameya","lastName":"Job",   "email":"[e-mail]","hireDate":"2013-03-06"},   {"employeeId":102,"firstName":"Pat","lastName":"Fay", "email":"[e-mail]","hireDate":"2001-03-06"} ]  

javax.json.JsonValue does not have a DATE ValueType. In the previous example, hireDate will be treated as a STRING type, so handling of DATE values requires explicit parsing as per the date format.

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