Handle Joda DateTime with Anorm 2.3

Question

I'm brand new to Play! and I'm using the version 2.3.4.

So far I used the java.util.Date type without problem but I finally want to use a DateTime type.

So I'm trying to use the org.joda.time.DateTime type but anorm doesn't know how to handle this type, I get this error : could not find implicit value for parameter extractor: anorm.Column[org.joda.time.DateTime] .

The part of the code giving an error is :

private val ArtistParser: RowParser[Artist] = {
    get[Long]("artistId") ~
    get[DateTime]("creationDateTime") map {
        case artistId ~ creationDateTime =>
        Artist(artistId, creationDateTime)
    }
}

My class is simply :

case class Artist (artistId: Long, creationDateTime: DateTime)

I have been searching a solution for a long time and I looked in particular at this post : Joda DateTime Field on Play Framework 2.0's Anorm but I think that it doesn't work with play 2.3.4 (at least I didn't manage to make it work).

So my question is how do you handle DateTime with play scala 2.3? Is there an easiest way to proceed? And if not what should I do in order to anorm to handle correctly the DateTime type?

Answer 1

Anorm typeclasses for Joda DateTime and Instant are present in play master. You may want to give it a try.