From 9b550e6554f0432f9e93a1f20273398909f17369 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mherbaghinyan <mbaghinyan@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 15:00:38 +0400
Subject: [PATCH] localdate converter

---
 .../com/baeldung/util/LocalDateConverter.java | 25 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 persistence-modules/spring-boot-persistence/src/main/java/com/baeldung/util/LocalDateConverter.java

diff --git a/persistence-modules/spring-boot-persistence/src/main/java/com/baeldung/util/LocalDateConverter.java b/persistence-modules/spring-boot-persistence/src/main/java/com/baeldung/util/LocalDateConverter.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..341492d1fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/persistence-modules/spring-boot-persistence/src/main/java/com/baeldung/util/LocalDateConverter.java
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+package com.baeldung.util;
+
+import javax.persistence.AttributeConverter;
+import javax.persistence.Converter;
+import java.sql.Date;
+import java.time.LocalDate;
+import java.util.Optional;
+
+@Converter(autoApply = true)
+public class LocalDateConverter implements AttributeConverter<LocalDate, Date> {
+
+    @Override
+    public Date convertToDatabaseColumn(LocalDate localDateTime) {
+        return Optional.ofNullable(localDateTime)
+                .map(Date::valueOf)
+                .orElse(null);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public LocalDate convertToEntityAttribute(Date timestamp) {
+        return Optional.ofNullable(timestamp)
+                .map(Date::toLocalDate)
+                .orElse(null);
+    }
+}
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