java - Set MongoDb converter programmatically

Question

I'm trying to use a custom converter with spring-data-mongodb. I want to create it programmatically, but I get the following error:

org.springframework.core.convert.ConverterNotFoundException: No converter found capable of     converting from type org.joda.time.LocalDate to type java.lang.String
at org.springframework.core.convert.support.GenericConversionService.handleConverterNotFound(GenericConversionService.java:475)
at org.springframework.core.convert.support.GenericConversionService.convert(GenericConversionService.java:175)
at org.springframework.core.convert.support.GenericConversionService.convert(GenericConversionService.java:154)
....
....

The following is the failing code snippet:

    Mongo mongo = new Mongo();
    MongoDbFactory mongoDbFactory = new SimpleMongoDbFactory(mongo, "database");

    List<Converter> converters = new ArrayList<>();
    converters.add(new LocalDateWriteConverter());
    converters.add(new LocalDateReadConverter());
    CustomConversions customConversions = new CustomConversions(converters);

    MappingContext mappingContext = new SimpleMongoMappingContext();
    MappingMongoConverter mappingMongoConverter = new MappingMongoConverter(mongoDbFactory, mappingContext);
    mappingMongoConverter.setCustomConversions(customConversions);

    MongoTemplate mongoTemplate = new MongoTemplate(mongoDbFactory, mappingMongoConverter);

    MongoDbEvent mongoEvent = new MongoDbEvent(new LocalDate(2012, 12, 8));
    mongoTemplate.insert(mongoEvent);

And here are my converter classes:

class LocalDateReadConverter implements Converter<String, LocalDate> {
    @Override
    public LocalDate convert(String s) {
        // Conversion code omitted.
    }
}

class LocalDateWriteConverter implements Converter<LocalDate, String> {

    @Override
    public String convert(LocalDate localDate) {
        // Conversion code omitted.
    }
}

The class I'm trying to persist looks like this:

import org.joda.time.LocalDate;

public class MongoDbEvent {

    private String id;
    private LocalDate date;

    public MongoDbEvent(LocalDate date) {
        this.date = date;
    }

    public String getId() {
        return id;
    }

    public LocalDate getDate() {
        return date;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return "MongoDbEvent{" +
                "id='" + id + ''' +
                ", date=" + date +
                '}';
        }
}

Answer 1

This answer may be a little late for the OP, but I just ran into the same problem today and found a solution...

To set it up programmatically, you need to call MongoMappingConverter.afterPropertiesSet() before you use it. I realized this from reading the code for MongoTemplate.getDefaultMongoConverter(MongoDbFactory).

Here's an example:

MappingMongoConverter converter = new MappingMongoConverter(mongoDbFactory, context);
converter.setTypeMapper(mapper);
converter.setCustomConversions(new CustomConversions(
        Arrays.asList(
                new TimeZoneReadConverter(),
                new TimeZoneWriteConverter()
        )
));
converter.afterPropertiesSet();
MongoTemplate template = new MongoTemplate(mongoDbFactory, converter);