Continue work on property-config-overrides: now works with Dates, for format

1 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/Module.java b/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/Module.java
index 37ca295c0..4e7b3de64 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/Module.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/Module.java
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package com.fasterxml.jackson.databind;
 
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.*;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.cfg.MutablePropertyConfigOverride;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializerModifier;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.DeserializationProblemHandler;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.Deserializers;
@@ -143,6 +144,31 @@ public abstract class Module
         public boolean isEnabled(JsonParser.Feature f);
 
         public boolean isEnabled(JsonGenerator.Feature f);
+
+        /*
+        /**********************************************************
+        /* Mutant accessors
+        /**********************************************************
+         */
+
+        /**
+         * "Mutant accessor" for getting a mutable configuration override object for
+         * given type, needed to add or change per-type overrides applied
+         * to properties of given type.
+         * Usage is through returned object by colling "setter" methods, which
+         * directly modify override object and take effect directly.
+         * For example you can do
+         *<pre>
+         *   mapper.configOverride(java.util.Date.class)
+         *       .setFormat(JsonFormat.Value.forPattern("yyyy-MM-dd"));
+         *<pre>
+         * to change the default format to use for properties of type
+         * {@link java.util.Date} (possibly further overridden by per-property
+         * annotations)
+         *
+         * @since 2.8
+         */
+        public MutablePropertyConfigOverride configOverride(Class<?> type);
         
         /*
         /**********************************************************