[GROOVY-5036] Date and Calendar JSON serialization yields stackoverflow errors

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.2, 1.9-beta-3
• Fix Version/s: 1.8.3, 1.9-beta-4
• Assignee: Guillaume Sauthier
• Reporter: Guillaume Sauthier
• Created: 22/Sep/11 07:26
• Updated: 14/Oct/11 00:28
• Resolved: 22/Sep/11 07:32

Description

Date and Calendar contain references to themselves, and the standard object properties serialization logic tries to serialize an infinite chains of such references, yielding a stack overflow error.

The idea is to serialize those dates and calendars into ISO-8601 compliant date strings, that are also parseable from JavaScript with Date.parse(...).