REST calls: allow more flexibility in parsing of submitted date values

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Type: Improvement
Status: Closed
Priority: Major
Resolution: Fixed
Affects Version/s: 1.0.2
Fix Version/s: 1.2-M3
Component/s: Commons
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Description

Graeme:

I believe we use DateFormat.SHORT, can't recall exactly, but .. we should probably support parsing the date back in the same format it was sent. I would raise a JIRA

Cheers

On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Dierk König <dierk.koenig@canoo.com> wrote:

> I wonder about the line
> <releaseDate>2007-11-27 11:52:53.447</releaseDate> though. How is
> the date format interpreted?
> Is there a conventional format?
> In fact, the example doesn't work for me and I have to do the date
> parsing manually like:
>
> def saveRest = {
> params.myobj.mydate = new MyDateFormat().parse(params.myobj.mydate)
> def myobj = new MyClass(params.myobj)
>
> otherwise I get null for the mydate.

BTW: the docs also need to be more specific about this.

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Graeme Rocher made changes - 07/Apr/08 4:34 AM

Field	Original Value	New Value
Fix Version/s	1.0.3 [ 14124 ]
Fix Version/s		1.0.4 [ 14156 ]
Description	Graeme: I believe we use DateFormat.SHORT, can't recall exactly, but .. we should probably support parsing the date back in the same format it was sent. I would raise a JIRA Cheers On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Dierk König <dierk.koenig@canoo.com> wrote: > I wonder about the line > <releaseDate>2007-11-27 11:52:53.447</releaseDate> though. How is > the date format interpreted? > Is there a conventional format? > In fact, the example doesn't work for me and I have to do the date > parsing manually like: > > def saveRest = { > params.myobj.mydate = new MyDateFormat().parse(params.myobj.mydate) > def myobj = new MyClass(params.myobj) > > otherwise I get null for the mydate. BTW: the docs also need to be more specific about this.	Graeme: I believe we use DateFormat.SHORT, can't recall exactly, but .. we should probably support parsing the date back in the same format it was sent. I would raise a JIRA Cheers On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Dierk König <dierk.koenig@canoo.com> wrote: > I wonder about the line > <releaseDate>2007-11-27 11:52:53.447</releaseDate> though. How is > the date format interpreted? > Is there a conventional format? > In fact, the example doesn't work for me and I have to do the date > parsing manually like: > > def saveRest = { > params.myobj.mydate = new MyDateFormat().parse(params.myobj.mydate) > def myobj = new MyClass(params.myobj) > > otherwise I get null for the mydate. BTW: the docs also need to be more specific about this.