JSON DateTime Parsing Helpers
Reported by Matt Todd | March 26th, 2008 @ 10:01 PM | in Release 0.5.0
There should be a way to handle parsing a variety of Date/Time formats (strings) into actual Date/Time objects, and also a way to generate these formats (possibly allowing for customization).
For example:
Time.now.to_s(:json) #=> "2008-03-26 11:56:32 -0500"
Time.now.to_s(:json, :utc) #=> "2008-03-27T16:56:58Z"
"2008-03-27T16:56:58Z".to_date(:json) #=> #<Date:0x12a2d20>
Consider this for contribution to the Merb framework as well.
Comments and changes to this ticket
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Matt Todd March 26th, 2008 @ 10:04 PM
- Milestone changed from “Release 0.4.0” to “Release 0.5.0”
- State changed from “new” to “open”
Filed under Release 0.5.0.
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Matt Todd March 26th, 2008 @ 10:53 PM
Officially (or possibly unofficially), ISO 8601 Dates will be the default format for JSON 2's spec.
See: http://www.json.org/json2.js
Also: http://pastie.org/171357 which is how ActiveSupport automatically parses it.
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Matt Todd March 26th, 2008 @ 10:54 PM
http://dev.rubyonrails.org/brows...
This is how ActiveSupport parses JSON (via YAML). Nasty but it works.
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Matt Todd March 30th, 2008 @ 11:49 PM
- State changed from “open” to “resolved”
This issue may be resolved by the contributions planned for Merb.
http://merb.lighthouseapp.com/pr...
This just resolves Time#to_json rendering as ISO 8601 text; there's another contribution planned to make JSON.parse to convert text matching the ISO 8601 compatible strings to Time objects.
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