Re: [smila-user] smila date value vs. new processing

Thanks Thomas for pointing this out.

I discussed this with JÃrgen yesterday and we came up with several solutions of which we both currently prefer the one that adds the type of the value in the string value (of course only for date and timestamp values):

Â - an Any-Date would be serialized as â2011-01-01@type:dateâ,

ÂÂ- an Any-Timestamp would be serialized as â2011-01-01T12:34:56.789+0200@type:timestampâ

The effort to implement this solution would be minimal (compared to other solutions). Besides that we will handle this problem exactly the same both in JSON and in BON.

What do you think?

BTW: This approach is not new: http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy/archive/2008/01/18/dates-and-json.aspx

Cheers

Igor

Von: smila-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:smila-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] Im Auftrag von Thomas Menzel
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 28. September 2011 09:47
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Ok thx.

I have opened bug https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=359187 for this and had to give it major prio (after considering critical) due to the effect on existing installations.

@igor

We need to see if that stalls our release.

Thomas Menzel @ brox IT-Solutions GmbH

From: smila-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:smila-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of JÃrgen Schumacher
Sent: Mittwoch, 28. September 2011 08:48
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Subject: Re: [smila-user] smila date value vs. new processing

Hi,

Yes, good point, I was bothered about this myself, but there were other prioritiesâ

I think it should be simple to extend BON to include the type information for string values, and that should solve most problems. Iâll have a look into it when making the specs public, but Iâll also have to do some discussions with colleagues.

Iâm not sure yet what we good do about it in JSON. Maybe we could use JSON annotations. Iâll have to take a look into it.

Cheers,

JÃrgen.

From: smila-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:smila-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Thomas Menzel
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 4:39 PM
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Subject: [smila-user] smila date value vs. new processing

Hi folks,

The json spec states that dates are converted to strings and if u need dates u convert them urself if needed. I want to use XML anyhow, so no problem, right?

Well, not quite it seems. With the new processing (no AMQ) it seems that internally Json/BON is used and as a consequence I donât get date values anymore into my pipelines.

Is there any way to preserve the date value as a type? Any tricks?

If not: I think we would need to amend this! After all: what would be the point of the date type then?

Thomas Menzel @ brox IT-Solutions GmbH

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