Re: [flexcoders] Flex, C# Web Services, and Dates

[Matthew Shirey]

Following up on my last email... Here's some examples of different
dates providing slightly different formats coming from the web service:

Hardcoded to DateTime.Now (this is the only one that seems to work with flex):

<StartDate>2005-06-27T18:40:41.390625-07:00</StartDate> 


Hardcoded to new DateTime(), no parameters:

<StartDate>0001-01-01T00:00:00</StartDate>


Hardcoded to new DateTime(2006, 6, 1, 0, 0, 0):

<StartDate>2006-06-01T00:00:00</StartDate>


Reading value from database:

<StartDate>2005-06-01T00:00:00</StartDate>


I even tried converting to local time using dt.toLocalTime():

<StartDate>2005-05-31T17:00:00-07:00</StartDate>

this actually seems like its closest to the DateTime.Now attempt, but
it is still not recognized by flex.  It seems like flex needs to
have the milliseconds there?  Anyway, I sure hope someone else has
a clue what to do, this one really has me stumped.  I'm close to
coding my own date object to hold the year, month, day, hour, minutes,
and seconds values seprately and turn them back into a date once flex
has them.  Again, this seems a little extreme for a situation
where it should just work...  any thoughts?

-- Matthew



On 6/27/05, Matthew Shirey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
well, the WSDL says:

<s:element minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="
1" name="StartDate" 
type="s:dateTime" />

Because I am close to pulling all my hair out on this one, I decided to
try something on the server end.  In the web method, I hard coded
the StartDate propery to return DateTime.Now.  To my surpise, this
actually worked.  I then tried hardcoding it to return new
DateTime(2005, 6, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0).  This produced the original
error.  It seems like things are a little wierd on both
ends.  Depending on the date value on the server end, the server
is actually sending the XML formatted differently.  I am more
confused now than ever.  Does any one here have any experience
using C# Web Services with Flex using the C# DateTime type?  I
would be interested in some best practices type guidlines. 
However the DateTime.Now value is delt with, it works, but any other
date value I create doesn't work.  It's quite confusing...

-- Matthew
On 6/27/05, Rick Bullotta <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

















The YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS format is from .NET's
default XML serializer, which uses something like an ISO date format (.NET's
format string "s").   When you dump it on the server side, it is probably just
using the object's ToString() method, which seems like it chose a different
format.  One question, I guess, is what schema data type the WSDL is telling
Flex to expect.  Second question (to the Macromedia crew) is how Flex handles
deserialization depending on what that schema data type is….

 

- Rick

 









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flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] 

On Behalf Of Matthew Shirey
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 6:41
PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Flex, C#
Web Services, and Dates



 

Thanks for the reply, I
did try what you suggested just to be sure, but like I said before, it seems
that by the time the result event handler has fired, the data is already
bad.  I just cannot see why the XML in the SOAP response is:

<StartDate>2005-06-01T00:00:00</StartDate>

yet the object created is:

StartDate[Local Time] : Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 1969
(+0:00)


this just doesn't make any sense...

-- Matthew



On 6/27/05, Rick Bullotta <

[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:



Here's an example with an HttpService, you can
do something similar:

 

Add:

 

result="manageData(event)"

 

…to your mx:HttpService tag…

 

Define the handler something like this, where
it will look through the returned data structure and replace the StartDate
objects with a "parsed" version…in my example, my structure is a
multi-row XML document.  One of the elements is named "DateTime"
and is in the same format you are trying to parse.  If you only have a
single row, the handler might look slightly different.

 

function manageData(event) {

           
for(var i:Number=0; i< event.result.Row.length; i++) {

           
            var d:Date =
parseDateString(event.result.Row[i].DateTime);

           
           
event.result.Rowsets.Rowset.Row[i].DateTime = d;

           
}

}

           
           
            



- Rick











From: 

flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of Matthew Shirey
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 6:13
PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re:
[flexcoders] Flex, C# Web Services, and Dates



 



Might you have some information on where to put this
exactly?  It seems like it's too late by the time the object has been
created from the result of the web service call.  All it seems to contain
is "Invalid Date".  When I look at the object that was created
in the Network Monitor, it does seem to have a date, but not the one I sent
it.  

From the network monitor, here's the date piece of the xml recieved in the SOAP
"Response" entry:

<StartDate>2005-06-01T00:00:00</StartDate>

Here's the piece of the object created from the Network Monitor Web Service
"onResult" entry :

StartDate[Local Time] : Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 1969
(+0:00)

as you can see, it doesn't even have the proper value in it.  I've created
an onResult event handler to try to print out the value and all I get from
obj.StartDate is "Invalid Date".

This one really has me stuck guys.  Any help would be greatly appreciated,
thank you,

-- Matthew



On
6/25/05, Manish Jethani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

On 6/25/05, Rick Bullotta
<
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Is there a way to use the import statement in "inline" script in
an
> <mx:Script> block?  The compiler complains if we try this.


Yes, certainly.

  <mx:Script>
    import foo.Bar;

    function blah():Void
    {
      Bar.bar();
    }
  </mx:Script>

Must be something wrong with the way you are importing.  If you still

have the problem, you could post the exact compiler error.


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