Michael Calmer wrote: % Hi, % % a user found an inconsistency in the ChannelSerializer. % % Calling channel.software.associateRepo() return a channel struct % which contains the key "yumrepo_last_sync". It is documented as % dateTime.iso8601 . But the result for a "never synced" channel is an empty % "string". % % The reason can be found in % java/.../rhn/frontend/xmlrpc/serializer/ChannelSerializer.java Line 125 % % In case getLastSynced() returns null, an empty string is added via the helper % and not a Date object. % % I see two possible fixes: % % 1) return "new Date(0)" instead of an empty string (01/01/1970) % % 2) break the API and declare "yumrepo_last_sync" as optional and do not return % this key in case the repo was not synced yet. % % Which fix would you prefer? Are there other possible fixes?
Hi Michael, the second option is the preferred one. -- Michael Mráka Satellite Engineering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-devel mailing list Spacewalk-devel@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-devel
