There is also a dates JQuery plugin which seems to be able to convert a string date in a Date javascript object: this could be useful as you can have Json serialize dates as strings and then convert them to javascript Date objects. Anyone tried it?
carlo On 15 Gen, 16:10, achipa <attila.cs...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, I've taken a brief look > > 1) agreed > 2) I got the impression the 'new Date..' is stored as string in the > JSON object, and thus it would be indistinguishable from a regular > string field with the same content, but if it's just for eval-ing, it > works (although I always get goosebumps when I see code in JSON, the > next iteration of ecma is introducing parsejson() instead of eval() > for exactly this reason). I guess it's about choice. > 3) it's ok, as long as you don't use/care about TZ > > On Jan 15, 2:57 pm, Timothy Farrell <tfarr...@swgen.com> wrote: > > > Did you look at my implementation? > > > 1) Yes, this is a problem, but we can't get around it when we still need > > a solution. My solution works for Python 2.5 and 2.6 and the dates are > > supported in all major, modern browsers. > > 2) My implementation doesn't use strings in a JSON object. It relies on > > the JSON parser parsing the JSON as a Javascript engine would. > > 3) My implementation doesn't parse a timestamp string, rather it builds > > a Javascript date object using the date. That should be a little more > > cross-locale (is that the right term?) > > > -tim > > > achipa wrote: > > > I believe json doesn't do this by default for at least a couple of > > > reasons > > > > a) the solution would be programming language/version/application > > > specific > > > b) you can't differentiate strings from dates as json has no metadata > > > on it's fields > > > c) you'd have to stick to a RFC style complicated date parser to avoid > > > regional (=date format) problems > > > > I actually made a patch for this myself, but it's much more cludgy > > > (that's why I didn't post it here), in my solution made the field look > > > like TIMESTAMP#TZ and added a #DATE to the key name (since I load it, > > > too, a hook removes this and recreates the date object transparently). > > > > On Jan 14, 7:39 pm, Timothy Farrell <tfarr...@swgen.com> wrote: > > > >> Yes, it works for date but it does not work for time. I'm not sure how > > >> this would look implemented into web2py. (You should read the page more > > >> thoroughly.) > > > >> -Tim > > > >> mdipierro wrote: > > > >>> fantastic. can you email me a patch? > > >>> does it work for date and time too? > > > >>> On Jan 14, 11:35 am, Timothy Farrell <tfarr...@swgen.com> wrote: > > > >>>> BAM! > > > >>>>https://mdp.cti.depaul.edu/web2py_wiki/default/wiki/JSONdatetime > > > >>>> carlo wrote: > > > >>>>> Thank you Tim, I am looking forward to it. > > > >>>>> carlo > > > >>>>> On 14 Gen, 18:18, Timothy Farrell <tfarr...@swgen.com> wrote: > > > >>>>>> That's funny, I just dealt with this issue yesterday. I'll put a > > >>>>>> tip on > > >>>>>> the wiki and link it. > > > >>>>>> -tim > > > >>>>>> carlo wrote: > > > >>>>>>> I had this problem trying to serialize a (SQLite) date field with > > >>>>>>> simplejson through "js.dumps(mydata)" : > > > >>>>>>> File "C:\Python25\web2py\gluon\contrib\simplejson\encoder.py", line > > >>>>>>> 332, in default > > >>>>>>> raise TypeError("%r is not JSON serializable" % (o,)) > > >>>>>>> TypeError: datetime.date(2009, 1, 14) is not JSON serializable > > > >>>>>>> It seems something similar happened in Django: > > > >>>>>>>http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/2460 > > > >>>>>>> Is there any workaround? > > > >>>>>>> carlo > > > >>>>>> -- > > >>>>>> Timothy Farrell <tfarr...@swgen.com> > > >>>>>> Computer Guy > > >>>>>> Statewide General Insurance Agency (www.swgen.com) > > > >>>> -- > > >>>> Timothy Farrell <tfarr...@swgen.com> > > >>>> Computer Guy > > >>>> Statewide General Insurance Agency (www.swgen.com) > > > >> -- > > >> Timothy Farrell <tfarr...@swgen.com> > > >> Computer Guy > > >> Statewide General Insurance Agency (www.swgen.com) > > > -- > > Timothy Farrell <tfarr...@swgen.com> > > Computer Guy > > Statewide General Insurance Agency (www.swgen.com) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
