Hi, Henri, Henri Gomez wrote:
> While working on XML-RPC 3.0 integration in some applications, I see > that the current implementation break compatibility with XML-RPC > specs, including XML-RPC 1.2/2.0 implementations. > > The implementation say that Date should be coded like this : > > <dateTime.iso8601> date/time 19980717T14:08:55 > > As such you could provide and get back java.util.Date. > > The current implementation make use of Calendar and format Date in form : > > AAAA-MM-JJTHH:MM:SS+ZZ:ZZ (ex: 2005-11-21T00:00:00+01:00) > > This bad formating came from the use of XsDateTimeFormat. > > My recommandation will be to restore use of Date in the XML-RPC specs > format and make Calendar support in extensions. > > If nobody has objections, I'll commit fixes by the end of the week not so fast. Please let's be careful. First of all, please let's clearly separate between two completely unrelated issues: - the question whether java.util.Calendar, or java.util.Date is being choosen as the default object type for representing dateTime - possible problems in the output generated by XsDateTimeFormat The former point is subject to discussion. As already noticed, we clearly disagree on that. So I'd expect that you'd at least leave room for discussion with others. before we conclude, possibly by holding a vote. For the record: IMO, it is a very severe problem of the official XML-RPC spec, to forbid the timezone part of xs:dateTime. The discussions on this mailing list have clearly demonstrated, that simply omitting the timezone is inappropriate. The main theme for 3.0 is: Be compliant to the spec, if required, but offer more, if requested. In other words: The possibility to use an official xs:dateTime string is a serious and very valuable extension. However, support for any valid xs:dateTime cannot be done with TextFormat. It simply isn't powerful enough. Hence the decision for XsDateTimeFormat. There is no problem in adding configuration parameters to this class, if required. All ws developers (in particular xml-rpc developers) have sufficient karma to add required changes. Jochen
