Date marshalling in Path/query param in Errai 2.4.3 JaxRS?

[steeveb]

Hi all,

I'm using Errai 2.4.3, JaxRS module and jackson for marshalling objects between server (that uses Jersey) and client.

Fetching/sending objects that contain dates work properly between the server and the client.

But when i use a Date as a query or path param, it seems that i have a URL encoded Json representation (decoded, it's something like {^Value: [date_timestamp]}) that is not understood by the server.

Has anybody got this problem before?

Thanks,

Steeve

[csa]

Hi Steeve,

While we could make this work in our Jackson transformer, wouldn't it be better to use a numeric (long) representation of the date in your URL (instead of the String representation)?

The requirements for @QueryParam and @PathParam technically allow java.util.Date to be used but the constructor taking a single String argument in Date is deprecated:

https://jax-rs-spec.java.net/nonav/2.0-SNAPSHOT/apidocs/index.html?javax/ws/rs/PathParam.html

Cheers,

Christian

[csa]

In case you can't (or don't want to) change to a numeric representation of java.util.Date in your @Params you can upgrade to 2.4.4-SNAPSHOT or 3.0-SNAPSHOT now. I've pushed a fix for this.

Cheers,

Christian

[steeveb]

Hi Christian,

First of all, thank you for your quick answer!

Indeed i could have changed my date representation.

My point was just that it could be nice to be able to use dates as they are used in object attributes, but as i can notice, it is already fixed in next version so great, and thank you again for this project that made me save a lot of time!

Regards,

Steeve