[ ruby-Bugs-4820 ] XMLRPC's conv2value does not handle DateTime at all (it chops the time off)

Bugs item #4820, was opened at 2006-06-20 15:12
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Category: Standard Library
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 3
Submitted By: Philip Hallstrom (phallstrom)
Assigned to: Nobody (None)
Summary: XMLRPC's conv2value does not handle DateTime at all (it chops the time off)

Initial Comment:
I have been building a XML-RPC web service using Rails.  I have several :datetime fields in my database.  Upon receiving the result of the XML-RPC call those fields would have their time truncated to 00:00:00.  Tracking the process all the way through it seems the error is near line 297 of /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/xmlrpc/create.rb:

--------------------------------------------------------------------
when Date
  t = param
  @writer.tag("dateTime.iso8601",
  format("%.4d%02d%02dT00:00:00", t.year, t.month, t.day))
--------------------------------------------------------------------

I don't know why, but "case param" when param.class == DateTime would still match  the Date clause.  param.is_a?(Date) would return true.

I changed the above to look like this:


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when Date
  @writer.tag("dateTime.iso8601", param.strftime("%Y%m%dT%H:%M:%S"))
--------------------------------------------------------------------

Which seems to work well for both DateTime's and Date's.



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