topic JSON - Can't convert the date to string in Alfresco Archive

JSON - Can't convert the date to string

bengrah — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 15:57:57 GMT

Hi all,This is what I suspect, a very easy issue to solve. I just can't see what I'm doing wrong here.I've got a webscript which has some JSON on the front end:<#assign loopNumber = 0 /><#escape x as jsonUtils.encodeJSONString(x)>{ "recentDocs": [ <#list results as recentDocIte

Re: JSON - Can't convert the date to string

abarisone — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:13:09 GMT

Hi,
as reported by the error try this:

${recentDocItem.properties["cm:modified"]?string("dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss")}‍

This allows you to format your dates according to your needs.

Regards,
Andrea

Re: JSON - Can't convert the date to string

bengrah — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 09:25:51 GMT

HI abarisone

Thanks for that, that worked a treat! Why do the regular built-ins like ?datetime etc. not working in this instance? They usually work in HTML templates?

Thanks,
Ben.

Re: JSON - Can't convert the date to string

abarisone — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 09:49:22 GMT

Hi,
for more info about Freemarker's built-ins for dates take a look here http://freemarker.sourceforge.net/docs/ref_builtins_date.html

Regards,
Andrea

Re: JSON - Can't convert the date to string

muralidharand — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 08:02:45 GMT

Hi Patrick,
Is it working now?
Are you changing directly, ftl, lib.js and min.js files?
I would not recommend this. Please use the extension module to extend it; Otherwise, when you're upgrading to newer version is a pain for you.

Re: JSON - Can't convert the date to string

muralidharand — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 09:36:29 GMT

Your custom date is a date object or a string object?
http://freemarker.sourceforge.net/docs/ref_builtins_string.html#ref_builtin_string_date

Extension module : http://docs.alfresco.com/4.0/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.alfresco.enterprise.doc%2Ftasks%2Ftu-share-JS-customize.html
For the client javascript, you can extend it or override only the required function.

One of my customization, I've overridden onCreateNewItem of ObjectRenderer class.


 Alfresco.ObjectRenderer.prototype.onCreateNewItem =  function ObjectRenderer_onCreateNewItem()
 {
 }
‍‍‍‍‍

Hope this helps you !

Re: JSON - Can't convert the date to string

muralidharand — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:03:40 GMT

How the date object is represented in your java class?
Are you able to print the date in the FTL AS IS ( i.e without any type conversion / formatting)?
For testing purpose, is it possible for you to change the date datatype to string/ text and check it out once.

Re: JSON - Can't convert the date to string

muralidharand — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:00:37 GMT

Hi Patrick,
Ok, I understood. You've used the node properties to fill the custom dates.
My hunch is that

 node.properties["gha:RapportPublicatieDatum"] ‍

returning null.
So, Just add null check to the

 node.properties["gha:RapportPublicatieDatum"] ‍

( I've not tested the syntax or the code)
if (node.properties["gha:RapportPublicatieDatum"] != null && node.properties["gha:RapportPublicatieDatum"] != 'undefined')
{
publicatiedatumRapport: node.properties["gha:RapportPublicatieDatum"]
}
else
{
publicatiedatumRapport: new Date()
}

Or simply hard-code the date in search.lib.js to check.

Hope this will help you !