datetime in webservice

[cburghardt]

Simple question: how do I set a custom property which is defined as d:datetime via CML? A CMLCreate takes a NamedValue[] as input but a NamedValue accepts only strings. I have tried to sent the date as ISO8601DateFormat because I found this in the converters but I always get the same error:
       {http://www.alfresco.org/ws/service/repository/1.0}RepositoryFault:<ns1:errorCode>0</ns1:errorCode><ns1:message>The property value is not compatible with the type defined for the property:
   property: {http://www.inovox.de/model/1.0}date
   property value: PropertyValue[actual-type=DATE, multi-valued=false, value-type=STRING, value=2005-12-23 14:26:30,000]</ns1:message>

[davidc]

As you correctly found out, dates should be passed in ISO8601 format.  Try this format:

YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss

[cburghardt]

Interesting, if I use your formatter (org.alfresco.util.ISO8601DateFormat) it works. If I use the formatter from the log4j package (org.apache.log4j.helpers.ISO8601DateFormat) it doesn't - probably because of the missing 'T'.

[cburghardt]

It seems that datetime properties are not correctly converted when they are retrieved with RepositoryService#query. The NamedValue contains something like "Sat Jan 07 23:51:38 CET 2006". If I am not mistaken this is produced in ResultSetQuerySession which does not use the DefaultTypeConverter but simply Object.toString().

[rwetherall]

Hi,

Thanks for finding this.  I've created an entry in JIRA so this bug doesn't get lost.  You can track its progress here.

Cheers,
Roy

[rwetherall]

Should be fixed now …

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r2265 | royw | 2006-01-31 16:08:59 +0000 (Tue, 31 Jan 2006) | 1 line

Changed paths:

   M /alfresco/HEAD/root/projects/remote-api/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/webservice/repository/ResultSetQuerySession.java

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