ExtJS JSON Date Serializer: TimeZones and Format

Through development, we finally ran into the Javascript date issue where the dates sent between the front and the backend were not in sync. The front end was sending the dates to the backend in “YYYY-MM_DD” format, and the Jackson’s deserializer would append the application’s server timezone to the date, and this would result in inconsistent dates in the right conditions since it assumed that the date sent was in GMT and would try to convert it to the local time which ended up shaving a day of the date. To solve this problem, we decided the frontend would send the date with the local timezone which would be saved on the server. It took me a little while to figure it out, but i finally used this piece of code to set the serializer’s date format:

Ext.util.JSON.encodeDate = function(o)
{
 return '"' + o.format("Y-m-d'T'H:i:s.uZ") + '"';
}

To set the correct format for your particular server, check the Date format patterns accepted by ExtJS Date object:

http://dev.sencha.com/deploy/dev/docs/?class=Ext.util.JSON&member=encodeDate

4 responses to “ExtJS JSON Date Serializer: TimeZones and Format”

jlcampos

December 7, 2011 at 11:48 am

Hi.

Im using your piece of code and trying to send dates from extjs frontend to server code that uses resteasy with jackson to support the json serialization/deserialization. Im sending this date 2011-12-07’GMT’00:00:00.000-21600 and jackson is throwing this error:

(error: Can not parse date “2011-12-07’GMT’00:00:00.000-21600”: not compatible with any of standard forms (“yyyy-MM-dd’T’HH:mm:ss.SSSZ”, “yyyy-MM-dd’T’HH:mm:ss.SSS’Z’”, “EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss zzz”, “yyyy-MM-dd”))

What im doing wrong?

Thanks

Reply
1. Abou Kone
  
  December 7, 2011 at 12:05 pm
  
  I remember that error, I don’t have access to the code anymore but it definitely was a formatting error. It is a very small detail but check the formatting you are using against the formats returned in the error message.
  
  Reply
  1. jlcampos
    
    December 7, 2011 at 12:19 pm
    
    Thanks Abou,
    
    Finally i got it, im doing this as below:
    
    Ext.util.JSON.encodeDate = function(o)
    {
    return ‘”‘ + o.toISOString() + ‘”‘;
    }
    
    Now it works, regards from MX
  2. Abou Kone
    
    December 7, 2011 at 12:24 pm
    
    De nada Jose, but even more thanks for coming back and posting your solution!

The Chief Mercenary

ExtJS JSON Date Serializer: TimeZones and Format

Like this:

4 responses to “ExtJS JSON Date Serializer: TimeZones and Format”

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

ExtJS JSON Date Serializer: TimeZones and Format

Share this:

Like this:

4 responses to “ExtJS JSON Date Serializer: TimeZones and Format”

Leave a Reply Cancel reply