Re: dateTime.iso8601 format

On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 02:30:32AM +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> >Is it just the example given in the spec:
> >...
> >Or any iso8601 format?
> 
> Just what's shown in the example.  Which, oddly enough, isn't ISO 8601.
> 
> >(indicating UTC).
> 
> It's always UTC.

http://www.xmlrpc.com/spec also says:

    Don't assume a timezone. It should be specified by the server in
    its documentation what assumptions it makes about timezones.

So that means I leave off the "Z" and just document it's UTC?

Are you aware of any client libraries that would care about the "Z" on
the dateTime.iso8601 data type?  I.e., fail to parse an XMLRPC payload
if a "Z" was included?

I've been using the RCP::XML Perl module on a server.  It's handy
because I just end up with a Perl data structure -- and for the
response I can also just pass a data structure and it will create
array, int, string, struct, etc.  But, it currently can't figure out
dateTime.iso8601 automatically.  So, those can end up as strings if not
forced to a dateTime.iso8601 data type.

I suppose if I wanted to I could just document that some element is a
String data type but that string represents a time stamp.

(The Perl module actually has a way to force everything as a Sting
data type, IIRC.)


> That's the XML-RPC way -- easy to get right because there's so little
> the protocol lets you express.

Hum, on a related note.  I was wondering today how to represent a NULL
or undefined string vs. an empty string.  So, for a stuct:

    <struct>
        <member>
            <name>foo</name>
            <value>
                <string></string>
            </value>
        </member>
    <struct>

Is that an empty string or undefined/null string?

What about <int></int>?


Thanks,

-- 
Bill Moseley
[email protected]
Sent from my iMutt


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