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Jens Geyer commented on THRIFT-4363:
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We had that discussion a whikle ago on the mailing lists. Main problem here is
that there are so many (actually used) date/time formats with different offsets
and precisions across OSes and languages. It's hard to find a common
denominator, but (personal opinion) it could be worth a try to find one other
than strings like in [http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime|this W3C note] or
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601|ISO 8601].
FWIW, we usually use double for out datetime values here, but I also used C#
ticks occasionally.
> User-extensible type mappings
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>
> Key: THRIFT-4363
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-4363
> Project: Thrift
> Issue Type: Wish
> Components: D - Compiler, D - Library
> Reporter: Neia Neutuladh
> Priority: Minor
>
> One of the most common types I deal with is a datetime. Another common type
> is a time delta. It would be great if these were built in, but that's
> unlikely to happen soon. Another option is to put this into the library as a
> relatively generic thing: use an annotation to tell the compiler what D type
> this thing is, and then have the library figure out how to convert the format
> given to the requested type, in a way where the user can override things.
> For instance, I have a Timestamp type. It's got an int64 for the epoch second
> and an int64 for the nanosecond. I want to turn that into a
> std.datetime.DateTime. Optionally, the library can possibly look for a way to
> build a DateTime from those components automatically. It won't find one, so
> it will produce a fallback that simply produces a reasonable exception. I can
> provide a manual converter on application startup.
> This lets me have a generated object model that looks more like what I would
> have written by hand.
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