Re: [qooxdoo-devel] please, basic question about rpc-date

2015-08-05 Thread Derrell Lipman
I believe it was a serious oversight in the JavaScript design, carried over to the JSON design, that there is no literal form for a Date object. Every native type in JavaScript other than Date has a literal form. I was one of the people who worked on that date hack, nearly 10 years ago. It is not

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] please, basic question about rpc-date

2015-08-05 Thread rsantiagopaz
fritz wrote > P.S.: You really shouldn't use rpc.callSync() of course, is only a ad-hoc example. Thanks for your time Fritz. Finally I get de Date object. Some like this send, and receive, all Date objects with the proper convertions: qx.io.remote.Rpc.CONVERT_DATES = true; qx.io.remote.Rpc.RESP

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] please, basic question about rpc-date

2015-08-05 Thread Petr Kobalíček
I would recommend to not use date object at all in your code, just use string and convert to date when you really need to manipulate it. I found this approach to be much safer. For date manipulation I use moment. On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 8:00 AM, Fritz Zaucker wrote: > I believe the problem is tha

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] please, basic question about rpc-date

2015-08-04 Thread Fritz Zaucker
I believe the problem is that there is no standard way for json-encoding a date. In my applications I explicitly convert date strings received from the server into a JS date object: var dateJS = new Date(dateStrFromServer); Cheers, Fritz P.S.: You really shouldn't use rpc.callSync() as it blo