As Iceberg said I have no evidence of Json supporting datetime objects. I usually convert my datetime objects into string before invoking the callback: if the data returned by the callback function go into HTML pages you have no problem to get a string returned by your callback.
When I need to get back a datetime object I usually pass the string to the datetime.strptime() method, I do not know if this is the best way but it is working if you need, for example, a datetime object saved in SQLite databases. carlo On 4 Mag, 08:40, Iceberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Mmm, I happened to meet same problem. Sure it is not a web2py issue, > not even a python issue. It is mainly because JSON standard does not > define how to handle date and time. > http://www.json.org/index.html > > Anyway, encoding datetime is easy. There are even simpler ways here. > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/455580/json-datetime-between-pytho... > > The difficult part is how to decode the json string back to a datetime > object. If anyone who knows any lib doing so, in a de-facto standard > way, please let me know. Thanks! > > On May4, 1:24pm, weheh <[email protected]> wrote: > > > simplejson.dumps(x) should support datetime. Same goes for > > simplejson.loads(y). > > > Having worked around this limitation within gluon.contrib.simplejson I > > am convinced this is going to be a pain every time I work with > > datetime and somebody else's website. I'm interfacing a calendar app > > to another website. Everything in python is done with datetime, not > > string. So I convert once just before calling dumps but it just took > > me around 10 minutes or more to write a set of nested loops to handle > > my output data structure. I'm pretty sure I'm going to have to do > > something similar again in a couple/few more places. I'll be faster > > the next time, but still, uggh. > > On Apr30, 9:18pm, carlo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I had the same problem: my Json data were going into an Html form. > > > I solved simply converting my date object into string with str() > > before dumping Json data: I do not know if this is suitable for your > > case > > > carlo --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
