[Py4web 1.20210906.1] Change in timestamp format in restAPI

[mamisoa]

Hi,

As I mentioned in the google group, I noticed a change in the timestamp format OUTPUT of the restAPI.

It changed from:
(1) yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss
to
(2) yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss

The tricky thing is that it accepts format (1) for POST, but you receive (2) when GET. It makes doing some different and extra work on maintaining the code.

I screened last commits in PyDal and Py4web but I couldn't find the change.

https://groups.google.com/g/py4web/c/hyEFF0G92UU

Mamisoa

[mdipierro]

Would it be acceptable to make it accept both 1 and 2 for post but always return 2?

[mdipierro]

Can you provide a minimalist example to reproduce? This should accept both formats.

[mamisoa]

I'm sorry for the late reply, I didn't see you replied.
It does accept both formats for a POST request.

But the GET request return only format (2) while I believe it should be more (1) as it is more standard.

[mdipierro]

The reason it uses "2" is that we use the datetime to poulate and the latter does not like the "T".

[mamisoa]

Shouldn't it stay with the format yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss so that it:

• stays coherent
• sticks to w3 compliance
• leaves the translation to other format to a post-processing time outside py4web?