msgpack-python extension that provides support for Timestamp, Date, and "Naive" DateTime (UTC) packed Ext types.
- Free software: BSD license
- Documentation: https://msgpack-python-ext.readthedocs.io.
Until this project is published on PyPI, simply add the following to your requirements.txt:
git+https://github.com/aisrael/msgpack-python-ext
Then, instead of using msgpack.packb/msgpack.unpackb directly, you would use msgpack_ext.packb/msgpack_ext.unpackb as follows:
import datetime
import msgpack_ext
packed_date = msgpack_ext.packb(datetime.date(2008, 8, 16))
assert b'\xd6e\x07\xd8\x08\x10' == packed_date
date = msgpack_ext.unpackb(packed_date)
assert datetime.date(2008, 8, 16) == date
packed_datetime = msgpack_ext.packb(datetime.datetime(1879, 3, 14, 11, 30, 00))
assert b'\xc7\x07f\x07W\x03\x0e\x0b\x1e\x00' == packed_datetime
dt = msgpack_ext.unpackb(packed_datetime)
assert datetime.datetime(1879, 3, 14, 11, 30, 00) == dt
msgpack_ext.unpackb adds the ext_hook = msgpack_ext.msgpack_ext.ext_hook keyword option automatically to provide an ext_hook that can recognize and succesfully unpack date, datetime, and the MessagePack Timestamp Ext formats.
For all dates, times, and timestamps, assume UTC from the sender.
Dates are packed/unpacked using the Ext type with code 101 using the following format:
| year (uint16) | month (uint8) | day (uint8) |
DateTimes are Dates are packed/unpacked using the Ext type with code 102 using the following format:
| year (uint16) | month (uint8) | day (uint8) | hour (uint8) | minute (uint8) | second (uint8) |
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