Generate Date fields for "date-time" format

[tflanitzer]

In our Swagger, we have several fields of format "date-time" (type "string"). Currently, these are represented as string in the generated models.

It would be very convenient if these were generated as Date objects.

[luisfpg]

There's no way for this to work, because it would require the generated code to visit the entire object graph that after receiving / before sending to transform data.
That would slow down all all network communication and is out of scope for this project.

[phl3x0r]

this could be optional for convenience, since it won't slow things any further than having to make the coversions in other places.

[luisfpg]

Still, it would require the generated code to traverse the entire object graph before requests and after responses, and this is out-of-scope for ng-swagger-gen.

[SharmaHarsh7]

Looks line ng-swagger-gen is not open for change requests.

In my opinion, on client side we should have the exact same copy of the type models on server or it could be string | Date.

[luisfpg]

"Looks line ng-swagger-gen is not open for change requests."

When we started to work with Swagger in the Cyclos project, we didn't find a suitable generator and released ng-swagger-gen as open source in the hope it would be useful to others. Judging by the number of downloads, issues and pull requests, I'm particularly happy with the result.
I'm the sole maintainer of the project, but it did had a lot of PR's.
Now we no longer use Swagger 2, but moved to OpenAPI 3, and hence, ng-openapi-gen was born. We no longer use Swagger ourselves, so ng-swagger-gen is only receiving critical fixes.
For the record, no-openapi-gen won't support this particular feature either.
If this feature is critical for someone, the only way would be a fork.

[SharmaHarsh7]

Agree with the default implementation, after considering different scenarios and putting some efforts in research, I also found that the JSON string is the correct format for the date/time type and it is your application's responsibility to play around with the conversion of string to datetime when required.