Support date type

[ArsenyYankovsky]

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[jeremydaly]

Thanks for your work on this, and sorry for the late reply. I'm not sure this makes sense for the library to handle the date type, since it's not a valid data type in the Data API. For now, I think it makes more sense to treat it as a regular string (like MySQL does) or as an integer (for timestamps) and then handle that in your code like we normally would with straight MySQL.

If I'm missing something here, let me know.

[ArsenyYankovsky]

Well, it acts as a bridge between JS and the data API so I don't see a reason why it shouldn't be here. But the final decision is yours of course.

[jeremydaly]

I supposed it's possible (and probably straightforward) to support Date types in input parameters. We could convert Date objects into an ISO 8601 value and use StringValue (as your code suggests) to write to MySQL. I think we would want an option for auto-date conversion for queries, however. If true, we can inspect the field type (which we get from the columnMetaData object) and parse date/times appropriately. Thoughts?

[ArsenyYankovsky]

Sounds like a good idea. Unfortunately, I have no idea when I will have time to work on it though.

[jeremydaly]

No worries. If it's important to the library, I can implement it. 👍

[juliedavila]

I'm hitting a need for this too

[juliedavila]

Looking at the latest docs

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/data-api.html

For some specific types, such as DECIMAL or TIME, a hint might be required to instruct the Data API that the String value should be passed to the database as a different type. You can do this by including values in typeHint in the SqlParameter data type. The possible values for typeHint are the following:

DECIMAL – The corresponding String parameter value is sent as an object of DECIMAL type to the database.

TIMESTAMP – The corresponding String parameter value is sent as an object of TIMESTAMP type to the database. The accepted format is YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS[.FFF].

TIME – The corresponding String parameter value is sent as an object of TIME type to the database. The accepted format is HH:MM:SS[.FFF].

DATE – The corresponding String parameter value is sent as an object of DATE type to the database. The accepted format is YYYY-MM-DD.

Looks like we'd need to add that hint to the call

[cklam2]

Support implemented, see #28. Feedback welcome

[jeremydaly]

Closing this in favor of #28.