Issue with certain user profiles.

[zack6849]

I'm using the newest build for java, and i keep getting an error on this one profile, i know the profile is valid and stuff, i guess maybe valve had something they did the parser didn't expect?

Stack trace below

com.github.koraktor.steamcondenser.exceptions.SteamCondenserException: XML data could not be parsed.
at com.github.koraktor.steamcondenser.steam.community.SteamId.fetchData(SteamId.java:388)
at com.github.koraktor.steamcondenser.steam.community.SteamId.<init>(SteamId.java:297)
at com.github.koraktor.steamcondenser.steam.community.SteamId.create(SteamId.java:235)
at com.github.koraktor.steamcondenser.steam.community.SteamId.create(SteamId.java:127)
at test.Logging.main(Logging.java:25)
Caused by: java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "August 17"
at java.text.DateFormat.parse(DateFormat.java:357)
at com.github.koraktor.steamcondenser.steam.community.SteamId.fetchData(SteamId.java:362)
... 4 more

Related code i was using

public static void main(String[] args)
{
    try
    {
        SteamId id = SteamId.create(Long.valueOf("76561198103364730"));
        String avatar_url = id.getAvatarMediumUrl();
        String avatar_name = id.getNickname();
        System.out.println(avatar_name);
        System.out.println(avatar_url);
    } catch (SteamCondenserException ex)
    {
        Logger.getLogger(Logging.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
    }
}

[koraktor]

Thanks for the report.

Usually, the memberSince field in the profile data has a format like "September 25, 2003". The data in the profile you're parsing is only "August 17". It seems like Valve now omits the year if the user joined in the current year.

[koraktor]

The big question here is, what happens if the current date is 10/20/2013, but the user joined on 10/21/2012? If we need to double check all dates if they are "valid" at the current time, there's quite a bit of code to write just for parsing that date.

I'll check if this is necessary and if it is, I'll think twice if we really need this.

[zack6849]

If it only omits it if it's the current year, why not just check if it contains a year, and if not assume the current year?
(probably isnt that easy, but perhaps that'd work as a temporary fix?)

[koraktor]

Well, that will be the first step. But depending on Valves output (which is bad because it's not an absolute value) there might be some fine tuning required.

• Java: Fails hard when parsing such a relative date
• Ruby: Time.parse already adds the current year
• PHP: Currently doesn't format the date at all. DateFormat is only available in 5.2+, so this might be a good addition to the next major release.

[koraktor]

Happy new year.

So it seems like the year is only omitted if it is the current year, so the workaround introduced for Java seems sufficient.