Support Importing NSDate from Unix Timestamp

[benrobjoh]

I have added support for importing from JSON where dates are represented as Unix timestamps.

If a value that maps to an NSDate attribute in Core Data appears in the JSON as a string, the importing behavior is unchanged from before.

If the value appears in the JSON as a number and nothing is specified in the date attribute's userInfo for the key dateFormat, I assume the number represents the number of seconds since 1970 (10 digits). For JSON that represents its dates as the number of milliseconds since 1970 (13 digits), add the value unixTime13 for key dateFormat in the userInfo.

I have provided tests.

[JanC]

Hi,
that's what I need as well thanks!

Until the pull is accepted:

pod 'MagicalRecord',  :git => 'https://github.com/benrobjoh/MagicalRecord.git', :branch=>'unix-date'

[losingle]

+1

[aminebellakrid]

@tonyarnold will this pull request be merged soon ? if not is there a workaround. thanks

[JanC]

+1 will this ever be merged ?

[tonyarnold]

I'm so sorry guys — I intended to check all of this (and a few other date import PRs) over months ago, but I haven't had much time to work on MR lately. I'll check this out later tonight and merge the changes into the release/3.0 branch (assuming all the tests pass, etc).

[tonyarnold]

Quick update: Every single test in the 3.0 branch is broken. I'm fixing them this morning, then this. Bear with me.

[tonyarnold]

So I've merged this into MagicalRecord 3.0 — does anybody urgently need this in MagicalRecord 2.x? I wasn't planning on an MR 2.x release for a little while (at least until after MR 3 is finished).

[aminebellakrid]

@tonyarnold it would be life saving for me as it will allow me to do a work around for #700 . thanks