parsing string to date

[josegranja]

Hello,

I'm using FOSRestBundle with JMS Serializer. I bind request parameters using ParamConverter:

@ParamConverter("person", converter="fos_rest.request_body")

I see that this ParamConverter is calling this JMS Serializer internally. I have a problem with dates. For example I have the property:

/**
* @annotation\Expose
* @annotation\Type("DateTime<'Y-m-d'>")
*
*/
private $birthday;

the serialization happens as expected on most of the scenarios and only fails if the format is wrong. for example: 2014-2222-02. However is doesn't fail when the month number is out of range: 2014-30-02.

I have tracked down the error to the class DateHandler and the method: parseDateTime. What is happening is that the conversion: \DateTime::createFromFormat($format, (string) $data, $timezone); will never throw an exception and return always true if the month number or month day is out of range. What it would do is save this as a warning and try to guess the date.

This warnings can be checked through \DateTime::getLastErrors(). I can see that this rightly done in DateTimeToStringTransformer object reverseTransform method.

Does that sound ok to you? Let me know what you think.

many thanks,

jose

[goetas]

You have to implement a custom date type and do the parsing of the wrong datefromat by your self.

/**
* @Annotation\Expose
* @Annotation\Type("MyDateTime")
*
*/
private $birthday;

And provide a type handler for MyDateTime