module Time::EpochConverter

Overview

Converter to be used with JSON::Serializable and YAML::Serializable to serialize a Time instance as the number of seconds since the unix epoch. See Time#to_unix.

require "json"

class Person
  include JSON::Serializable

  @[JSON::Field(converter: Time::EpochConverter)]
  property birth_date : Time
end

person = Person.from_json(%({"birth_date": 1459859781}))
person.birth_date # => 2016-04-05 12:36:21 UTC
person.to_json    # => %({"birth_date":1459859781})

Defined in:

schema/ext/time/epoch_converter.cr

Class Method Summary

Class Method Detail

def self.from_http_param(value : String) : Time #

Parse Time from an HTTP param as unix timestamp.


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def self.to_http_param(value : Time, builder : HTTP::Params::Builder, key : String) #

Put value as a unix timestamp into the builder at key.


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def self.to_http_param(value : Time) #

Return value as a unix timestamp string.


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