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:

json/from_json.cr
json/to_json.cr
yaml/from_yaml.cr
yaml/to_yaml.cr

Class Method Summary

• .from_json(value : JSON::PullParser) : Time
• .from_yaml(ctx : YAML::ParseContext, node : YAML::Nodes::Node) : Time
• .to_json(value : Time, json : JSON::Builder) : Nil
• .to_yaml(value : Time, yaml : YAML::Nodes::Builder) : Nil

Class Method Detail