UpdatedDateUTC format about xero-openapi HOT 2 CLOSED

Hi @stevenbrookes

You've identified one of the quirks in Xero's accounting API endpoints. As you correctly pointed to in our docs, we return datetime in the MSJSON format. Depending on the programming language some customization around date deserializing may be necessary.

$match = preg_match( '/([\d]{13})/', $data, $date );
$timestamp = $date[1]/1000;

$datetime = new \DateTime();
$datetime->setTimestamp($timestamp);

$result = $datetime->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
$date = new \DateTime($result);
return $date;

We won't be removing the UTC fields in the OpenAPI spec but you are free to fork and customize if you wish.

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Hi Sidney

I don’t expect you to remove the fields. But the format for the string in the spec is incorrect. If you just remove the format element of the field then it’ll be returned by the generated client files as a string we can then process as you suggest.

Otherwise the Api spec files are unusable for anybody generating client files automatically using swagger code gen for example.

Regards

Steve

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