You guys were right - it was a DateTime object - thank you very much for
clearing this up.
Steve
On 03/15/2012 05:43 PM, Francisco Obispo wrote:
> try:
>
>
> $_->created->ymd
>
> created is most likely a DateTime object.
>
> more info: perldoc DateTime
>
> Francisco
>
>
> On Mar 15, 2012, at 2:38 PM, Steve Seremeth wrote:
>
>> Hello -
>>
>> I am semi new to Perl and Catalyst. I have walked through the Catalyst tutorial a couple times and have also picked up a couple books and done much googling that always seem to get me close but leave me hanging.
>>
>> Have been looking at tons of docs for catalyst::controller::rest and catalyst::view::json amongst many others and can't find joy.
>>
>> Anyway -- I think I would be on the right track if someone solved this basic inquiry:
>>
>> Working from this example:
>> http://www.catalystframework.org/calendar/2009/22# An AJAX CRUD Interface with Catalyst and jQuery
>>
>> which I have working fine, fwiw...
>>
>> How would you expose the "created" column from the db (schema came from here: http://search.cpan.org/~bobtfish/Catalyst-Manual-5.9003/lib/Catalyst/Manual/Tutorial/04_BasicCRUD.pod and is, in this example, a sqlite TIMESTAMP col) in the JSON generated by the API controller's grid_POST method?
>>
>> If I simply add the column to the API controller here:
>>
>> <snip>
>> $data{rows} = [
>> map { +{
>> id => $_->id,
>> cell => [
>> $_->id,
>> $_->title,
>> $_->rating,
>> $_->author_list,
>> $_->created,
>> ]
>> } } $paged_rs->all
>> ];
>> </snip>
>>
>> The app throws this:
>>
>> Content-Type application/json had a problem with your
>> request.
>>
>> ***ERROR***
>> encountered object '2012-02-29T17:16:27', but neither
>> allow_blessed enabled nor TO_JSON method available on it at
>> /usr/local/share/perl/5.12.4/Catalyst/Action/Serialize/JSON.pm
>> line 39.
>>
>>
>> And I realize I'm not serializing the timestamp appropriately (and how data with colons are bound to cause issues in JSON)... but this simple thing is what I haven't been able to solve.
>>
>> Any guidance greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks -
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> P.S. For penance I will create some documentation of the working example and check it in somewhere useful or host a living doc on one of my websites to help others.
>>
>> Steve Seremeth | Release Engineer
>>
>> steve.seremeth at dealer.com
>> V : 877.327.8422 x 1391
>>
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