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bnjmn.myers
bnjmn.myers

Reputation: 439

Store NSDate in CoreData

The string that I'm getting from the jSON return is formatted as follows: 2014-06-13T11:11:16.2

The code I'm using to store is:

NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc]init];
[formatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.S"];
[formatter setLocale:[[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"en_US"]];
NSString *dateStr;
NSDate *formattedDate;
dateStr = NSLocalizedString([inventoryItem objectForKey:@"PurchaseDate"], nil);
formattedDate = [formatter dateFromString:dateStr];
newItem.purchaseDate = formattedDate;

Where am I going wrong?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 480

Answers (3)

LLIAJLbHOu
LLIAJLbHOu

Reputation: 1313

Why you use NSLocalizedString?

Try use this code->

dateStr = [inventoryItem objectForKey:@"PurchaseDate"];//your formated string

Are you create new entity for "newItem"?

newItem = [NSEntityDescription insertNewObjectForEntityForName:newItemEntityName inManagedObjectContext:managedObjectContext];

And in the end are you save you changes?

NSError *error = nil;
NSManagedObjectContext *managedObjectContext = self.managedObjectContext;
if (managedObjectContext != nil) {
    if ([managedObjectContext hasChanges] && ![managedObjectContext save:&error]) {
         // Replace this implementation with code to handle the error appropriately.
         // abort() causes the application to generate a crash log and terminate. You should not use this function in a shipping application, although it may be useful during development. 
        NSLog(@"Unresolved error %@, %@", error, [error userInfo]);
        abort();
    } 
}

Good luck!

Upvotes: 0

stevel
stevel

Reputation: 1622

The nil in formattedDate means that the NSDateFormatter failed to parse the string; something is wrong with the template.

In this excerpt from Apple's Date Formatter guide, they seem to put quotes around several of the items in the template string.

NSDateFormatter *rfc3339DateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
NSLocale *enUSPOSIXLocale = [[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"en_US_POSIX"];

[rfc3339DateFormatter setLocale:enUSPOSIXLocale];
[rfc3339DateFormatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy'-'MM'-'dd'T'HH':'mm':'ss'Z'"];
[rfc3339DateFormatter setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone timeZoneForSecondsFromGMT:0]];

// Convert the RFC 3339 date time string to an NSDate.
NSDate *date = [rfc3339DateFormatter dateFromString:rfc3339DateTimeString];

You will have to modify this to account for your 10ths of a second, here's my best guess:

[rfc3339DateFormatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy'-'MM'-'dd'T'HH':'mm':'ss'.'S"];

Upvotes: 0

Wain
Wain

Reputation: 119031

Change the format to:

@"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.S"

(you need quotes around static alpha-numeric characters in the format) Also, you might want to consider whether you want to use en_US or en_US_POSIX (is the date coming from a user or from the web somewhere).

Upvotes: 1

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