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Trevor Daniel
Trevor Daniel

Reputation: 3954

Self Hosted WebAPI Controller Dates in US not UK format

I have read numerous threads about this problem but have not been able to get it fixed.

I have a self-hosted API and based in the UK... So want UK datetime format

Basically, I am sending dates as DD/MM/YYYY as a GET to my APIController and they are coming into the controller as MM/DD/YYYY.

So, when I send 31/12/2016 I get a 400 error returned. When I send 12/31/2016 it works perfectly.

Here is my service where I am trying to set the culture to en-GB but it makes no difference to my problem.

public APICoreService()
    {
        InitializeComponent();

        _config = new MyHttpsSelfHostConfiguration(ServiceAddress);
        _config.MapHttpAttributeRoutes();
        _config.Routes.MapHttpRoute("DefaultApi", "{controller}/{id}", new { id = RouteParameter.Optional });

        // upload size control
        _config.MaxReceivedMessageSize = 5242880; // 5mb
        _config.MaxBufferSize = 5242880; // 5mb

        // add the controller validation filter
        _config.Filters.Add(new InventryCoreAPIService.Filters.ValidateViewModelAttribute());

        // turn on error messages
        GlobalConfiguration.Configuration.IncludeErrorDetailPolicy = IncludeErrorDetailPolicy.Always;

        _config.Formatters.JsonFormatter.SerializerSettings.ReferenceLoopHandling = Newtonsoft.Json.ReferenceLoopHandling.Ignore;

         // set the culture to solve the date problem
        _config.Formatters.JsonFormatter.SerializerSettings.Culture = new CultureInfo("en-GB");
    }

Can anyone give me any pointers please?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 107

Answers (1)

toadflakz
toadflakz

Reputation: 7944

You should not be binding your date serializer to a specific date format or culture. Date format should be for presentation purposes only.

JSON is a data format, not a presentation format. JSON does not specify a date format but JavaScript does - in order to be compliant, it's generally a good idea to use the JavaScript format of date.

SO: The “right” JSON date format

Upvotes: 3

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