Unmarshal incorrectly formatted datetime
You can define your own time
field type that supports both formats:
type MyTime struct {
time.Time
}
func (self *MyTime) UnmarshalJSON(b []byte) (err error) {
s := string(b)
// Get rid of the quotes "" around the value.
// A second option would be to include them
// in the date format string instead, like so below:
// time.Parse(`"`+time.RFC3339Nano+`"`, s)
s = s[1:len(s)-1]
t, err := time.Parse(time.RFC3339Nano, s)
if err != nil {
t, err = time.Parse("2006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999Z0700", s)
}
self.Time = t
return
}
type Test struct {
Time MyTime `json:"time"`
}
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In the example above we take the predefined format time.RFC3339Nano
, which is defined like this:
RFC3339Nano = "2006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999Z07:00"
and remove the :
"2006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999Z0700"
This time format used by time.Parse
is described here:
https://golang.org/pkg/time/#pkg-constants
Also see the documentation for time.Parse
https://golang.org/pkg/time/#Parse
P.S. The fact that the year 2006
is used in the time format strings is probably because the first version of Golang was released that year.