Issues, Workarounds & Localization

This has been bugging me for a while. Go only accepts standard time formats (listed here) and is not as loose as other languages. It appears that the time format used by CREST in the JSON output does not meet any of these standards and fails to decode.

Is there a simple way to resolve this without breaking every other client? I am using a workaround presently.

The code below fails with

package main

import (
    "encoding/json"
    "fmt"
    "net/http"
    "time"
)

type AllianceV1 struct {
    StartDate         time.Time
    CorporationsCount int64
    Description       string
    URL               string
    ID                int64
    Name              string
    ShortName         string
    Deleted           bool
}

func main() {
    response, err := http.Get("https://crest-tq.eveonline.com/alliances/99000006/")

    if err != nil {
        fmt.Printf("%+v\n", err.Error())
        return
    }

    u := AllianceV1{}
    err = json.NewDecoder(response.Body).Decode(&u)
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Printf("%+v\n", err.Error())
        return
    }
    fmt.Printf("%+v\n", u)
}

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25087960/json-unmarshal-time-that-isnt-in-rfc-3339-format


Perfectly normal to need custom logic. Heck, even C# has trouble with ISO8601 strings and sometimes needs nudging.