Unable to create version and set time field (can't send a datetime.datetime)

[pipern]

Unable to create version and set time field, as it expects datetime.datetime but that can't be marshalled. If we send it as a string, we get:

xmlrpclib.Fault: <Fault 1: "'unsupported operand type(s) for -: 'str' and 'datetime.datetime'' while executing 'ticket.version.create()'">

[pipern]

Examples which fail:

attrs = {"time":datetime.datetime.utcnow().strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")}
server.ticket.version.create("3.0", attrs)

attrs = {"time":datetime.datetime.utcnow()}
server.ticket.version.create("3.0", attrs)

[osimons]

Using what protocol? XML-RPC has native support for marshalling datetime values, but that is not the same type as the default Python datetime type. What you want to use is xmlrpclib.DateTime datatype, that according to docs:

DateTime wrapper for an ISO 8601 string or time tuple or localtime integer value to generate 'dateTime.iso8601' XML-RPC value.

Seeing you are working with Python as client, you want to look at the xmlrpclib standard library documentation.

[pipern]

Ah, thanks for that.

Indeed, this works perfectly:

   attrs = {"time":xmlrpclib.DateTime(datetime.datetime.utcnow())}
   server.ticket.version.create(version, attrs)

[osimons]

Now even with a test case for illustration (and verification) - see [8688] :-)