class AWS::Record::Attributes::DateTimeAttr

@private

# File lib/aws/record/attributes.rb, line 377
def self.allow_set?
  true
end

Returns a DateTime object encoded as a string (suitable for sorting).

attribute.serialize(DateTime.parse('2001-01-01'))
#=> '2001-01-01T00:00:00:Z)

@param [DateTime] datetime The datetime object to serialize. @param [Hash] options @return [String] Returns the datetime object serialized to a string

in ISO8601 format (e.g. '2011-01-02T10:11:12Z')

# File lib/aws/record/attributes.rb, line 368
def self.serialize datetime, options = {}
  unless datetime.is_a?(DateTime)
    msg = "expected a DateTime value, got #{datetime.class}"
    raise ArgumentError, msg  
  end
  datetime.strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%Z')
end

Returns value cast to a DateTime object. Empty strings are cast to nil. Values are cast first to strings and then passed to DateTime.parse. Integers are treated as timestamps.

datetime_attribute.type_cast('2000-01-02')
#=> #<DateTime: 4903091/2,0,2299161>

datetime_attribute.type_cast(1306170146)
#<DateTime: 106086465073/43200,-7/24,2299161>

datetime_attribute.type_cast('')
#=> nil

datetime_attribute.type_cast(nil)
#=> nil

@param [Mixed] raw_value The value to cast to a DateTime object. @param [Hash] options @return [DateTime,nil]

# File lib/aws/record/attributes.rb, line 339
def self.type_cast raw_value, options = {}
  case raw_value
  when nil      then nil
  when ''       then nil
  when DateTime then raw_value
  when Integer  then 
    begin
      DateTime.parse(Time.at(raw_value).to_s) # timestamp
    rescue
      nil
    end
  else 
    begin
      DateTime.parse(raw_value.to_s) # Time, Date or String
    rescue
      nil
    end
  end
end