[Treebase-guts] [ treebase-Bugs-3303076 ] Search on ISO 8601 date styles

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Bugs item #3303076, was opened at 2011-05-16 21:09
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Category: ui
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 7
Private: No
Submitted By: William Piel (sfrgpiel)
Assigned to: hshyket (hshyket)
Summary: Search on ISO 8601 date styles

Initial Comment:

Currently, the API allows the user to search by date, e.g.:

http://treebase-dev.nescent.org/treebase-web/phylows/study/find?query=prism.creationDate>"May 5, 2011"&format=rss1
http://treebase-dev.nescent.org/treebase-web/phylows/study/find?query=prism.modificationDate>"May 5, 2011"&format=rss1
http://treebase-dev.nescent.org/treebase-web/phylows/study/find?query=prism.publicationDate>"May 5, 2011"&format=rss1

However, CQL usually expects the date format to conform to ISO 8601: 

http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/resources/cql-context-set-v1-2.html

This date style already works for our OAI-PMH service, e.g.:

http://treebase.org/treebase-web/top/oai?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&from=2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Let's expand the date format in the API -- if anything it avoids needing to put the date in quotes. The issue is to configure the DateFormat object correctly which is done in the StudySearchController, at lines 311, 332 and 350. You can probably pass date formatting templates to the factory that returns a date parser through the getInstance() call. 



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