Bug #7841: Datetime fields in the API are returning a full JSON object - Foreman

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Datetime fields in the API are returning a full JSON object

Added by Eric Helms over 9 years ago. Updated over 9 years ago.

Status:

Resolved

Priority:

High

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Category:

API

Target version:

Difficulty:

medium

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Bugzilla link:

Pull request:

https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/1873

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Description

See screenshot for the issue. This happens on the repository list page, the content view list page and the content view versions page.
This was seen on a CentOS 7 devel install.

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Eric Helms, 10/07/2014 11:56 AM

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Updated by Eric Helms over 9 years ago

Project changed from Katello to Foreman
Subject changed from Content view last publish and last sync of related repositories shows JSON to Datetime fields in the API are returning a full JSON object
Category changed from Web UI to API
Priority changed from Normal to High
translation missing: en.field_release deleted (14)
Difficulty changed from easy to medium

This was previously thought to be an isolated issue, but appears to be widespread. For example, when hitting /api/v2/users you can see the 'last_login_on' field is showing too much information:

{
"total": 1,
"subtotal": 1,
"page": 1,
"per_page": 20,
"search": null,
"sort": {
"by": null,
"order": null
},
"results": [ {
"id": 3,
"login": "admin",
"firstname": "Admin",
"lastname": "User",
"mail": "root@example.com",
"admin": true,
"auth_source_id": 1,
"auth_source_name": "Internal",
"last_login_on": {
"time": "2014-10-13T14:39:06Z",
"time_zone": {
"name": "UTC",
"utc_offset": null,
"tzinfo": {
"identifier": "Etc/UTC",
"real_timezone": {
"info": {
"identifier": "Etc/UTC",
"offsets": {
"o0": {
"utc_offset": 0,
"std_offset": 0,
"abbreviation": "UTC",
"utc_total_offset": 0
}
},
"transitions": [],
"previous_offset": {
"utc_offset": 0,
"std_offset": 0,
"abbreviation": "UTC",
"utc_total_offset": 0
},
"transitions_index": null
}
}
},
"current_period": null
},