DateTime problem

[daan]

Found another problem that I haven't been able to solve yet.
I have a list of objects that contains

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public DateTime StartDate { get; set; }
Then I used your example code to the list back from MVC

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StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(@"{""totalRecords"":" + total_Records + @",""curPage"":" + pq_curPage + @",""data"":");

JavaScriptSerializer js = new JavaScriptSerializer();

String json = js.Serialize(orders);
sb.Append(json);
sb.Append("}");

return this.Content(sb.ToString(), "text/text");
In the grid I added a column with these settings

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title: "Start Date", minWidth: "190", dataIndx: "StartDate", dataType: "date"
When I view the page, instead of getting the date I get the serialized version

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/Date(1288566000000)/
Any idea why? How can get the deserialized date?

[paramvir]

you would need to implement custom json converter.

    public class invoiceConvertor : JavaScriptConverter
    {
        //private const string _dateFormat = "MM/dd/yyyy";
        private const string _dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd";

        public override IEnumerable<Type> SupportedTypes
        {
            get
            {
                return new[] { typeof(Invoice) };
            }
        }

        public override object Deserialize(IDictionary<string, object> dictionary, Type type, JavaScriptSerializer serializer)
        {
            //we are not using Deserialize for this example.
            return new Object();
        }

        public override IDictionary<string, object> Serialize(object obj, JavaScriptSerializer serializer)
        {
            IDictionary<string, object> serialized = new Dictionary<string, object>();

            var order = (Invoice)obj;
            foreach (var prop in order.GetType().GetProperties())
            {
                if (prop.PropertyType == typeof(DateTime?))
                {
                    DateTime? val = (DateTime?)prop.GetValue(order, null);
                    serialized[prop.Name] = (val == null) ? "" : ((DateTime)val).ToString(_dateFormat);                   
                }
                else
                {
                    serialized[prop.Name] = prop.GetValue(order, null);
                }
            }           

            return serialized;
        }
    }


       JavaScriptSerializer js = new JavaScriptSerializer();
       js.RegisterConverters(new[] { new invoiceConvertor() });

[daan]

That worked! Thanks!

Is this the only way to do it? Lets say if we have a huge system with hundreds of grids connected to hundreds of classes, we would have to do a custom converter for every class? I've used other grids in the past, but never encountered this behavior before. Still, I like this grid and it's not a breaking point, just would be great to have something like this built into the grid

[paramvir]

This is not the only way.

You can also do it client side in dataModel.getData callback, iterate over the data and convert all data where column.dataType=="date"

[paramvir]

yet another way to do it on the server side is by use of JSON.NET serializer.

http://james.newtonking.com/archive/2009/02/20/good-date-times-with-json-net