module Time::EpochConverter

Overview

Converter to be used with JSON.mapping and YAML.mapping to serialize a Time instance as the number of seconds since the unix epoch. See Time.epoch.

require "json"

class Person
  JSON.mapping({
    birth_date: {type: Time, converter: Time::EpochConverter},
  })
end

person = Person.from_json(%({"birth_date": 1459859781}))
person.birth_date # => 2016-04-05 12:36:21 UTC
person.to_json    # => %({"birth_date":1459859781})

Defined in:

json/from_json.cr
json/to_json.cr
yaml/from_yaml.cr
yaml/to_yaml.cr

Class Method Summary

• .from_json(value : JSON::PullParser) : Time
• .from_yaml(value : YAML::PullParser) : Time
• .to_json(value : Time, json : JSON::Builder)
• .to_yaml(value : Time, yaml : YAML::Builder)

Class Method Detail