Unsupported time.Time (json.Marshaler/Unmarshaler?)

[Carlos Cobo]

Good morning!

Yesterday evening I was giving oto a try and found that time.Time is not supported which made me think it was because I was on Windows at that time.

I just tried on Ubuntu with the same result:
parse input object type: parse type: parse type: /usr/local/go/src/time/time.go:139:2: wall must be exported

Which led me to think oto is not checking if a type satifies json.Marshaler and/or json.Unmarshaler.
Is this something that I should solve in my template?

Here's my sample definition:

package definition

import "time"

type ThingService interface {
	CreateThing(CreateThingRequest) CreateThingResponse
}

type CreateThingRequest struct {
	Thing Thing
}

type CreateThingResponse struct {
	Result bool
}

type Thing struct {
	ID      int64
	OwnerID int64
	Type    string
	Props   map[string]interface{}
	Created time.Time
	Enabled bool
}

I know I could fix this by using a string as type for Created instead but this feels weird as time.Time is supported by encoding/json.

[David Hernandez]

We usually in our APIs explicitly convert dates and times, to a string or to an int depending on the case.
Is not as much as it is supported in Go, is how easy is to make a template for another language or client

[Carlos Cobo]

Ok I'll deal with this on my side then.