MSJSONDate

Cocoa library used to parse and generate date strings encoded using Microsoft JSON formats.

There are three general formats supported,

1. DateTime without offset data

   "/Date(1198908717056)/"

2. DateTime with offset data

   "/Date(1198908717056+0500)/"

3. DateTimeOffset

   {
       DateTime: "/Date(1198908717056)/",
       OffsetMinutes: "-360"
   }
   

Usage

Operations can take place using either the MSJSONDate class methods, or the MSJSONDate category for NSDate instances.

Example snippet:

id json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:data options:kNilOptions error:nil];
id dateElement = json[@"DateLastModified"];
NSDate *date = [MSJSONDate dateWithJSON:dateElement];

Example snippet:

NSDate *date = [NSDate date];
NSMutableDictionary *jsonElement = [NSMutableDictionary new];
[jsonElement setObject:[date jsonValue] forKey:@"DateLastModified"];

Installation

• Download MSJSONDate
• Unzip and import the MSJSONDate subdirectory into your Xcode project.
• Simply #import "MSJSONDate.h" in your implementation files to get started.

License

MSJSONDate was created by Cory Metcalfe (coryallegory), and is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.