Error while loading from a JSON response about ionic2-calendar

[seatechdev]

This is how I resolved it but I don't think its the most optimum way to do it since a user can have thousands of events over time time. I had to do this after storing the date and time using the default ion-datetime format. I am leaving it open so that if the developer of ionic2-Calendar or anyone else has a better suggestion. Ideally I would like to resolve it at the time of submitting my event instead of getting the payload full of events via my API. This loop is going to degrade the performance but ti works. I tried storing the dates by running them through new Date() but that didn't work.

                         var i;
                        var countData = res.length;  // res is my api response in the json format
                        for (i = 0; i < countData; i++) {
                         this.eventSource[i].startTime = new Date(this.eventSource[i].startTime);
                         this.eventSource[i].endTime = new Date(this.eventSource[i].endTime);
                        }

[twinssbc]

The data type and format you store and display are not necessarily the same.
Since there could be different date time format of a string, so the calendar as a generic component can't support every type. So it accepts Date type which is common, and let the backend service to return the response properly.

[seatechdev]

Fair enough. Thank you for your reply. However, since in this case I am using my own API to generate the JSON (which I am sure lot of developers will be doing), can you please recommend a format e.g. YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.000Z that I can store my date string in so that I don't have go through extra processing and the JSON response can work out of the box.

[twinssbc]

Fair enough. Thank you for your reply. However, since in this case I am using my own API to generate the JSON (which I am sure lot of developers will be doing), can you please recommend a format e.g. YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.000Z that I can store my date string in so that I don't have go through extra processing and the JSON response can work out of the box.

The calendar doesn't support String format of the startTime and endTime. You have to construct a Date object based on what you stored.

[seatechdev]

Thanks! I handled it from the backend by using a package to manipulate dates.