How to pass date-time value into Satellite APIs in iso8601 format

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Issue

  • How to pass date-time value into Satellite APIs in iso8601 format

  • With an incorrect date-time format, Satellite API calls may encounter a '500 Internal Server Error' with an error similar to the following reported in /var/log/tomcatX/catalina.out:

...
Caused by:
redstone.xmlrpc.XmlRpcException: Illegal date encountered:2013-01-23 00:00:00
    at redstone.xmlrpc.XmlRpcValue.processCharacterData(XmlRpcValue.java:114)
    at redstone.xmlrpc.XmlRpcParser.endElement(XmlRpcParser.java:235)
    at redstone.xmlrpc.XmlRpcDispatcher.endElement(XmlRpcDispatcher.java:178)
    at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
    at redstone.xmlrpc.XmlRpcParser.parse(XmlRpcParser.java:143)
    ... 36 more
Caused by:
java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "2013-01-23 00:00:00"
    at java.text.DateFormat.parse(DateFormat.java:348)
    at redstone.xmlrpc.XmlRpcValue.processCharacterData(XmlRpcValue.java:109)
...

Environment

  • Red Hat Network Satellite v5.4

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