Support date=iso8601 attributes in <release> markup

Also fixes https://github.com/ximion/appstream/issues/20

1 files changed, 36 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/libappstream-glib/as-release.c b/libappstream-glib/as-release.c
index 1b6adb3..d5f0737 100644
--- a/libappstream-glib/as-release.c
+++ b/libappstream-glib/as-release.c
@@ -577,6 +577,35 @@ as_release_node_insert (AsRelease *release, GNode *parent, AsNodeContext *ctx)
 }
 
 /**
+ * as_release_iso8601_to_datetime:
+ **/
+static GDateTime *
+as_release_iso8601_to_datetime (const gchar *iso_date)
+{
+	GTimeVal tv;
+	guint dmy[] = {0, 0, 0};
+
+	/* nothing set */
+	if (iso_date == NULL || iso_date[0] == '\0')
+		return NULL;
+
+	/* try to parse complete ISO8601 date */
+	if (g_strstr_len (iso_date, -1, " ") != NULL) {
+		if (g_time_val_from_iso8601 (iso_date, &tv) && tv.tv_sec != 0)
+			return g_date_time_new_from_timeval_utc (&tv);
+	}
+
+	/* g_time_val_from_iso8601() blows goats and won't
+	 * accept a valid ISO8601 formatted date without a
+	 * time value - try and parse this case */
+	if (sscanf (iso_date, "%u-%u-%u", &dmy[0], &dmy[1], &dmy[2]) != 3)
+		return NULL;
+
+	/* create valid object */
+	return g_date_time_new_utc (dmy[0], dmy[1], dmy[2], 0, 0, 0);
+}
+
+/**
  * as_release_node_parse:
  * @release: a #AsRelease instance.
  * @node: a #GNode.
@@ -600,6 +629,13 @@ as_release_node_parse (AsRelease *release, GNode *node,
 	tmp = as_node_get_attribute (node, "timestamp");
 	if (tmp != NULL)
 		as_release_set_timestamp (release, atol (tmp));
+	tmp = as_node_get_attribute (node, "date");
+	if (tmp != NULL) {
+		g_autoptr(GDateTime) dt = NULL;
+		dt = as_release_iso8601_to_datetime (tmp);
+		if (dt != NULL)
+			as_release_set_timestamp (release, g_date_time_to_unix (dt));
+	}
 	tmp = as_node_get_attribute (node, "urgency");
 	if (tmp != NULL)
 		as_release_set_urgency (release, as_urgency_kind_from_string (tmp));