POSTing a DateTime from Android to a WCF RESTful JSON Service

Question

I\'m trying to send a DateTime as a parameter to a method exposed over a WCF RESTful service with JSON encoding. The request looks like this:

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Answer 1

Just in case this helps somebody:

According to Microsoft, WCF uses a QueryStringConverter to do the url parsing. Thus, using this code (slight modification of the msdn example):

QueryStringConverter converter = new QueryStringConverter();
if (converter.CanConvert(typeof(DateTime)))
{
    string strValue = converter.ConvertValueToString(DateTime.UtcNow, typeof(DateTime));
    Console.WriteLine("the value = {0}", strValue);
}

we get the proper format for DateTime REST parameters: 2010-01-01T01:01:01Z

I did read that you tried this format, but just wanted to confirm that this is indeed the way it's supposed to work. I thought of answering since this question came up first when I searched for this.

This worked for me using .NET 4.0