Support for Unix Timestamp

[Anoop Malav]

Hi all,

In settings datetime can be configured to parse and render in 'iso-8601' and python strftime formats.

How unix timestamp can be used?

Thanks.

[Tom Christie]

Take a look at implementing custom serializer fields, here... http://django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/fields#custom-fields

[Anoop Malav]

Thanks Tom,

it worked.

Also I am using django-filter package for filtering. So I need to convert timestamp here too.

I did override __init__ method of django_filters.FilterSet to achieve this. And I'm modifying querydict (qd = args[0].copy()) before I pass it to super class.

Is it the right way to that?

One more question, What would you prefer to use between 'iso-8601' and unix-timestamp? And Why?

[Tom Christie]

> What would you prefer to use between 'iso-8601' and unix-timestamp?

iso-8601 since it's human readable, more obviously a timestamp, can represent timezone information, and can represent dates as well as datetimes.