Restsharp, DateTime and UTC converted to Local Time when deserialized

[Ra Rodriguez]

Hello,

I inherited a project in Xamarin which uses the RestSharp component to consume the webapi exposed for the mobile devices.

When de-serializing DateTime properties like:

"Start":"2013-10-18T22:13:55Z"

This UTC value is converted to local time.

After searching for a while I came up to this post, which is using JSON.NET for the Deserialization w/o experiencing the issue.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16174316/why-is-restsharp-deserializing-two-dates-differently

Is there a work around this, other than the one suggested in the answer?

I see I can set the JsonSerializer and JsonDeserializer in the request, which have to implement ISerializer and IDeserializer respectively; is there any implementation using JSON.NET out there?

Thanks!

R.

[Ra Rodriguez]

Any ideas?

[Rui Ribeiro]

You can use the JSON.NET deserializer rather easily. In a recent project, I just used it, as the native deserializer was failing:

Here is an example:

                var response = client.Execute(request);

T newData = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<T>(response.Content.ToString());

That should do it.

[Ra Rodriguez]

Thanks Rui, was expecting to continue using the Typed api and plug a deserializer based on JSON.NET.

[Rui Ribeiro]

I do this inside a method with this signature:

public T Execute<T>(RestRequest request,String args) where T : new()

{...

}

So, from an external point of view, you lose nothing. It's a simple solution.