Merge pull request #48 from ECN/enhancement-date-parsing-for-header

Enhancement date parsing for header

api/ECNQueue.py

@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
 #------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
 # Imports
 #------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
-import os, time, email, re
+import os, time, email, re, datetime
+from dateutil.parser import parse
 from typing import Union
 import json
 
@@ -53,7 +54,7 @@ def __init__(self, queue: str, number: int) -> None:
 		self.priority = self.__getMostRecentHeaderByType("Priority")
 		self.department = self.__getMostRecentHeaderByType("Department")
 		self.building = self.__getMostRecentHeaderByType("Building")
-		self.dateReceived = self.__getMostRecentHeaderByType("Date")
+		self.dateReceived = self.__getParsedDate(self.__getMostRecentHeaderByType("Date"))
 
 		self.jsonData = {
 			"queue": self.queue,
@@ -264,6 +265,23 @@ def __getAssignedTo(self) -> str:
 		"""
 		assignedTo = self.__getMostRecentHeaderByType("Assigned-To")
 		return assignedTo
+
+	def __getFormattedDate(self, date: str) -> str:
+		"""Returns the date/time formatted as RFC 8601 YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS+00:00.
+		Returns empty string if the string argument passed to the function is not a datetime.
+		See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
+
+		Returns:
+			str: Properly formatted date/time recieved or empty string.
+		"""
+		try:
+			parsedDate = parse(date)
+		except:
+			return ""
+
+		parsedDateString = parsedDate.strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z")
+
+		return parsedDateString
 
 	def toJson(self) -> dict:
 		"""Returns a JSON safe representation of the item.

requirements.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+aniso8601==8.0.0
+astroid==2.4.2
+attrs==20.1.0
+click==7.1.2
+Flask==1.1.2
+Flask-RESTful==0.3.8
+gunicorn==20.0.4
+importlib-metadata==1.7.0
+iniconfig==1.0.1
+isort==4.3.21
+itsdangerous==1.1.0
+Jinja2==2.11.2
+lazy-object-proxy==1.4.3
+MarkupSafe==1.1.1
+mccabe==0.6.1
+more-itertools==8.5.0
+packaging==20.4
+pkg-resources==0.0.0
+pluggy==0.13.1
+py==1.9.0
+pylint==2.5.3
+pyparsing==2.4.7
+pytest==6.0.1
+python-dateutil==2.8.1
+pytz==2020.1
+six==1.15.0
+toml==0.10.1
+typed-ast==1.4.1
+Werkzeug==1.0.1
+wrapt==1.12.1
+zipp==3.1.0