Support for Microsoft's JSON date formats

[mubeta06]

I am working with an Odata API interface which presents timestamp values such as lastModified in a format similar to `//Date(1530144000000+0530)/. Would it be possible to get such date formats supported. If this is something that could be supported I'd be happy to contribute this sort of functionality, a steer in the right direction would certainly be appreciated.

[castorm]

Hi @mubeta06 ,

Sure, timestamp parsing is managed by implementations of this interface:
https://github.com/castorm/kafka-connect-http/blob/master/kafka-connect-http/src/main/java/com/github/castorm/kafka/connect/http/response/timestamp/spi/TimestampParser.java

You can see a couple of examples here:
https://github.com/castorm/kafka-connect-http/blob/master/kafka-connect-http/src/main/java/com/github/castorm/kafka/connect/http/response/timestamp/EpochMillisTimestampParser.java
https://github.com/castorm/kafka-connect-http/blob/master/kafka-connect-http/src/main/java/com/github/castorm/kafka/connect/http/response/timestamp/NattyTimestampParser.java

Then it's a matter of configuring your parser:
https://github.com/castorm/kafka-connect-http#httpresponserecordtimestampparser

I hope this helps.

Thanks,
Best regards.

[castorm]

I forgot, you can implement and use this without contributing it to the project, but contributions are welcome!

Best regards.