[AMBARI-23546] Oozie coordinator Workflow Manager web view sends date in wrong format to backend

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: ambari-views
• Assignee: amarnath reddy pappu
• Reporter: Frank Wein
• Created: 11/Apr/18 19:06
• Updated: 04/Mar/19 23:35

Description

Note: I've originally discovered this in the latest HDP version 2.6.4, which uses Ambari 2.6.1 afaik.

When creating a coordinator job in the Workflow Manager, you can select a start and an end date. The problem is that the date is in the wrong format for the Oozie backend. When I click on a date/time in the calendar, it appears like this:

"04/10/2018 03:55 PM"

When submitting the coordinator job the following error appears in the log:

used by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: parameter [end] = [04/10/2018 03:55 PM] must be Date in UTC format (yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm'Z'). Parsing error java.text.ParseException: Could not parse [04/10/2018 03:55 PM] using [yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm'Z'] mask

From looking at the code it looks like the web interface uses the wrong date mask? See here for the JS from the workflow manager: https://github.com/apache/ambari/blame/trunk/contrib/views/wfmanager/src/main/resources/ui/app/components/date-with-expr.js#L55

format: 'MM/DD/YYYY hh:mm A',

The backend code checks against this date format: https://github.com/apache/oozie/blame/4a05898518af353a36465805099c947918bf7d50/core/src/main/java/org/apache/oozie/util/DateUtils.java#L46

public static final String ISO8601_UTC_MASK = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm'Z'";

So the format does not match and thus the error.