[ATLAS-1646] V1 and V2 GET entity response show different values for date attribute of a tag which has no value set.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.8-incubating
• Fix Version/s: 0.8-incubating
• Component/s: atlas-core
• Assignee: Ashutosh Mestry
• Reporter: Sharmadha S
• Created: 06/Mar/17 14:08
• Updated: 07/Mar/17 04:33
• Resolved: 07/Mar/17 04:33

Description

Created a tag with date as attribute and POSTed to /api/atlas/types. Associated the tag to an entity with no value for date through REST API. Association is successful .V1 GET Entity API shows 1970-01-01T00:00:00.000Z as value for date and V2 GET Entity API shows 0 as value for date.

V1 API :

/api/atlas/entities/b10e3c49-af76-4585-893e-c7de6a97ad9b

{
	requestId: "pool-2-thread-9 - 2c83885c-166b-418c-a7ac-441e1b68d3f2",
	definition: {
		jsonClass: "org.apache.atlas.typesystem.json.InstanceSerialization$_Reference",
		id: {
			jsonClass: "org.apache.atlas.typesystem.json.InstanceSerialization$_Id",
			id: "b10e3c49-af76-4585-893e-c7de6a97ad9b",
			version: 0,
			typeName: "EntityTraitTestClasshqorbbnkkx",
			state: "ACTIVE"
		},
		typeName: "EntityTraitTestClasshqorbbnkkx",
		values: {
			name: "EntityTraitTestEntity9psmssjmyp"
		},
		traitNames: [
			"addTraitOptionalAttrNotSet9psmssjmyp"
		],
		traits: {
			addTraitOptionalAttrNotSet9psmssjmyp: {
				jsonClass: "org.apache.atlas.typesystem.json.InstanceSerialization$_Struct",
				typeName: "addTraitOptionalAttrNotSet9psmssjmyp",
				values: {
					date: "1970-01-01T00:00:00.000Z",
					name: "addTraitOptionalAttrName"
				}
			}
		},
		systemAttributes: {
			createdBy: "admin",
			modifiedBy: "admin",
			createdTime: "2017-03-06T13:08:37.666Z",
			modifiedTime: "2017-03-06T13:08:37.666Z"
		}
	}
}

V2 API response

/api/atlas/v2/entity/guid/b10e3c49-af76-4585-893e-c7de6a97ad9b

{
	referredEntities: {},
	entity: {
		typeName: "EntityTraitTestClasshqorbbnkkx",
		attributes: {
			name: "EntityTraitTestEntity9psmssjmyp"
		},
		guid: "b10e3c49-af76-4585-893e-c7de6a97ad9b",
		status: "ACTIVE",
		createdBy: "admin",
		updatedBy: "admin",
		createTime: 1488805717666,
		updateTime: 1488805717666,
		version: 0,
		classifications: [{
			typeName: "addTraitOptionalAttrNotSet9psmssjmyp",
			attributes: {
				date: 0,
				name: "addTraitOptionalAttrName"
			}
		}]
	}
}

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