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module Time::EpochMillisConverter

Converter to be used with JSON::Serializable and YAML::Serializable to serialize a Time instance as the number of milliseconds since the unix epoch. See Time#to_unix_ms.

require "json"

class Timestamp
  include JSON::Serializable

  @[JSON::Field(converter: Time::EpochMillisConverter)]
  property value : Time
end

timestamp = Timestamp.from_json(%({"value": 1459860483856}))
timestamp.value   # => 2016-04-05 12:48:03.856 UTC
timestamp.to_json # => %({"value":1459860483856})

Class methods

.from_json(value : JSON::PullParser) : Time

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.to_json(value : Time, json : JSON::Builder)

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.to_yaml(value : Time, yaml : YAML::Nodes::Builder)

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