From 6eff1c481040bd3f20b21345442164dbcc1b693a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Thomas <nick@lupine.me.uk>
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 21:57:47 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Move to a non-standard format for dateTime objects returned
 to Tapatalk clients

This fixes interactions with the iPhone client. Win.
---
 lib/tapatalker.rb | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/tapatalker.rb b/lib/tapatalker.rb
index 99b08ad..c1b1de0 100644
--- a/lib/tapatalker.rb
+++ b/lib/tapatalker.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 require 'sinatra'
 require 'xmlrpc/marshal'
+require 'xmlrpc/create'
 require 'discourse_api'
 require 'json'
 require 'pp'
@@ -8,6 +9,40 @@ require 'base64'
 require 'net/https'
 
 
+# TODO: monkey-patch XMLRPC requests to support tapatalk's invalid bools.
+# The hack below works, ish.
+
+# We need to monkey-patch our XMLRPC responses to have invalid(!) responses for
+# dateTime.iso8601 objects
+
+module Tapatalk
+
+  class Time < ::Time
+
+  end
+
+end
+
+module XMLRPC
+  class Create
+  
+    private
+  
+    alias_method :real_conv2value, :conv2value
+    
+    def conv2value( param )
+      if param.is_a?(::Tapatalk::Time )
+        value = @writer.tag( "dateTime.iso8601", param.iso8601 ) # includes the timezone
+        @writer.ele("value", value)
+      else
+        real_conv2value( param )
+      end
+    end
+
+  end
+end
+
+
 PUSH_TYPES = "ann,conv,pm,sub,like,thank,quote,newtopic,tag"
 
 CONFIG = YAML.load( 
@@ -95,8 +130,8 @@ helpers do
   end
   
   def make_xmlrpc_datetime( string )
-    obj = Chronic.parse( string )
-    XMLRPC::DateTime.new( obj.year, obj.month, obj.day, obj.hour, obj.min, obj.sec )
+    t = Chronic.parse( string )
+    ::Tapatalk::Time.new( t.year, t.month, t.day, t.hour, t.min, t.sec, t.utc_offset )
   end
   
   def binary_xmlrpc( string )