Getting a User Profile "Date" Property as NSDate

[Horsie_Software]

Hi,

Pushing an NSDate as a user profile property:

[cleverTap profilePush:@{kDatePropertyString: [NSDate new]}];

produces a clear date property within the CleverTap dashboard.

Getting that property:

[cleverTap profileGet:kDatePropertyString];

appears to return an NSString such as:
"$D_1501684346" with class "__NSCFString".

I don't understand the format and can't see it documented anywhere - how can I obtain an NSDate back from the user profile for this property?

Thank you

Alex

[Horsie_Software]

Having consulted with support and solved this issue via email I am posting the solution:

CleverTap returns user profile properties originally set from NSDate as NSStrings using epoch-formatting - the time in seconds since 1970.

One can convert them to NSDate as follows:

NSMutableString *mEpochString = [[cleverTap profileGet:kDatePropertyString] mutableCopy];
NSDate *date = nil;
if (epochString) {
     NSRange range = [mEpochString rangeOfString:@"$D_"];
     if (range.location != NSNotFound) {
         [mEpochString deleteCharactersInRange:range];
         if ([mEpochString length] > 9) { date = [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSince1970:[mEpochString doubleValue]]; }
     }
 }

Feel free to improve the validation checks - this is just a sketched example.