fix: Added Locale.ENGLISH to SimpleDateFormat for parsing the Last-Modified HTTP header
Added Locale.ENGLISH to SimpleDateFormat for parsing the Last-Modified HTTP header. This makes the date parsing locale - specific to English, avoiding possible parsing issues caused by default locale differences.
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This pull request enhances the reliability of date parsing within the GoFeatureFlagApi by explicitly setting the locale to English when interpreting the Last-Modified HTTP header. This ensures that date strings, which are standardized to an English format in HTTP, are correctly parsed regardless of the JVM's default locale, thereby preventing unexpected parsing failures and improving the stability of the API's interaction with HTTP responses.
Highlights
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Locale Specification for Date Parsing: Explicitly added
Locale.ENGLISHto theSimpleDateFormatconstructor used for parsing theLast-ModifiedHTTP header. -
Improved Robustness: This change prevents potential
ParseExceptionerrors that could arise from variations in the default system locale when interpreting date strings from HTTP headers, ensuring consistent parsing behavior.
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@kuaikuai thanks for this PR, there is a formatter issue that blocks the CI could you have a look?
Also I've seen the gemini review and this implementation is probably better to what I've written. If you have some time and willing to contribute to the provider by changing that it would be awesome.
If you can't this is not a problem, you can just fix the formatting part, and we can release a new version of the provider, and I will work on updating the way to read the headers later.
/gemini review
@kuaikuai thanks for this PR, there is a formatter issue that blocks the CI could you have a look?
Also I've seen the gemini review and this implementation is probably better to what I've written. If you have some time and willing to contribute to the provider by changing that it would be awesome.
If you can't this is not a problem, you can just fix the formatting part, and we can release a new version of the provider, and I will work on updating the way to read the headers later.
I submitted the code directly through the GitHub web interface, so it’s not easy to ensure proper formatting. I’ll make some adjustments to fix this. ^_^
` The DateTimeFormatter.RFC_1123_DATE_TIME in Java does not use ResolverStyle.STRICT by default.
If strict parsing is required , simply using DateTimeFormatter.RFC_1123_DATE_TIME as-is may not be sufficient.
This means it may accept some lenient or ambiguous inputs that strictly conforming RFC 1123 date-time strings should reject. Unfortunately, you cannot directly modify the resolver style of the predefined RFC_1123_DATE_TIME formatter, so achieving strict parsing requires additional work — such as creating a custom formatter based on it with ResolverStyle.STRICT. It is more complex than SimpleDateFormat("EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss zzz", Locale.ENGLISH).
SimpleDateFormat can be sufficient for specific use cases — especially when dealing with HTTP headers (like Last-Modified) where the format is well-known and consistently formatted per RFC 1123. `