While looking at the traffic between XenCenter and XenServer
5.5, I see that in all other places such as Task.created, Task.finished,
VM.snapshot_time etc., the ‘datetime’ type of field comes on wire
as a <dateTime.iso8601> element, e.g.
<Task>
….
<name>created</name>
<value><dateTime.iso8601>20090806T17:52:13Z</dateTime.iso8601></value>
</Task>
However the Event.timestamp field, which is also of type ‘datetime’
as per the Xen API specs, comes as integer looking string
<Event>
…
<name>timestamp</name>
<value>1249581133.</value>
</Event>
I was wondering why. Also what’s the dot at the end of
that number?
-Ajay