feat: use time crate to parse ISO8601 datetimes from API

Cargo.lock

@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
  "reqwest",
  "serde",
+ "time",
  "tokio",
 ]
 
@@ -108,6 +109,16 @@ version = "0.8.7"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "773648b94d0e5d620f64f280777445740e61fe701025087ec8b57f45c791888b"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "deranged"
+version = "0.3.11"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b42b6fa04a440b495c8b04d0e71b707c585f83cb9cb28cf8cd0d976c315e31b4"
+dependencies = [
+ "powerfmt",
+ "serde",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "encoding_rs"
 version = "0.8.34"
@@ -488,6 +499,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "tempfile",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "num-conv"
+version = "0.1.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "51d515d32fb182ee37cda2ccdcb92950d6a3c2893aa280e540671c2cd0f3b1d9"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "object"
 version = "0.36.4"
@@ -614,6 +631,12 @@ version = "0.3.30"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "d231b230927b5e4ad203db57bbcbee2802f6bce620b1e4a9024a07d94e2907ec"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "powerfmt"
+version = "0.2.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "439ee305def115ba05938db6eb1644ff94165c5ab5e9420d1c1bcedbba909391"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "proc-macro2"
 version = "1.0.86"
@@ -952,6 +975,37 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-sys 0.59.0",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "time"
+version = "0.3.36"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "5dfd88e563464686c916c7e46e623e520ddc6d79fa6641390f2e3fa86e83e885"
+dependencies = [
+ "deranged",
+ "itoa",
+ "num-conv",
+ "powerfmt",
+ "serde",
+ "time-core",
+ "time-macros",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "time-core"
+version = "0.1.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "ef927ca75afb808a4d64dd374f00a2adf8d0fcff8e7b184af886c3c87ec4a3f3"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "time-macros"
+version = "0.2.18"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "3f252a68540fde3a3877aeea552b832b40ab9a69e318efd078774a01ddee1ccf"
+dependencies = [
+ "num-conv",
+ "time-core",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tinyvec"
 version = "1.8.0"

Cargo.toml

@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@ edition = "2021"
 reqwest = { version = "0.12.7", features = ["json"] }
 tokio = { version = "1.15", features = ["full"] }
 serde = { version = "1.0.210", features = ["derive"] }
+time = { version = "0.3.36", features = ["serde", "parsing", "formatting"] }

src/libcanvas/courses.rs

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 use super::CanvasClient;
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
+use time::serde::iso8601;
+use time::OffsetDateTime;
 
 impl CanvasClient {
     pub async fn get_courses(&self) -> Result<Vec<Course>, reqwest::Error> {
@@ -13,8 +15,6 @@ impl CanvasClient {
     }
 }
 
-// Some time options are ISO 8601 standard times but they are parsed as Strings for now for
-// simplicity
 /// Represents a response from the `/courses` API endpoint. Some strings are plaintext and some are
 /// HTML. Some JSON objects which have not yet been typed are deserialized into plaintext instead.
 #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Debug)]
@@ -23,10 +23,12 @@ pub struct Course {
     pub name: String,
     pub account_id: u32,
     pub uuid: String,
-    pub start_at: Option<String>,
+    #[serde(with = "iso8601::option")]
+    pub start_at: Option<OffsetDateTime>,
     pub grading_standard_id: Option<u32>,
     pub is_public: bool,
-    pub created_at: String,
+    #[serde(with = "iso8601")]
+    pub created_at: OffsetDateTime,
     pub course_code: String,
     pub default_view: Option<String>,
     pub root_account_id: u32,
@@ -42,7 +44,8 @@ pub struct Course {
     pub syllabus_body: Option<String>,
     pub needs_grading_count: Option<u32>,
     pub grade_passback_setting: Option<String>,
-    pub end_at: Option<String>,
+    #[serde(with = "iso8601::option")]
+    pub end_at: Option<OffsetDateTime>,
     pub public_syllabus: bool,
     pub public_syllabus_to_auth: bool,
     pub storage_quota_mb: usize,