# RFC822/2822_sanitizer
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[Documentation](https://docs.rs/rfc822_sanitizer/)
A helper funtion that does what you wanted not what you said!
The world is full of broken code and everyone seem to reinvent daytimes.
If it encounters an invalid rfc822/2822 daytime it tries to fix it first before returning Errors.
This crates soul purpose is to try to fix the mess of the generators that do stuff like this:
`Thu, 05 Aug 2016 06:00:00 -0400`
`Mon, 31 July 2017 16:00:00 PDT`
`Wed, 20 Sep 2017 10:00:00 -0000`
`30 Aug 2017 1:30:00 PDT`
All of the above look fine at first glance. But all are invalid and would fail to be parsed with [`chrono::Datetime::parse_from_rfc2822`](https://docs.rs/chrono/0.4.0/chrono/struct.DateTime.html#method.parse_from_rfc2822)
Playground [link](https://play.rust-lang.org/?gist=52016537b3af751812d172d0c29ea399&version=stable).
```rust
Err(ParseError(Impossible))
Err(ParseError(Invalid))
Err(ParseError(NotEnough))
Err(ParseError(Invalid))
```
* The first one `Thu, 05 Aug 2016 06:00:00 -0400` is actually a Friday.
* The second `Mon, 31 July 2017 16:00:00 PDT` uses full lenght month Name.
* The third `Wed, 20 Sep 2017 10:00:00 -0000` has -0000 as the timezone, which is sort of undefined behaviour. For more see [#102](https://github.com/chronotope/chrono/issues/102).
* The forth `30 Aug 2017 1:30:00 PDT` uses single digit notation for Hour.
The dates above have been encountered while trying to parse rss feeds from the wild west eer the Internet.
The [RSS spec](http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification#optionalChannelElements) specifies the use of RFC822 for the date format, which is forward compatible with RFC2822. This crate proves that people/generators still get wrong a format witch was published in 1982.
Now if we were to use the sanitizer, we would actually get a correct datetime.
## Usage:
Add the following to your Cargo.toml.
```toml
[dependencies]
rfc822_sanitizer = "0.3.2"
```
### from [`examples/simple.rs`](examples/simple.rs)
```rust
extern crate rfc822_sanitizer;
use rfc822_sanitizer::parse_from_rfc2822_with_fallback;
fn main() {
let dates = vec![
"Thu, 05 Aug 2016 06:00:00 -0400",
"Mon, 31 July 2017 16:00:00 PDT",
"Wed, 20 Sep 2017 10:00:00 -0000",
"30 Aug 2017 1:30:00 PDT",
];
for foo in dates.iter() {
let fallback = parse_from_rfc2822_with_fallback(&foo);
println!("{:?}", fallback);
}
}
```
Output:
```rust
Ok(2016-08-05T06:00:00-04:00)
Ok(2017-07-31T16:00:00-07:00)
Ok(2017-09-20T10:00:00+00:00)
Ok(2017-08-30T01:30:00-07:00)
```
Though keep in mind that it would consume more resources.
```shell
$ cargo bench -q
running 4 tests
test bench_correct_dates_normal_parse ... bench: 20,741 ns/iter (+/- 1,000)
test bench_correct_dates_with_fallback ... bench: 21,133 ns/iter (+/- 282)
test bench_parse_invalid_dates_with_fallback ... bench: 119,116 ns/iter (+/- 3,706)
test mixed_sample_case ... bench: 431,814 ns/iter (+/- 8,526)
```