Alfresco audit query: fromTime/toTime seem to have no effect - rest

Question

I want to get all audit entries from an Alfresco audit application.
Following the Alfresco Audit REST API documentation, I wrote this query:
curl -u admin:admin "http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/api/audit/query/audit-custom?fromId=1&toId=100000&fromTime=2017-02-19T18:46:09.212+09:00&toTime=2017-02-20T18:46:09.212+09:00&user=admin&forward=true&limit=0&verbose=true"
(Note the fromTime={2017-02-19T18:46:09.212+09:00}&toTime={2017-02-20T18:46:09.212+09:00} part)
PROBLEM: This returns the exact same 90 results as the request without the fromTime and toTime parameters. By the way, I installed Alfresco on 2017-02-21 so the query above should actually return zero results.
Same problem with { and } characters around the dates
Same problem with simpler dates like fromTime={2017-02-19}&toTime={2017-02-20}
Same problem without the extra parameters
How to use correctly the fromTime and toTime parameters?

Answer 1

It is not obvious in the documentation, but fromTime and longTime must be entered as long values.
Here is the relevant Alfresco source code:
public static final String PARAM_FROM_TIME = "fromTime";
protected Long getParamFromTime(WebScriptRequest req)
{
String paramStr = req.getParameter(PARAM_FROM_TIME);
try
{
return Long.parseLong(paramStr);
}
catch (NumberFormatException e)
{
return DEFAULT_TO_TIME;
}
}
As you can see, format problems are quietly dropped, and default values used instead, which is what is happening with the requests included in the question above.
With long values, a valid request could be:
curl -u admin:admin "http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/api/audit/query/audit-custom?fromTime=1485152993728&toTime=1485239393728&verbose=true"
(Note the fromTime=1485152993728&toTime=1485239393728 part)
Here is a convenient Java snippet to convert dates to long values when performing tests:
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
long now = System.currentTimeMillis();
long lastMonth = now - TimeUnit.DAYS.toMillis(30);
long lastMonthPlusOne = now - TimeUnit.DAYS.toMillis(29);
System.out.println("Now:" + now);
System.out.println("Last month:" + lastMonth);
System.out.println("Last month plus one day:" + lastMonthPlusOne);
}
}