Fixes for harvest shell date parsing bug due to the Chronic dependancy.

Author: wilig

Rakefile

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-RUBY_OAI_VERSION = '0.0.6'
+RUBY_OAI_VERSION = '0.0.8'
 
 require 'rubygems'
 require 'rake'

lib/oai/harvester/shell.rb

@@ -45,10 +45,12 @@ def start
             else
               self.send(cmd.shift, cmd.join(" "))
             end
-          rescue 
-            puts "Not a recognized command, or bad options.  Type 'help' for clues."
-            puts $!
-            puts $!.backtrace.join("\n")
+          rescue NoMethodError
+              puts "Not a recognized command. Type 'help' for clues."
+          rescue
+              puts "An error occurred:"
+              puts $!
+              puts $!.backtrace.join("\n")
           end
         end
       end
@@ -73,7 +75,7 @@ def harvest(options)
             banner "Harvesting '#{site}'"
             if date && !date.empty?
               begin
-                date = Chronic.parse(date.join(' ')).utc
+                date = Time.parse(date.join(' ')).utc
               rescue NoMethodError
                 puts "Couldn't parse the date supplied"
                 return

test/client/tc_low_resolution_dates.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+require 'test_helper'
+
+class LowResolutionDatesTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
+
+  def test_low_res_date_parsing
+    client = OAI::Client.new 'http://caltechcstr.library.caltech.edu/perl/oai2' 
+
+    date = Date.new 2003, 1, 1
+    
+    # get a list of identifier headers
+    assert_nothing_raised { client.list_identifiers :from => date } 
+  end
+  
+end