Project targets netstandard2.0 but generated code uses DateOnly (.NET 6+) data type

[thom0707]

Hello,

I've got a legacy .NET Standard 2.0 app (.NET Framework 4.8) that I'm looking to add an API client for. Kiota is promising as .NET Standard 2.0 is supported, but I'm running into an issue where the generated code is using the DateOnly type which requires .NET 6+.

I can't share the full spec but was able to reproduce in a small example.

kiota-test repo.
Example of DateOnly

The generator appears to emit the DateOnly data type at least when a path parameter is of type string with a format of date. This does not happen when set to another format such as date-time.

Is this expected behavior? Is there any way to work around this within Kiota and without changing my input API spec?

[baywet]

Hi @thom0707
Thank you for using kiota and for reaching out.
This is an oversight since kiota-dotnet defines its own date type to ensure compatibility
The replacement of types is done here
And since indexers are only supported by dotnet, we should probably add logic to replace types for code indexers in the refiner.
Is this something you'd like to submit a pull request for provided some guidance?

[thom0707]

Hi @baywet. Thanks for the quick reply.
If I had some guidance, I'd be willing to try to work through this.

[andrueastman]

@thom0707 You would probably add a case and parameter in the function here to handle the CodeIndexer type. The function would then replace the parameter type in the indexer as well as it does for properties and return types.

[thom0707]

I converted to an issue and will be submitting a PR shortly. Thanks for the help!
Issue 5201.