Demonstration of Vogels issue saving dates inside objects inside arrays

vogels-dates-problem.js

const vogels = require('vogels');
const Joi = require('joi');
const AWS = require('aws-sdk');

// setup Vogels
vogels.log.level('debug');
vogels.AWS.config.update({
  region: 'us-west-1',
});

AWS.config.update({
  region: 'us-west-1',
});
const driver = new AWS.DynamoDB();
vogels.dynamoDriver(driver);

function insertByBothMethods() {
  console.log('Inserting test data....');
  // -- Perform Test
  const docClient = new AWS.DynamoDB.DocumentClient();
  const params = {
    TableName: 'testcases',
    Item: {
      id: 'standard insert',
      content: {
        payments: {
          manual_entries: [{
            id: 'vogels',
            date: '2015-02-01T00:00:00.000Z',
          }],
        },
      },
    },
  };

  console.log('Adding via AWS');
  docClient.put(params, (err) => {
    if (err) {
      console.log(err);
    } else {
      console.log('done');
    }
  });

  const TestCase = vogels.define('TestCase', {
    hashKey: 'id',
    timestamps: false,
    schema: {
      id: Joi.string(),
      content: {
        payments: {
          manual_entries: Joi.array().items({
            id: Joi.string().allow(null),
            date: Joi.date(),
          }),
        },
      },
    },
  });

  console.log('Adding via Voels');
  TestCase.create({
    id: 'vogels insert',
    content: {
      payments: {
        manual_entries: [{
          id: 'vogels',
          date: '2015-02-01T00:00:00.000Z',
        }],
      },
    },
  }, (err) => {
    if (err) {
      console.log(err);
    } else {
      console.log('done');
    }
  });
}


// -- Create Table
const tableParams = {
  TableName: 'testcases',
  KeySchema: [{
    AttributeName: 'id',
    KeyType: 'HASH',
  }],
  AttributeDefinitions: [{
    AttributeName: 'id',
    AttributeType: 'S',
  }],
  ProvisionedThroughput: {
    ReadCapacityUnits: 5,
    WriteCapacityUnits: 10,
  },
};

console.log('setting up table for test...');
driver.createTable(tableParams, (err, data) => {
  if (err) {
    console.error('Unable to create table. Error JSON:', JSON.stringify(err, null, 2));
  } else {
    console.log('Created table. Table description JSON:', JSON.stringify(data, null, 2));
    setTimeout(insertByBothMethods, 1000);
  }
});