Azure DevOps ConnectALL adapter sometimes throws "unparseable date" error

Products

• ConnectAll On-Prem
• ConnectALL
• ConnectAll SaaS

Issue/Introduction

When reviewing logs, an unparseable date error is sometimes observed

ERROR YYYY-MM-dd hh:mm:ss,zzz [-nnnnnnnnn | <automation_name> | <automation_run> |  | {<group_name>}][(connectall-flows) thread #nnn - Split] com.go2group.connectall.model.transformer.ms.MSModelConverter: Conversion of datetime field failed due to the error: java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "YYYY-MM-ddThh:mm:ssZ"

 

The related date field is still updated in the Azure DevOps system.

Environment

ConnectALL 3.9.2 and lower

Cause

It is possible to define multiple date formats and the software tries each format to find a match with the presented date.  If a match is not found, this error is generated.

Resolution

While this is working as designed and can be ignored as long as the mapped date fields are being updated in Azure DevOps, the behavior has been changed in version 3.10 to not show an ERROR level entry.