Fix a bug that caused the external game deploy screen to interpret se…

…ssion dates incorrectly.

projects/gameboard-ui/src/app/services/api-date.service.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
+import { DateTime } from 'luxon';
+
+@Injectable({ providedIn: 'root' })
+export class ApiDateService {
+  toDateTime(input?: string): DateTime | null {
+    if (!input) return null;
+
+    // as of now, the API returns date objects as string (blargh)
+    const parsedDateTime = DateTime.fromISO(input);
+
+    // also, it stores null dates as 1/1/01, so account for that too
+    if (parsedDateTime.year == 1)
+      return null;
+
+    return parsedDateTime;
+  }
+}

projects/gameboard-ui/src/app/services/external-game.service.ts

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import { HttpClient } from '@angular/common/http';
 import { GetExternalTeamDataResponse } from '@/api/game-models';
 import { ExternalGameAdminContext } from '@/admin/components/external-game-admin/external-game-admin.component';
 import { DateTime } from 'luxon';
+import { ApiDateService } from './api-date.service';
 
 export interface ExternalGameActive {
   gameServerUrl: string;
@@ -21,6 +22,7 @@ export class ExternalGameService {
   errors$ = this._errors$.asObservable();
 
   constructor(
+    private apiDateService: ApiDateService,
     private apiUrl: ApiUrlService,
     private config: ConfigService,
     private httpClient: HttpClient,
@@ -66,10 +68,9 @@ export class ExternalGameService {
 
   public getAdminContext(gameId: string): Observable<ExternalGameAdminContext> {
     return this.httpClient.get<ExternalGameAdminContext>(this.apiUrl.build(`/admin/games/external/${gameId}`)).pipe(
-      // fix dates to be date objects and not dumb strings
       map(ctx => {
-        ctx.startTime = !!ctx.startTime ? DateTime.fromISO(ctx.startTime!.toString()) : undefined;
-        ctx.endTime = !!ctx.endTime ? DateTime.fromISO(ctx.endTime!.toString()) : undefined;
+        ctx.startTime = this.apiDateService.toDateTime(ctx.startTime?.toString()) || undefined;
+        ctx.endTime = this.apiDateService.toDateTime(ctx.endTime?.toString()) || undefined;
 
         return ctx;
       })