From 4212386e13cbc5a446c982f6985dcc6e7ee8344d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Felipe Gehrke <felipe.gehrke@suse.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 14:57:49 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] changing ParseHumanDuration to support timestamp values too
 (#684)

---
 pkg/resources/common/duration.go      | 11 ++++++++++-
 pkg/resources/common/duration_test.go |  8 ++++++--
 pkg/resources/common/formatter.go     | 18 +++++++++++++-----
 pkg/resources/virtual/virtual.go      |  7 +++++--
 4 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pkg/resources/common/duration.go b/pkg/resources/common/duration.go
index b4f5c9f0..73706596 100644
--- a/pkg/resources/common/duration.go
+++ b/pkg/resources/common/duration.go
@@ -6,11 +6,20 @@ import (
 	"time"
 )
 
-func ParseHumanReadableDuration(s string) (time.Duration, error) {
+// ParseTimestampOrHumanReadableDuration can do one of three things with an incoming string:
+// 1. Recognize it's an absolute timestamp and calculate a relative `time.Duration`
+// 2. Recognize it's a human-readable duration (like 3m) and convert to a relative `time.Duration`
+// 3. Return an error because it doesn't recognize the input
+func ParseTimestampOrHumanReadableDuration(s string) (time.Duration, error) {
 	var total time.Duration
 	var val int
 	var unit byte
 
+	parsedTime, err := time.Parse(time.RFC3339, s)
+	if err == nil {
+		return time.Since(parsedTime), nil
+	}
+
 	r := strings.NewReader(s)
 	for r.Len() > 0 {
 		if _, err := fmt.Fscanf(r, "%d%c", &val, &unit); err != nil {
diff --git a/pkg/resources/common/duration_test.go b/pkg/resources/common/duration_test.go
index 6091cc31..698c4f5f 100644
--- a/pkg/resources/common/duration_test.go
+++ b/pkg/resources/common/duration_test.go
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 )
 
-func TestParseHumanDuration(t *testing.T) {
+func TestParseHumanReadableDuration(t *testing.T) {
 	testCases := []struct {
 		name        string
 		input       string
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ func TestParseHumanDuration(t *testing.T) {
 
 	for _, tc := range testCases {
 		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
-			output, err := ParseHumanReadableDuration(tc.input)
+			output, err := ParseTimestampOrHumanReadableDuration(tc.input)
 			if tc.expectedErr {
 				assert.Error(t, err)
 			} else {
@@ -71,4 +71,8 @@ func TestParseHumanDuration(t *testing.T) {
 			}
 		})
 	}
+
+	// Testing timestamp parsing separately
+	_, err := ParseTimestampOrHumanReadableDuration("2024-02-12T15:19:21Z")
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
 }
diff --git a/pkg/resources/common/formatter.go b/pkg/resources/common/formatter.go
index 8f9bd72d..03ffa633 100644
--- a/pkg/resources/common/formatter.go
+++ b/pkg/resources/common/formatter.go
@@ -247,29 +247,37 @@ func convertMetadataTimestampFields(request *types.APIRequest, gvk schema2.Group
 
 				curValue, got, err := unstructured.NestedSlice(unstr.Object, "metadata", "fields")
 				if err != nil {
-					logrus.Errorf("failed to get metadata.fields slice from unstr.Object: %s", err.Error())
+					logrus.Warnf("failed to get metadata.fields slice from unstr.Object: %s", err.Error())
+					return
 				}
 
 				if !got {
-					logrus.Debugf("couldn't find metadata.fields at unstr.Object")
+					logrus.Warnf("couldn't find metadata.fields at unstr.Object")
 					return
 				}
 
 				timeValue, ok := curValue[index].(string)
 				if !ok {
-					logrus.Debugf("time field isn't a string")
+					logrus.Warnf("time field isn't a string")
 					return
 				}
+
 				millis, err := strconv.ParseInt(timeValue, 10, 64)
 				if err != nil {
-					logrus.Warnf("failed to convert timestamp value: %s", err.Error())
+					logrus.Warnf("convert timestamp value: %s failed with error: %s", timeValue, err.Error())
 					return
 				}
 
 				timestamp := time.Unix(0, millis*int64(time.Millisecond))
 				dur := time.Since(timestamp)
 
-				curValue[index] = duration.HumanDuration(dur)
+				humanDuration := duration.HumanDuration(dur)
+				if humanDuration == "<invalid>" {
+					logrus.Warnf("couldn't convert value %d into human duration for column %s", int64(dur), col.Name)
+					return
+				}
+
+				curValue[index] = humanDuration
 				if err := unstructured.SetNestedSlice(unstr.Object, curValue, "metadata", "fields"); err != nil {
 					logrus.Errorf("failed to set value back to metadata.fields slice: %s", err.Error())
 					return
diff --git a/pkg/resources/virtual/virtual.go b/pkg/resources/virtual/virtual.go
index 99fa4c0c..da6a46f9 100644
--- a/pkg/resources/virtual/virtual.go
+++ b/pkg/resources/virtual/virtual.go
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/rancher/steve/pkg/resources/virtual/clusters"
 	"github.com/rancher/steve/pkg/resources/virtual/common"
 	"github.com/rancher/steve/pkg/resources/virtual/events"
+	"github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1/unstructured"
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/schema"
 	"k8s.io/client-go/tools/cache"
@@ -64,9 +65,11 @@ func (t *TransformBuilder) GetTransformFunc(gvk schema.GroupVersionKind, columns
 				if !cast {
 					return nil, fmt.Errorf("could not cast metadata.fields %d to string", index)
 				}
-				duration, err := rescommon.ParseHumanReadableDuration(value)
+
+				duration, err := rescommon.ParseTimestampOrHumanReadableDuration(value)
 				if err != nil {
-					return nil, err
+					logrus.Errorf("parse timestamp %s, failed with error: %s", value, err)
+					return obj, nil
 				}
 
 				curValue[index] = fmt.Sprintf("%d", now.Add(-duration).UnixMilli())