rest_v2 scheduled job won't run if it has a Date parameter

{
    "version"              : 0,
    "username"             : "jasperadmin",
    "label"                : "Some label",
    "description"          : "Some descr",
    "trigger"              : { "simpleTrigger": { "version"               : 0,
                                                  "timezone"              : "America\/New_York",
                                                  "calendarName"          : null,
                                                  "startType"             : 1,
                                                  "startDate"             : null,
                                                  "endDate"               : null,
                                                  "misfireInstruction"    : 0,
                                                  "occurrenceCount"       : 1,
                                                  "recurrenceInterval"    : -1,
                                                  "recurrenceIntervalUnit": ""
                                                }
                             },
    "source"               : { "reportUnitURI": "\/some\/path\/toReport",
                               "parameters"   : { "parameterValues": { "EndDate"         : "2015-05-07 00:00",
                                                                       "StartDate"       : "2015-05-01 00:00",
                                                                       "REPORT_TIME_ZONE": "America\/New_York",
                                                                       "UserID"          : 105
                                                                     }
                                                }
                             },
    "baseOutputFilename"   : "some output",
    "outputLocale"         : "en-US",
    "mailNotification"     : { "version"                          : 0,
                               "toAddresses"                      : { "address": ["user@jasperserver"] },
                               "ccAddresses"                      : { "address": [] },
                               "bccAddresses"                     : { "address": [] },
                               "subject"                          : "Some subject",
                               "messageText"                      : "See attached report.",
                               "skipEmptyReports"                 : false,
                               "messageTextWhenJobFails"          : null,
                               "includingStackTraceWhenJobFails"  : false,
                               "skipNotificationWhenJobFails"     : false,
                               "resultSendType"                   : "SEND_ATTACHMENT"
                             },
    "alert"                : null,
    "outputTimeZone"       : "America\/New_York",
    "repositoryDestination": { "version": 0,
                               "folderURI"                        : null,
                               "sequentialFilenames"              : false,
                               "overwriteFiles"                   : false,
                               "outputDescription"                : null,
                               "timestampPattern"                 : null,
                               "saveToRepository"                 : false,
                               "defaultReportOutputFolderURI"     : null,
                               "usingDefaultReportOutputFolderURI": false,
                               "outputLocalFolder"                : null
                             },

When this request is sent to the server an error is thrown:

An error occurred while executing it.

[see nested exception: java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.String cannot be cast to java.util.Date]

at com.jaspersoft.jasperserver.api.engine.scheduling.quartz.ReportExecutionJob.throwJobExecutionException(ReportExecution Job.java:338)

at com.jaspersoft.jasperserver.api.engine.scheduling.quartz.ReportExecutionJob.checkExceptions(ReportExecutionJob.java:33 0)

at com.jaspersoft.jasperserver.api.engine.scheduling.quartz.ReportExecutionJob.executeAndSendReport(ReportExecutionJob.java:605)

at com.jaspersoft.jasperserver.api.engine.scheduling.quartz.ReportExecutionJob.execute(ReportExecutionJob.java:222)

at com.jaspersoft.ji.report.options.engine.ReportOptionsExecutionJob.execute(ReportOptionsExecutionJob.java:49)

at org.quartz.core.JobRunShell.run(JobRunShell.java:213)

at org.quartz.simpl.SimpleThreadPool$WorkerThread.run(SimpleThreadPool.java:557)

Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.String cannot be cast to java.util.Date

at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.query.JRJdbcQueryExecuter.setDate(JRJdbcQueryExecuter.java:649)

at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.query.JRJdbcQueryExecuter.setStatementParameter(JRJdbcQueryExecuter.java:577)

at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.query.JRJdbcQueryExecuter.setStatementParameter(JRJdbcQueryExecuter.java:399)

at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.query.JRJdbcQueryExecuter$1.visit(JRJdbcQueryExecuter.java:332)

at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.query.JRAbstractQueryExecuter$QueryParameter.accept(JRAbstractQueryExecuter.java:157)

at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.query.JRAbstractQueryExecuter.visitQueryParameters(JRAbstractQueryExecuter.java:646)

at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.query.JRJdbcQueryExecuter.createStatement(JRJdbcQueryExecuter.java:317)

at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.query.JRJdbcQueryExecuter.createDatasource(JRJdbcQueryExecuter.java:196)

at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFillDataset.createQueryDatasource(JRFillDataset.java:1114)

at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFillDataset.initDatasource(JRFillDataset.java:691)

at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRBaseFiller.setParameters(JRBaseFiller.java:1314)

at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRBaseFiller.fill(JRBaseFiller.java:931)

at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.BaseFillHandle$ReportFiller.run(BaseFillHandle.java:120)

Solution:

First of all you need to make sure that the ContentType of the reuest is set to application/job+json. This is very important because otherwise the type unmarshalling will be incorrect and cause errors.

Secondly to pass the values you need to use the following syntax: "parameterName": ["value"]

Something like this:

"parameters": { "parameterValues": { "date": ["2014-12-01T00:00:00+00:00"] 
                                   }
              }

Here is an example of a valid and correct job descriptor:

Content-Type: application/job+json

{
    "version"              : 0,
    "username"             : "superuser",
    "label"                : "test",
    "description"          : "",
    "trigger"              : { "simpleTrigger": { "id"                : 3816,
                                                  "version"           : 0,
                                                  "timezone"          : "America/Los_Angeles",
                                                  "calendarName"      : null,
                                                  "startType"         : 2,
                                                  "startDate"         : "2015-09-26 10:00",
                                                  "endDate"           : null,
                                                  "misfireInstruction": 0,
                                                  "occurrenceCount"   : 1,
                                                  "recurrenceInterval": null
                                                }
                             },
    "source"               : { "reportUnitURI": "/organizations/organization_1/AdditionalResourcesForTesting/Reports_With_Controls/Date/Date_equals_2_1_1",
                               "parameters"   : { "parameterValues"   : { "date": ["2014-12-01T00:00:00+00:00"] }
                                                }
                             },
    "baseOutputFilename"   : "Cascading_multi_select_report",
    "outputLocale"         : "",
    "mailNotification"     : null,
    "alert"                : { "id"                     : 0,
                               "version"                : -1,
                               "recipient"              : "OWNER_AND_ADMIN",
                               "toAddresses"            : { "address": [] },
                               "jobState"               : "FAIL_ONLY",
                               "messageText"            : null,
                               "messageTextWhenJobFails": null,
                               "subject"                : null,
                               "includingStackTrace"    : true,
                               "includingReportJobInfo" : true
                             },
    "outputTimeZone"       : "America/Los_Angeles",
    "repositoryDestination": { "id"                               : 3817,
                               "version"                          : 0,
                               "folderURI"                        : "/organizations/organization_1/reports",
                               "sequentialFilenames"              : false,
                               "overwriteFiles"                   : false,
                               "outputDescription"                : "",
                               "timestampPattern"                 : null,
                               "saveToRepository"                 : true,
                               "defaultReportOutputFolderURI"     : null,
                               "usingDefaultReportOutputFolderURI": false,
                               "outputLocalFolder"                : null,
                               "outputFTPInfo"                    : { "userName"  : null,
                                                                      "password"  : null,
                                                                      "folderPath": null,
                                                                      "serverName": null
                                                                    }
                             },
    "outputFormats"        : { "outputFormat": ["PDF"] }
}