I'm not even in the mood to speculate how much time I've spent trying to convert this certain datatype from one of the frameworks we're using. I couldn't find it in the documentation, google and SO says to use a member which just doesn't work and seems to be deprecated.

I started writing my own converter which got way bigger than what I was comfortable with due to all the special cases needing separate checks and handling.

I eventually came across a function which does exactly what I needed. It was the one suggested by said googles and SOs, it was just... recently renamed.

Not sure how to describe this sense of "yay, I found the proper solution!" and "are you fucking kidding me". Thank goodness for devRant.