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Alleyn's avatar
Alleyn
Contributor
4 years ago

In SoapUI Pro Current date and time - no longer working

After a .net upgrade my code for calculating the current date and time no longer works. The below worked fine before  with the below ${= new Date().format('yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSSSS Z')} but now I ...
  • richie's avatar
    richie
    4 years ago
    Hey Alleyn,

    So weird! It looks like it's parsing and escaping your double quotes and then moaning cos it doesnt like the escaping!

    I like your work around!

    Cheers,

    Rich
richie's avatar
richie
Community Hero
4 years ago

Hey Alleyn 

 

try ${=new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss").format(new Date())} instead

 

ta

 

rich

  • Alleyn's avatar
    Alleyn
    Contributor
    4 years ago

    Hi richie 

     

    Thanks for replyin - unfortunately it'll still same error being returned

    '0x0D' is invalid within a JSON string. The string should be correctly escaped. Path: $.occurredOn | LineNumber:

    26 | BytePositionInLine: 35.

     

    Might just get the value from a Groovy script instead and pass it in and see how that works.

    • richie's avatar
      richie
      Community Hero
      4 years ago

      Hey Alleyn 

       

       

      There must be something else going on.   A lot of people found they're use of that date() method failing about a year ago and I thought the method had been deprecated in the jre or I think readyapi! moved to openJDK or something like that and so everyone needed to use a different method going forward.

       

      I started using the following at that point:

      ${=new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss").format(new Date())}

       

      and the following is completely overkill, but you could try this which also generates curr sysdatetime

       

      ${=import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(); cal.add(Calendar.DATE, -0); new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss").format(cal.getTime());}

       

      HOWEVER - I suspect the second option won't help either as it still uses the SimpleDateFormat() & Date() methods like the previous option.

       

      What version of ReadyAPI are you using?  Also - I didn't understand the significance of upgrading the .net - why should this make a difference to ReadyAPI as it's Java.....???

       

      nice one 

       

      rich

       

      • Alleyn's avatar
        Alleyn
        Contributor
        4 years ago

        Hi Rich,

         

        Thanks for the reply - ignore the .net comment! I was getting that crossed with another issue I was working at the time.

        I get the below error with ${=new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss").format(new Date())}

         

           "occurredOn" : "startup failed:
        Script1.groovy: 1: unexpected char: '\' @ line 1, column 32.
           new java.text.SimpleDateFormat(\"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss\").format(new Date())                                  ^
        org.codehaus.groovy.syntax.SyntaxException: unexpected char: '\' @ line 1, column 32.

         

        In the end I just used the following to me get quickly going - not sure if it's the best solution but it works for me. I had to create a Groovy script and then just reference it.

         

        def CurrentYearTime = use( groovy.time.TimeCategory ) { new Date()}.format("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm")
        testRunner.testCase.setPropertyValue( "CurrentYearTime", CurrentYearTime )