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mgroen2
Super Contributor
8 years ago

question about dynamically creating variable value

Hi,   I have a question: I have a put request, in the body there is a date value which needs to be entered. I need the value of this date to be dynamic: it should always be current date, so t...
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groovyguy
Community Hero
8 years ago

You can make use of inline-groovy-scripting. It's similar to referencing something with Property Expansion. Here's an example below:

 

${= Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone('GMT')).format("yyyy-MM-dd")}

Property Expansion uses the format ${...}. If you use ${=...} that tells ReadyAPI to evaluate whatever comes after the equal sign as a groovy script and will put the result in there.