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breaux
Contributor
10 years ago
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Dynamic date REST parameter?

Is there any way to define a REST parameter that will automatically take like tomorrow's date?   I tried this, but don't know what's really possible or what the syntax would be for more complicated...
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  • rupert_anderson's avatar
    rupert_anderson
    10 years ago

    Or, this seemed to give the next days date and could be inserted as a REST parameter:

     

    ${=def now = new Date();now++;now.format("yy-MM-dd")}
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nmrao
Community Hero
10 years ago

This is a working one for soap request, and not tried for REST/Json, would you like to try below one?

 

${=import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.Date;def date=new Date();new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd").format(date)}

  • rupert_anderson's avatar
    rupert_anderson
    Valued Contributor
    10 years ago

    Or, this seemed to give the next days date and could be inserted as a REST parameter:

     

    ${=def now = new Date();now++;now.format("yy-MM-dd")}
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      breaux
      Contributor
      10 years ago

      Beauty, that does it. I think one key miss with my attempt was the "def" keyword.

       

      Presumably that's a Groovy thing. Of Groovy I know pretty much only what looks exactly like Java :-)

       

      Also suprised that Date++ is even possible!

       

      Finally, is there any way to know which classes don't require full package qualification?

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        rupert_anderson
        Valued Contributor
        10 years ago

        Cool, glad it worked! :-)

         

        Yeah, Groovy can be pretty slick!

         

        In terms of the default Groovy imports, please see:

         

        http://groovy-lang.org/structure.html