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Dee1978
New Member
4 years ago

SOAP UI - how to pass Current date time json in UTC format and RFC 7231 format in the header

I am using SOAP UI and submitting a JSON submission. However I am not sure how to submit so that the current date/time is automatically populated like for the JSON body field as below "receivedDateT...
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richie
Community Hero
4 years ago

Hey Dee1978 

 

I was a bit confused by your post - do I understand correctly - you want an inline scripting option to generate the current date time (including timezone indicator using the format corresponding to 'Thu, 01 Oct 2020 13:30:23 GMT'. 

 

Is that correct?

 

The following:

${=import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(); cal.add(Calendar.DATE, -0); new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss z").format(cal.getTime());}

 

when executed generated the following in my request's payload:

"dateAttribute" : "Thu, 08 Oct 2020 00:43:03 BST"

 

I'm currently running this in the UK, and it's currently british summer time, hence the timezone ('z' flag) generated 'BST' in the value.  Once the clocks change 'BST' will be replaced by either 'GMT' or 'UTC' (although I dont know which)

 

 

Does that answer all your question?

 

Cheers,

 

rich