SoapUI JSON response DateTime format validation

Hi,

There's loads of examples on the Internet about using Groovy to validate a string against a given date format.  Lot's of regular expression examples and so on.  I've done this elsewhere, but I use Date Parse inside a try-catch-finally block.

E.g. Here's Groovy snippet that shows how the date does not parse...

import static groovy.test.GroovyAssert.assertTrue;
def validated;

try {
	validated = false;
	def invalidDate = Date.parse('dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss', '01\01\2001 09:02:58');
	validated = true;
} catch(java.text.ParseException ex) {
	log.info("Cannot Parse " + ex);
	validated = false;
} finally {
	log.info("Is my date string valid? " + validated);	
	//assertTrue("Is my date string valid? ", validated);
	return validated;
}

And here's an example where it does parse and is therefore valid.

import static groovy.test.GroovyAssert.assertTrue;
def validated;

try {
	validated = false;
	def validDate = Date.parse('dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss', '01-01-2001 09:02:58');
	validated = true;
} catch(java.text.ParseException ex) {
	log.info("Cannot Parse " + ex);
	validated = false;
} finally {
	log.info("Is my date string valid? " + validated);	
	//assertTrue("Is my date string valid? ", validated);
	return validated;
}

This example works as a Groovy script.  But if you dropped this into a script assertion, you can then use the commented out assertTrue as a real assertion.