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zsousa
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8 years ago
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working with dates

I am trying to get the duration between two dates using Groovy.

 

this is what I am doing

get today's date and save it to a property as "StartDate"

then after couple days elapsed I want to get the duration between the date I saved "StartDate" and today's date

 

but its not working for me, any suggestions ?

  • gilugopi's avatar
    gilugopi
    8 years ago

    Made 2 assumptions here, change them in below script if needed.

    1. Date format you use is "yyyy-MM-dd"

    2. StartDate property is saved as a test case property.

     

    Following goovy script should be able to give daysPassed

     

    def sdf = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd")
    def startDateString = context.expand('${#TestCase#StartDate}')
    def startDate = sdf.parse(startDateString)
    def today = new Date()
    def daysPassed = today.minus(startDate)

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  • nmrao's avatar
    nmrao
    Champion Level 3
    8 years ago
    How exactly you want? format? which context does it require to be used?
    • gilugopi's avatar
      gilugopi
      Contributor
      8 years ago

      Made 2 assumptions here, change them in below script if needed.

      1. Date format you use is "yyyy-MM-dd"

      2. StartDate property is saved as a test case property.

       

      Following goovy script should be able to give daysPassed

       

      def sdf = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd")
      def startDateString = context.expand('${#TestCase#StartDate}')
      def startDate = sdf.parse(startDateString)
      def today = new Date()
      def daysPassed = today.minus(startDate)