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Reputation: 13489

Set SoapUI property value to today + 1 year

The goal: to assign a SoapUI property that has a value of today + 1 year in the format yyyy-MM-dd (e.g., today is 2018-10-10 so I would like the property to have 2019-10-10).

What I've tried:

Attempt #1 (in-line property):

Doesn't work because JDK 8 doesn't seem to be part of the default Soap UI package:

${=LocalDate.now().plusYears(1).format(DateTimeFormatter.ISO_DATE)}

Attempt #2 (groovy script):

Returns an error because Date.format doesn't take a String and java.util.Date:

def today = Calendar.getInstance();
today.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 0);
today.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0);
today.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);
today.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 0);
today.add(Calendar.YEAR, 1);
def nextYear = today.getTime();
def nextYear_formatted = Date.format("yyyy-MM-dd", nextYear);
testRunner.testCase.setPropertyValue( "nextYear", nextYear_formatted )

error:

groovy.lang.MissingMethodException: No signature of method: static java.util.Date.format() is applicable for argument types: (java.lang.String, java.util.Date) values: [yyyy-MM-dd, Thu Oct 10 00:00:00 EDT 2019] Possible solutions: format(java.lang.String, java.util.TimeZone), format(java.lang.String), from(java.time.Instant) error at line: 8

Attempt #3 (groovy script):

Returns an error because SimpleDateFormat doesn't seem to compile:

def today = Calendar.getInstance();
today.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 0);
today.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0);
today.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);
today.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 0);
today.add(Calendar.YEAR, 1);
def nextYear = today.getTime();
def nextYear_formatted = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd").format(nextYear);
testRunner.testCase.setPropertyValue( "nextYear", nextYear_formatted )

org.codehaus.groovy.control.MultipleCompilationErrorsException: startup failed: Script20.groovy: 8: unable to resolve class SimpleDateFormat @ line 8, column 27. def nextYear_formatted = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd").format(nextYear); ^ org.codehaus.groovy.syntax.SyntaxException: unable to resolve class SimpleDateFormat @ line 8, column 27. at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.ClassCodeVisitorSupport.addError(ClassCodeVisitorSupport.java:149) at ...

(rest of stack trace omitted for brevity)

How do you add a property that has a value of today + 1 year in SoapUI?

Bonus question: how do you add JDK 8 so you can use it in groovy scripts?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1782

Answers (2)

Mike W
Mike W

Reputation: 3932

Do you have groovy available?

def nextYear = use( groovy.time.TimeCategory ) { new Date() + 1.year }.format( 'yyyy-MM-dd' )

Upvotes: 2

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Reputation: 13489

Further research yielded the answer: SimpleDateFormat needs java.text. in front of it. So

def today = Calendar.getInstance();
today.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 0);
today.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0);
today.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);
today.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 0);
today.add(Calendar.YEAR, 1);
def nextYear = today.getTime();
def nextYear_formatted = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd").format(nextYear);
testRunner.testCase.setPropertyValue( "nextYear", nextYear_formatted )

works.

Upvotes: 1

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