WFA - MVEL Function to get current date

[CLAYTONJS]

Has anybody been able to create an MVEL function to get the current date? Or is this even possible?

I was hoping to use this so that when I called the function it would return a date in a format i.e. ddMMMyyyy. I've been reading up and have been trying different things, but have had no luck what so ever.

Any help is appreciated.

Cheers,

Clayton

[trentino123]

Hi Clayton,

Try a new function with this MVEL code :

def Timestamp(hello) {

import java.util.Date;

d=new Date();

 return d;

}

During the test call it with Timestamp(1) , so it is not empty in the inputs, the number 1 is not used.

Hope it helps.

Thanks!

[sinhaa · Accepted solution]

Good solution terentino. As an alternative which completely gives date in format ddMMyyyy is the below function.

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def GetDate(hello) {
import java.util.*;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

return new SimpleDateFormat("ddMMyyyy").format(Calendar.getInstance().getTime());
}

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Call it the same way like GetDate(1).

sinhaa

[Adai]

Hi Clayton,

          I got this from one of the community contributors, bestinj.

def getDate(data)
{
java.util.Calendar cal= java.util.Calendar.getInstance(java.util.Locale.getDefault()) ;
java.text.SimpleDateFormat format = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("HH-mm-MM-dd-yy");
return format.format(cal.getTime());
}

Call the function as getDate(1)

Thanks to bestinj for the help

You can play with the SimpleDateFormat("HH-mm-MM-dd-yy") for different date formats.

Hope this helps.

Regards

adai

[CLAYTONJS]

That is perfect guys. Thank you very much. You have made my life much easier and my WFA workflows a lot cleaner.

Cheers,

Clayton

[Siegfried]

Above solutiuons caused a syntax error on my system, so I created this one : 

def getDate(dateFormat) {

// dateFormat - string for SimpleDateFormat

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
Date curDate = new Date();
SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat(dateFormat);
String DateToStr = format.format(curDate);
return (DateToStr);
}

 You call it : getDate('yyyy_MM_dd')