REST Connector - Current Date

[Community_User]

Originally posted on June 24 2020 at 15:46 UTC

Is there an easy way to send and format current date in a REST connector?

I have successfully used user.startdate in the past with the formatting shown below but it does not seem to work with other attributes.

${new java.text.SimpleDateFormat('yyyy-MM-dd').format(user.startdate)}\

I have also attempted to use the task attribute as a work around but have not had success.

${new java.text.SimpleDateFormat('yyyy-MM-dd').format(task.taskdate)}\

Has anyone had success with sending current date and formatting in a rest call?

[Community_User · Accepted solution]

Originally posted on June 24 2020 at 16:19 UTC

Hi Robert,

Below is working example for date variable in REST connector

startDate=${(new Date()).format('yyyy-MM-dd')}

[Community_User]

Originally posted on June 25 2020 at 05:16 UTC

Hi Robert,

You can also try the following.

${StatementDate = Calendar.instance; StatementDate.format('dd-MM-yyyy')}

[Community_User]

Originally posted on June 26 2020 at 14:44 UTC

Thank you for the suggestions but neither worked in my case. I am using a 5.4 instance of Saviynt and below is an snippet of my JSON.

\"EFFECTIVE START DATE\": \"${new java.text.SimpleDateFormat('yyyy-MM-dd').format(user.startdate)}\", \"EXPIRATION DATE\": \"${user.enddate==null?'':{new java.text.SimpleDateFormat('yyyy-MM-dd').format(user.enddate)}}\", \"USER STATUS\": \"I\",

[Community_User]

Originally posted on June 30 2020 at 15:12 UTC

Update: Issue resolved

We were able to use the syntax below. This is the only attribute we were able to use to send current date in our call.

${new java.text.SimpleDateFormat('yyyy-MM-dd').format(arsTasks.taskdate)}