Wiremock Date format

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I want to generate date in the format 2019-03-28T15:30:59+12:00 using wiremock.

I tried:

"currentDateTime": "{{now timezone='Australia/Sydney' format='yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ'}}"

but, I get exception:

wiremock.com.github.jknack.handlebars.HandlebarsException: inline: found: ''yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ'', expected: 'no viable alternative at input ''yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ'''

I have also tried escaping both the quotes around T, but it does not work.

What I am doing wrong?

The quotes at your format string are unbalanced due to the quoted T in the middle: `format='yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ`'. I guess you have to escape this somehow. — TobiSH, Aug 22 '19 at 05:45
@ShahbazAhmad I did not find a direct solution. So I used a hack instead. What I did is, put a placeholder in place of the date like `"currentDateTime":"currentTimePlaceholder"`. Then in a custom transformer (extend `ResponseTransformer`), replace that string with the desired value which is easy to do. — Rajkishan Swami, Sep 05 '19 at 04:33

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 06 '20 at 14:14

In case anyone else comes across this post in the future, the simplest (but hacky) solution that I used is to format the parts before and after the 'T' separately like so:

"currentDateTime": "{{now timezone='Australia/Sydney' format='yyyy-MM-dd'}}T{{now timezone='Australia/Sydney' format='HH:mm:ssZ'}}"

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 24 '22 at 04:32

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A simple workaround:

Declare a variable (myformat in the example)

{{#assign 'myformat'}}yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ{{/assign}}
Use it in the stub/mock

{{now format=myformat}}

A sample templated response is -

{
    "time": "{{#assign 'myformat'}}yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ{{/assign}}{{now format=myformat}}"
}

References

How to use custom variables in Handlebars for WireMock https://wiremock.org/studio/docs/response-templating/misc-helpers/#assignment

edited Aug 24 '22 at 04:32

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answered Nov 29 '19 at 10:17

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Welcome to StackOverflow :)! How can i declare handlebar variables inside the wiremock json document? – Rajkishan Swami Dec 02 '19 at 04:25

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 19 '19 at 16:05

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Try using following block of code. Working fine for me and probably the best way. format='yyyy-MM-dd\'T\'HH:mm:ss.SSSXXX'

answered Dec 19 '19 at 16:05

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score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 08 '21 at 19:50

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If you need to include the date in the ISO 8601 format, you can omit the format option:

{{now timezone='Australia/Sydney'}}

It will produce the following result: 2021-06-09T05:45:53+10:00. If you omit the timezone and just use {{now}} - it will produce a date in UTC: 2021-06-08T19:48:27Z.

For reference, you can check the RenderableDate class in wiremock

answered Jun 08 '21 at 19:50

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This is the correct answer; it needs to be placed higher up the list/accepted! – Rob Gilliam Aug 01 '23 at 16:36

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 24 '20 at 07:01

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"body": "{\"datetime\": \"{{now format='yyyy-MM-dd\\'T\\'HH:mm:ss'}}\"}"

answered Sep 24 '20 at 07:01

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Please add a short description and explanation to your code instead of just posting the code snippet. Thanks! – dns_nx Sep 24 '20 at 08:04

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Jun 23 '23 at 14:31

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Simpler version that works for formatting in Wiremock

"{{now format='yyyy-MM-dd'}}T{{now format='HH:mm:ss.SSS'}}Z"

answered Jun 23 '23 at 14:31

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