Date
Date values are formatted using a SimpleDateFormat
object. The format can be one of two options depending on the loadmaster.ws.useServerTimezone vmparam. When the vmparam
is set to true, the format is yyyyMMddHHmmss and when it is false, the format is yyyyMMddHHmmssZ.
Currently, this vmparam is set to false.
Parsing of incoming Date values is also governed by the date format as described above with one exception. The service also accepts
the standard LoadMaster™/PowerBroker™ date shortcuts.
n - now (today at current time)t - todaym - first day of current monthw - first day of current weekq - first day of current quartery - first day of current yearme - last day of current monthwe - last day of current weekqe - last day of current quarterye - last day of current year
In addition to the date shortcuts, simple addition and subtraction on these values is supported. For example, use t1 for tomorrow and
t-7 for one week ago.
All of the shortcuts use midnight (0 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds) for the time component except for n which uses the current date and
time. To specify the time component, include the hours and minutes as two digits each in military time. For example, to specify one week from now at
1:30PM, use t7 1330.
Omitted values are interpreted as null.
Example
For example, if you had a widget with an id integer field and a create_date Date field, it might look like:
XML
This widget has a create_date of August 16, 2016 5:01PM CDT.
<widget id="1" create_date="20160816170100-0500"/>
This widget has a create_date of today at 9:45AM.
<widget id="1" create_date="t 0945"/>
JSON
This widget has a create_date of August 16, 2016 5:01PM CDT.
{"__type":"widget", "id":"1", "create_date":"20160816170100-0500"}
This widget has a create_date of today at 9:45AM.
{"__type":"widget", "id":"1", "create_date":"t 0945"}
See also