Hello everybody!
Once a year it is necessary to write scripts therefore probably I ask a simple question. For ARIS-object .Attribute (Constants.AT_LAST_CHNG_2, g_nloc).getValue() returns value of Object type but in Help it is specified - String. So Date(Object) transformation doesn't work. How to get Date from the date attribute? Vladimir
Hi Vladimir,
try
var g_nLoc = Context.getSelectedLanguage();
var oModels = ArisData.getSelectedModels();
var d = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm");
d = d.format(oModels[0].Attribute(Constants.AT_LAST_CHNG_2, g_nLoc).MeasureValue());
Dialogs.MsgBox(d);
Hi Vladimir, Thanks for answer. In the previous message I didn't tell why Date to me. I need to compare 2 date attributes. The Numeric type will be suitable for me even. But the example presented above concerns an output format, instead of variables type.
Hi first-Vladimir,
One way is to construct the Date object basing on the Java object SimpleDateFormat and the date format that the last-change attribute is using. Let's take the format "dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm" as in the second-Vladimir's example then create a date object using the object java.text.SimpleDateFormat.
var oLastChangeAttr = <oModel>.Attribute (Constants.AT_LAST_CHNG_2, g_nloc);
var oLastChangeDateFormat = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm");
var d1 = oLastChangeDateFormat.parse(oLastChangeAttr.getValue());
From here you already got a date object, say d1, returned by the parse method of the object SimpleDateFormat. Do the same thing for your second date and get a second date object e.g. d2 and use compareTo function on one of those date objects for comparison.
if (d1.compareTo(d2) > 0)
{
// d1 is later than d2
}
More on the format syntax:
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html
Regards,
Sam