Service Virtualization

Hi- I have a requirement where in one of the response field- “"issued_at" should be UNIX epoch time. How can I achieve that? Please suggest.

Response should be-

{

    "token": "abcde",

    "access": "999999999",

    "issued_at": {{UNIX epoch time}},

    "expires_in": "1234"

}

Regards,

Ritu

I believe doDateDelta and doDateDeltaFromCurrent use Simple Date Time formats. I do not know if there is a format that produces epoc time.

In a JSR or Scripted Assertion before the Responder Step (or prior to any custom logic that might be performing a parseInState on the VSI response object), generate the epoc:

long epocTime = System.currentTimeMillis() / 1000L;
testExec.setStateValue("UNIX_epoch_time", Long.toString( epocTime ) );

I don't care for spaces in property names, so in your VSI response example, I would do this: 

  "issued_at": {{UNIX_epoch_time}},

Thanks much Joel. I put the solution and validating. Looks good but not able to validate from https://currentmillis.com/ as it refreshes so fast.

I will let you know in case further queries but for now its working. Thanks!!!

Never heard of that site.

Download this attached test case and run it in ITR mode. 

If you add a looping dataset to count from 1 to 10 on the Do Nothing step, you can see the property value changing. 

Copy the epoc property from the ITR panel and paste it into some converter like https://www.epochconverter.com/ 

Thanks Joel. It was nice. I could validate this. Big thanks!!!

And, if you need a 13 digit time field, remove the divide by 1,000.  The divide by 1,000 reduces the time to from 13 to 10 digits.  Was not certain which one you needed.

yes Joel. My requirement was to have time in ms and I removed divide 1,000 and its working as expected. Thanks much!!!

Hi,

Just wanted to remind that in addition to running scripts in JSR step or scripted assertions it is also possible to add expressions directly in the responses inside the vsi.

Haven't tested it but the below should also work:

{

    "token": "abcde",

    "access": "999999999",

    "issued_at": {{=System.currentTimeMillis()/1000L;}},

    "expires_in": "1234"

}

Cheers,

Danny

+1 DannySaro an excellent point.