Incorrect date format

Designing Pipelines
#1

Hi,

My requirement is to pass the date as a string “YYYY/MM/DD HH:MI:SS” as a parameter to Oracle procedure snap. I amssusing the expression - Date.now().toLocaleDateString({“format”:“yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss”}).toString()

I can see the correct format in the value but while it is passed as a parameter it always has additional characters as below -

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Could you please suggest how I can correct this expression?

#2

@amit.saroha

What are the additional characters that you are getting?

The first screen date 2022/06/13 11:57:32 looks fine.

The second one 2022-06-13T12:03:38.000Z has completely different format.

BR,
Spiro Taleski

#3

Yes, when it’s passed as a parameter to Oracle Procedure Snap it changed to 2022/06/13 11:57:32 > 2022-06-13T12:03:38.000Z.

Any way to keep it as 2022/06/13 11:57:32?

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#4

“Yes, when it’s passed as a parameter to Oracle Procedure Snap it changed to 2022/06/13 11:57:32 > 2022-06-13T12:03:38.000Z.” - this shouldn’t happen.

From the screen I can see that the date is mapped from input("$p_processing_date"). It is not taken from parameter.

If you try to parse the value from parameter as date back, then you will get the “2022-06-13T12:03:38.000Z”.

So, if you procedure expect the field as date, probably you will need to handle the date conversion and format on procedure level. Otherwise, you can pass the field as string(without parsing back as date), directly from parameter: _p_processing_date

BR,
Spiro Taleski

#5

Actually, it’s passed from parameter only, please see below and I couldn’t understand what do you mean by _p_processing_date and where I have to pass it?

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#6

Hi All, can anyone suggest how to handle this situation?

#7

what do you mean by _p_processing_date

In SnapLogic terminology:

  • when you reference a field, it is prefaced with the dollar sign ($)
  • when you reference a parameter (which is defined in the pipeline properties), it is prefaced with the underscore (_). Parameters are strings.

So if the p_processing_date was a parameter, you would use _p_processing_date.
In this case, you are mapping a date to a field.

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#8

I don’t have a parameter it’s but the current data is generated in the mapper and I am passing it to oracle procedure snap as the parameter.

Do you think I need to change the date again to the string?

#9

toLocaleString() is adding the timezome, same for toUTCString()…you could just add a .split(’.’)[0] to remove the string value for timezone

#10

What is the purpose of the “Parameters to Integer” snap ?

#11

Oracle Procedure snap accepts number type parameter so I have to convert it to integer in this snap. This looks like a product bug to me.

#12

You’re using .toLocaleDateString() while passing a DateTime format. Also, you don’t need the .toString() function, the previous one already puts the date into stringified version. Make sure you change that and validate.