Hi there,
I need your help - I want to parse use a timestamp which is the state of a String Item (my next alarm) as a timer.
not-working
import java.util.Date
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat
var Timer timer = null
rule "set alarm"
when Item alarmtime received update
then
var sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-M-d HH:mm")
show original
workaround
import java.util.Date
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat
var Timer timer = null
var actual_format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-M-d HH:mm") // 2017-1-2 7:30
var iso = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ") // for intermediary conversion
rule "set alarm"
when Item alarmtime received update
thenshow original
Results in:2017-02-09 08:47:30.714 [ERROR] [.script.engine.ScriptExecutionThread] - Rule 'set alarm': An error occured during the script execution: Could not invoke method: org.joda.time.base.AbstractDateTime.toString() on instance: Fri Feb 10 08:27:00 CET 2017
The time seems to be parsed correctly - can anyone tell me what I’m doing wrong?
rossko57
February 9, 2017, 12:35pm
2
Aren’t you trying .toString on something already a string?
No, this is needed apparently as openhab cannot infer the type.
As you can see in the error it also worked: Fri Feb 10 08:27:00 CET 2017
Mherwege
February 9, 2017, 1:21pm
4
@Christoph_B I don’t think you need sdf. Can you try this:
rule "set alarm"
when Item alarmtime received update
then
if(alarmtime.state != null) {
var DateTime mydate = parse(alarmtime.state.toString)
logInfo("test", mydate.toString)
if(timer == null) {
...
I need the initial format to define how the incoming string looks like.
I created a workaround:
parse timestamp in custom format using formatter
output in ISO using iso formatter
parse again with .parse
not-working
import java.util.Date
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat
var Timer timer = null
rule "set alarm"
when Item alarmtime received update
then
var sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-M-d HH:mm")
show original
workaround
import java.util.Date
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat
var Timer timer = null
var actual_format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-M-d HH:mm") // 2017-1-2 7:30
var iso = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ") // for intermediary conversion
rule "set alarm"
when Item alarmtime received update
thenshow original
So it seems to me that formatter.parse() returns something different than .parse()
