I want to write Java code in Jmeter to copy current date in a variable and use this variable in next request. Where should I write it?

Question

This is my code:

package dateTime;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.time.LocalDate;
import java.time.LocalDateTime;
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;

public class GetCurrentDateTime {

    public static void main(String[] args) {


        LocalDate localDate = LocalDate.now();
       String date = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy/MM/dd").format(localDate);
        log.info("The date is "+date);
vars.put("currentDate",date);

    }

}

I tried above code in beanshell, JSR223 pre-processor or post processor but not able to use it further.

Answer 1

If you're using Groovy as the language you can simplify your code to this one-liner:

vars.put('currentDate', new Date().format('yyyy/MM/dd'))

You can refer the generated value as ${currentDate} later on.

See Date documentation of Groovy GDK for more information on available functions.

Also be aware that you can achieve the same without having to write even a single line of code via __time() built-in function like:

${__time(yyyy/MM/dd,currentDate)}

Demo: