SCI: add 1 day to date in Exchange Property using Camel Simple Expression language

[AlanWaters]

Hi there,

I'm trying to add 1 day to a date that's in an Exchange Property, but it keeps erroring.

My understanding was that the following syntax would work:

${date:property.CamelCreatedTimestamp+24h}

But when I try it as follows:

It returns this error:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - Command not supported for dateExpression: property.date_in

Any idea how I can do this using Camel? Please note: I can't use 'date:now' which will give me the current date - I need to work with the date that's fed in from a property.

(I know I can use Groovy for the calculation, but I'm trying to keep it simple)

Many thanks,
Alan

[Ryan-Crosby · Accepted solution]

This option cannot be used unless property.date_in is of type java.util.Date.  The manner in which it is declared means it is going to be of type java.lang.String.

Regards,

Ryan Crosby

[AlanWaters · Accepted solution]

Many thanks for the information, Ryan. Is there a way to force property.date_in to be type java.util.Date?

[Ryan-Crosby · Accepted solution]

@AlanWaters only if you were to use a Groovy script to create the object because it doesn't appear to be supported in the simple Camel expressions.

[AlanWaters · Accepted solution]

OK, thanks Ryan. I'll just use a Groovy script to do the calculation. Much appreciated 🙂