topic Inconsistencies in using date property in freemarker in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/inconsistencies-in-using-date-property-in-freemarker/m-p/269843#M222973 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'm added a custom aspect to site on creation, and it holds a property of type date:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&lt;type&gt;d:date&lt;/type&gt;<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>Now, I'm extending the </SPAN><STRONG>site.lib.ftl</STRONG><SPAN> file to display this date:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>"startdate": "&lt;#if site.node.hasAspect("my:customAspect")&gt;${siteNode.properties["my:customAspectDate"]?string("yyyy-MM-dd")}&lt;/#if&gt;",<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>Since I could not get to a site.node in the macro itself, I've extended the macro parameter list:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&lt;#macro siteJSONManagers site siteNode roles&gt;<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><SPAN>so I can call it from </SPAN><STRONG>site.get.json.ftl</STRONG><SPAN> as well as </SPAN><STRONG>person.sites.get.json.ftl</STRONG><SPAN>:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&lt;@siteLib.siteJSON site=site siteNode=siteNode /&gt;<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>Now, for site.get.js I prepare the sitenode in javascript:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>model.siteNode = site.node; // or the same with site.getNode;<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>My date is parsed correctly.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>However, when calling the macro from </SPAN><STRONG>person.sites.get.json.ftl</STRONG><SPAN>, I cannot prepare the site.node in javascript controller, so I do it instead in freemarker (by calling it directly):</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&lt;@siteLib.siteJSONManagers site=site siteNode=site.node roles=roles/&gt;<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>In using this form, I get this exception:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>"09090011 Wrapped Exception (with status template): 09090096 Error during processing of the template 'Expected method. siteNode.properties[\"my:customAspectDate\"]?string evaluated instead to freemarker.template.SimpleScalar on line 59, column 71 in org\/alfresco\/repository\/site\/site.lib.ftl.'. Please contact your system administrator."<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><SPAN>If I just display this scallar (${siteNode.properties["my:customAspectDate"]}), I get org.mozilla.javascript.NativeDate as a string in my resulting JSON:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>"startdate": "org.mozilla.javascript.NativeDate@7a6e5e2e",<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>I can repeat that by setting the same parameter for siteNode in the site.get.json.ftl.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I can even repeat it if I use siteNode.properties["cm:created"].</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>It seems to me that when javascript controller creates a model object from a node, the created date props get created as java.util.Date, or whatever Freemarker uses, and that when Freemarker itself creates that property, it will be turned into org.mozilla.javascript.NativeDate.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Can somebody please point out how can I could improve my work? What can I use so that my calls get the same values?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I am using Alfresco from SVN HEAD if it makes any difference.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 09 Oct 2012 17:38:54 GMT zladuric 2012-10-09T17:38:54Z Inconsistencies in using date property in freemarker https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/inconsistencies-in-using-date-property-in-freemarker/m-p/269843#M222973 Hello,I'm added a custom aspect to site on creation, and it holds a property of type date:&lt;type&gt;d:date&lt;/type&gt;‍Now, I'm extending the site.lib.ftl file to display this date:"startdate": "&lt;#if site.node.hasAspect("my:customAspect")&gt;${siteNode.properties["my:customAspectDate"]?string( Tue, 09 Oct 2012 17:38:54 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/inconsistencies-in-using-date-property-in-freemarker/m-p/269843#M222973 zladuric 2012-10-09T17:38:54Z Re: Inconsistencies in using date property in freemarker https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/inconsistencies-in-using-date-property-in-freemarker/m-p/269844#M222974 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Aaaaaand to answer my own question, in case somebody else bumps into this wall for two days too:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&lt;#assign nodeR=companyhome.childByNamePath["Sites/" + site.shortName] /&gt;<BR />"startdate": "&lt;#if nodeR.hasAspect("my:customAspect")&gt;${nodeR.properties["my:customAspectDate"]?string("yyyy-MM-dd")}&lt;/#if&gt;",<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>I don't know why it works this way and not the other, though.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 09 Oct 2012 17:56:09 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/inconsistencies-in-using-date-property-in-freemarker/m-p/269844#M222974 zladuric 2012-10-09T17:56:09Z