Notifications job date format

Question

I need a hint: how to change date format on jobs notification? I can't figure it out. As far as I understand, is related to messages.properties file, which I can't find. I created i18n directory with messages.properties file, but I'm not sure what is the format of messages file content. (found on albundy83 comment)

Date dateS = Date.parse( "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS", execution.dateStarted.toString() )
String dateStartedIso8601 = dateS.format( "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ" )

Date dateE = Date.parse( "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS", execution.dateEnded.toString() )
String dateEndedIso8601 = dateE.format( "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ" )

I have installed Rundeck 3.2.2 using RPM on CentOS 8.

Regards, Adi

Answer 1

To use that custom format you need to create a groovy plugin, follow this. Basically you need to create a .groovy file and put it on $RDECK_BASE/libext (as any plugin).

I did an basic example modifying this plugin and this. Take a look:

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat 
import java.util.Date
import com.dtolabs.rundeck.plugins.notification.NotificationPlugin;

rundeckPlugin(NotificationPlugin){
    onstart { 
        println("job start: data ${execution}")
        true
    }

    onfailure {
        println("failure: data ${execution}")
        true
    }

    onsuccess {
        Date dateS = Date.parse( "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS", execution.dateStarted.toString() )
        String customdate = dateS.format( "dd-MM-YYYY" )

        println("success: data ${customdate}")
        true
    }
}

Output (success job execution):

success: data 18-02-2020