Xp20:current-dateTime() and Milliseconds

Question

Hi
Does anyone know how to obtain a dateTime to 1 tenth of a second?
2007-07-06T09:11:48+00:00 is being returned from the above function and I need the date in the following format
2007-07-06T09:11:48.1Z
Many thanks
Pete

Answer 1

Hi Pete,
Here's a sample BPEL process that fills a xs:string variable called currentDateTime with a formatted date/time string:
<?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8" ?>
<!--
  Oracle JDeveloper BPEL Designer
  Created: Fri Jul 06 14:58:24 CEST 2007
  Author:  Bastiaan Schaap, Floris Automatisering
  Purpose: Asynchronous BPEL Process
-->
<process name="BPELProcess1"
         targetNamespace="http://xmlns.oracle.com/BPELProcess1"
         xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2003/03/business-process/"
         xmlns:xp20="http://www.oracle.com/XSL/Transform/java/oracle.tip.pc.services.functions.Xpath20"
         xmlns:bpws="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2003/03/business-process/"
         xmlns:hwf="http://xmlns.oracle.com/bpel/workflow/xpath"
         xmlns:ids="http://xmlns.oracle.com/bpel/services/IdentityService/xpath"
         xmlns:ldap="http://schemas.oracle.com/xpath/extension/ldap"
         xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
         xmlns:ehdr="http://www.oracle.com/XSL/Transform/java/oracle.tip.esb.server.headers.ESBHeaderFunctions"
         xmlns:client="http://xmlns.oracle.com/BPELProcess1"
         xmlns:bpelx="http://schemas.oracle.com/bpel/extension"
         xmlns:ora="http://schemas.oracle.com/xpath/extension"
         xmlns:orcl="http://www.oracle.com/XSL/Transform/java/oracle.tip.pc.services.functions.ExtFunc"
         xmlns:xref="http://www.oracle.com/XSL/Transform/java/oracle.tip.xref.xpath.XRefXPathFunctions">
    <!--
        PARTNERLINKS                                                     
        List of services participating in this BPEL process              
    -->
    <partnerLinks>
        <!--
      The 'client' role represents the requester of this service. It is
      used for callback. The location and correlation information associated
      with the client role are automatically set using WS-Addressing.
    -->
        <partnerLink name="client" partnerLinkType="client:BPELProcess1"
                     myRole="BPELProcess1Provider"
                     partnerRole="BPELProcess1Requester"/>
    </partnerLinks>
    <!--
        VARIABLES                                                       
        List of messages and XML documents used within this BPEL process
    -->
    <variables>
        <!-- Reference to the message passed as input during initiation -->
        <!-- Reference to the message that will be sent back to the requester during callback -->
        <variable name="inputVariable"
                  messageType="client:BPELProcess1RequestMessage"/>
        <variable name="outputVariable"
                  messageType="client:BPELProcess1ResponseMessage"/>
        <variable name="currentDateTime" type="xsd:string"/>
    </variables>
    <!--
       ORCHESTRATION LOGIC                                              
       Set of activities coordinating the flow of messages across the   
       services integrated within this business process                 
    -->
    <sequence name="main">
        <!-- Receive input from requestor. (Note: This maps to operation defined in BPELProcess1.wsdl) -->
        <receive name="receiveInput" partnerLink="client"
                 portType="client:BPELProcess1" operation="initiate"
                 variable="inputVariable" createInstance="yes"/>
        <!--
          Asynchronous callback to the requester. (Note: the callback location and correlation id is transparently handled using WS-addressing.)
        -->
        <bpelx:exec name="getFormattedCurrentDateTime" language="java"
                    version="1.4">
            <![CDATA[java.text.SimpleDateFormat sdf = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat();         
sdf.applyPattern("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.S'Z'");         
String formattedDate = sdf.format(new java.util.Date());         
addAuditTrailEntry("Formatted datetime string is: " + formattedDate);        
setVariableData("currentDateTime", formattedDate);]]>
        </bpelx:exec>
        <invoke name="callbackClient" partnerLink="client"
                portType="client:BPELProcess1Callback" operation="onResult"
                inputVariable="outputVariable"/>
    </sequence>
</process>HTH,
Bas