如何通过xml在日期和时间中使用动态数据发布请求

Question

I wanted to do a post request in the form of XML , but thing is i don't want static data in date and time fields . I wanted to take today's date from system.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<site_banner>
    <title>Behat Test Banner</title>
    <type>site_banner</type>
    <language>en</language>
    <field_banner_message_str>
        <und is_array="true">
            <item>
                <value>Test please ignore</value>
            </item>
        </und>
    </field_banner_message_str>
    <field_banner_type>
        <und>
            <value>success</value>
        </und>
    </field_banner_type>
    <field_banner_start_date>
        <und is_array="true">
            <item>
                <value>
                    <date>06/01/2018</date>
                    <time>07:30:00</time>
                </value>
            </item>
        </und>
    </field_banner_start_date>
    <field_banner_end_date>
        <und is_array="true">
            <item>
                <value>
                    <date>06/01/2018</date>
                    <time>08:30:00</time>
                </value>
            </item>
        </und>
    </field_banner_end_date>
</site_banner>

This is the post call i am making , so is there any way we can make date and time dynamic according to system. I have tried including some code in JavaScript but did't work. It will be great help, as i am quiet new to API automation.

Answer 1

So i have been trying to solve this issue and found out we change the node data in XML.

<field_banner_start_date>
        <und is_array="true">
            <item>
                <value>
                    <date>$STARTDATE</date>
                    <time>$STARTTIME</time>
                </value>
            </item>
        </und>
    </field_banner_start_date>

if (strpos($node_data, '$STARTDATE') !== FALSE) {
     $node_data = str_replace('$STARTDATE', date('m/d/Y'), $node_data);  
}

So now here every time whne this code will run it will override node data of $STARTDATE to today's date and time.

Thanks for replying on my question! If this helps anybody i am glad!