There’s a branch now that exposes a `ExampleGenerator.DateTime(date: Date, format: String)`that will use the provided date converted to

String

using the provided format for the consumer test. Instead of the existing

ExampleGenerator.RandomDateTime(format: String)

that returns a formatted date for consumer tests. But I don’t think there’s a declarative way of defining

Date

objects though in Swift where you could just say “some day in the future added by 3 hours and 4 milliseconds”. You’ll need to use

Calendar

and create the

Date

object by adding date components.

I’d be very confused if I saw a:

{ 
  "startDate": "some words describing a date" // instead of exemplary "2023-02-13" 
}

so then I can’t use

Decodable

on to convert into

Date

object… 😅

Tracking this feature request in pact rust-core at https://github.com/pact-foundation/pact-reference/issues/180

@Marcelino @Ardiel PactSwift should be supporting the datetime expressions now on branch

feature/generator/datetime-expression

(link: https://github.com/surpher/PactSwift/tree/feature/generator/datetime-expression) Have it a spin and let me know if it works as expected. If it does I’ll release a new version.

Example usage:

.willRespondWith(
	status: 201,
	body: [
		"start": ExampleGenerator.DateTimeExpression(expression: "@ next hour", format: dateFormat)
	]
)

Some more info here https://github.com/surpher/PactSwift/wiki/Example-generators#datetimeexpressionexpression-string-format-string