topic How to send Date string to a NIWebService in LabVIEW

How to send Date string to a NIWebService

toddho — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:52:03 GMT

Group,

I would like to set up a vi in web services that will accept a date string ("2/28/2011"). Any idea on how I can encode this string in the URL so that NIWebServices will accept it as a single input rather than 3 inputs? I have tried to use %2f in place of the forward slashes but no go. I could use three separate inputs (month,day,year) but I would like a more elegant solution. I figured out the Time portion but I am stuck on the Date. Any ideas?

Thanks

Todd

Re: How to send Date string to a NIWebService

toddho — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 20:51:10 GMT

Group,

Just adding this for anyone with the same problem.

I changed the date format to %<%X %b %d,%Y>T. An example is:10:38:02 PM Feb 28, 2011. So to submit this as a variable from NI's web service = NIWebService, with the vi = VarTest accepting a string you would call:

http://computername.domainname.com:8080/NIWebService/VarTest/10%3a38%3a02%20AM%20Feb%2028%2c%202011

You should be able to convert this to a Timestamp.

I hope that this helps...

Thanks

Todd

Re: How to send Date string to a NIWebService

Greg_S-Video — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 22:25:01 GMT

Hello toddho

I just wanted to verify with you, have you solved your own issue? If you could please follow up with me, I'd really appreciate it. I'd be happy to help you solve this but let me know if it is still a problem to you.

Thank you!

Greg S.

Re: How to send Date string to a NIWebService

toddho — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:04:15 GMT

Greg,

Yes that solved it. Thanks for your intrest.

Todd

Re: How to send Date string to a NIWebService

Greg_S-Video — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:30:26 GMT

Wonderful!

Thank you for choosing National Instruments!