Setting the date to the current date using datepicker in Spock/Geb

Question

I have the following code:

<input type="text" class="datepicker span8" name="targetDeliveryDate" id="targetDeliveryDate" field="targetDeliveryDate" 
data-date-picker="true" data-date-future="true" data-date-format="dd-mm-yyyy" data-date-autoclose="true" value="dd-MM-yyyy">    

I have been setting the date using the code below:

$("#targetDeliveryDate").value  "01-12-2013"

Note that this is really static. However this is what the requirement was. But I'm expanding my tests and I need to set the date to the current active date.

I have looked at several posts but nothing works. I have tried the following but none of them work:

$("#targetDeliveryDate").val(new date());
$("#date_targetDeliveryDate").datepicker('setDate', new Date());

Please let me know if there is a way we can set the date to current date.

Answer 1

Having spent the whole evening trying to figure out the implementation, I have finally managed to resolve it and the code snippet is below:

Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance()                   
def currentDate     

if(cal.get(cal.DAY_OF_MONTH) > 9){
currentDate = (cal.get(cal.DAY_OF_MONTH)) + "-" + (cal.get(cal.MONTH) + 1) + "-" +   cal.getWeekYear();
}else{
currentDate = "0" + cal.get(cal.DAY_OF_MONTH) + "-" + (cal.get(cal.MONTH) + 1) + "-" + cal.getWeekYear();
}

And to set the value:

$(#targetDeliveryDate").value   currentDate

Thanks for the replies above.

Answer 2

This should get you the date in the format you need:

var date = new Date();
var day = (date.getDay() < 10) ? "0" + date.getDay() : date.getDay();
var date_string = day + '-' + (date.getMonth() + 1) + '-' + date.getFullYear();

This should give you a in this format: "01-01-2013" (but with current date, so actually "02-12-2013")

Now you just need to set the value:

$("#targetDeliveryDate").val(date_string);

Answer 3

var d = new Date();
var currDate

if (d.getDate() > 9) currDate = d.getDate() + "/" + (d.getMonth() + 1) + "/" + d.getFullYear()

else currDate = "0" + d.getDate() + "/" + (d.getMonth() + 1) + "/" + d.getFullYear()

$('#targetDeliveryDate').val(currDate)

$("#targetDeliveryDate").datepicker({
    dateFormat: "dd-mm-yy"
});

DEMO