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This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for testing various domains, technologies, and applications. To enable testing, you must configure and enable the environment for testing.
Tester Guide - API Testing
This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for testing various domains, technologies, and applications. To enable testing, you must configure and enable the environment for testing. This guide is intended for API testers.
Extending HCL OneTest™ API functionality by using custom functions
You can add more calculations and operations to tests by using the HCL OneTest™ API custom function class. HCL OneTest API custom function is a Java™ class that extends the com.ghc.ghTester.expressions function.
The formatDate example for a custom function
You can learn about creating a custom function by using an example. The example shows how to build a function, called formatDate, that parses a string-based date representation and returns it in an alternative format.

Tester Guide
This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for testing various domains, technologies, and applications. To enable testing, you must configure and enable the environment for testing.
- Tester Guide - API Testing
  This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for testing various domains, technologies, and applications. To enable testing, you must configure and enable the environment for testing. This guide is intended for API testers.
  - API Testing
    You can use find information about the tasks that you can perform for testing various domains, technologies, or applications.
  - Extending HCL OneTest™ API functionality by using custom functions
    You can add more calculations and operations to tests by using the HCL OneTest™ API custom function class. HCL OneTest API custom function is a Java™ class that extends the com.ghc.ghTester.expressions function.
    - The formatDate example for a custom function
      You can learn about creating a custom function by using an example. The example shows how to build a function, called formatDate, that parses a string-based date representation and returns it in an alternative format.
    - Create the plug-ins in Eclipse
      HCL OneTest™ API recognizes functions that are packaged as Eclipse plug-ins. You can create a plug-in and register it as a function in HCL OneTest API from an Eclipse IDE.
    - Implementing the function class
      If you have a function that is written for HCL OneTest™ API 8.5, you can convert it to work in HCL OneTest API 8.6 or later.
    - Exposing the function
      You can use your own function with the function extension that consists of a number of attributes that describe the function (for example, name) and the class that implements the function.
    - Configuring the function in HCL OneTest™ API
      After the function is developed and a plug-in is generated, you should communicate that to HCL OneTest™ API by configuring the function.
    - Creating a function plug-in without Eclipse
      You can use Eclipse IDE to easily create the plug-ins. Alternatively, you can build a function by using the Sun Java™ 6 SDK.
    - Converting existing function classes with Eclipse
      If you have an existing function that is written for HCL OneTest™ API 4, you can use Eclipse to convert the function for use with HCL OneTest API 5 or later.
    - Converting existing function classes without Eclipse
      You can convert functions that were written for HCL OneTest™ API 4 to work with 5 or later, without Eclipse.
  - Working in non-GUI mode
    You can use the tools and executable files that are provided along with the product software. You can use these tools to perform different test actions in a non-GUI mode.
- Tester Guide - Service Virtualization
  This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for using virtual services or stubs to simulate parts of an environment if the real services are not yet available or because they are difficult or expensive to use. This guide is intended for API Testers.

The formatDate example for a custom function

You can learn about creating a custom function by using an example. The example shows how to build a function, called formatDate, that parses a string-based date representation and returns it in an alternative format.

The function syntax is as follows:

formatDate( date, inputFormat [, outputFormat] )

Note: The outputFormat parameter is optional. If it is not entered, the function returns the date in the default format, which is yyyy-MM-dd.

Note the following examples of the function:

formatDate( "05102004", "ddMMyyyy" ) returns the date in the format "2004-10-05".

formatDate( "05/10/04 13:25", "dd/MM/yy HH:mm", "dd MMM, yyyy hh:mm:ss a" ) returns the date in the format "05 Oct, 2004 01:25:00 PM".

Note: The complete source code and deployable formatDate function can be found in the examples\FunctionsSamplePlugin in the HCL OneTest™ API installation.