I faced the same issue, because as it is stated on FitNesse.MarkupVariables:
“The text in a variable is never interpreted as wiki markup. It is always raw literal text.”

Andras

Solves the old current-date-moving-target-testability problem!

Thank you!

If I type in !sysdate at the beginning of a line everything works.

Then I tried:
!define dateVar {!sysdate}

result:
variable defined: dateVar=!sysdate
(I expected: variable defined: dateVar=06202008)

then I wanted to use !sysdate within a fixture:
!|GuiAction|
|action|value|result?|
|click|BTN_TYPE_DISPO_MAIN|!sysdate|

and sysdate was not replaced by the date..

Do I miss something ?

Thank you in advance
Christine

The problem your having results from the plugin not being on your classpath… you must add the jar to your classpath when you run fitnesse. This can be done by adding the jar to the -cp argument in the fitnesse.bat file.

Hope that helps!
James

Exception in thread “main” java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: fitnesse.wikitext.w
idgets.DateExpressionWidget
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:268)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:251)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:319)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:164)
at fitnesse.ComponentFactory.loadWikiWidgetPlugins(Unknown Source)
at fitnesse.FitNesse.loadContext(Unknown Source)
at fitnesse.FitNesse.main(Unknown Source)

Exception in thread “main” java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: fitnesse/wikitext/WikiWidget
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Unknown Source)
at fitnesse.ComponentFactory.loadWikiWidgetPlugins(ComponentFactory.java
:126)
at fitnesse.FitNesse.loadContext(FitNesse.java:54)
at fitnesse.FitNesse.main(FitNesse.java:26)

Any ideas?

Thanks

That is handy.

You know, I was trawling the user group. We have done so much that I reckon, together, we could knock a cookbook out in weeks. I would happiliy contribute chapters on linking Fit with the development process, etc. You could write the plugins section. We are crying out for another book, on advance topics.

J

Thanks,
James

Jamie

So you have the source for this?

Handy plugin, thanks, I’ll try and return the favour to the community.

Jamie