Show relative dates on plugin admin page

Leirbag Assuab

Hi Experts!

I'm developing a plugin and I need to show last time its configuration has changed on plugin admin page.

In the servlet invoking the template:

...
context.put("lastUpdate", autoEscalateConfigDao.getRulesLastUpdate()); //java.util.Date
...
response.setContentType(CONTENT_TYPE);
renderer.render(UPLOAD_TEMPLATE, context, response.getWriter());

In velocity template:

#if ($lastUpdate)
  <div class="description"><i>Last rules update: $lastUpdate</i></div>
#end

But this is showing something like "Last rules update: 2018-05-22 09:44:58.589"

I would like to show it in relative dates format (X minutes/hours/days ago, yesterday, ...). So I've tried:

$webResourceManager.requireResource("jira.webresources:jquery-livestamp")
...
 #if ($lastUpdate)
 <div class="description"><i>Last rules update #1: <span data-name="lastUpdate" id="updated-val" data-fieldtype="datetime"><time class="livestamp" datetime="$lastUpdate">$lastUpdate</time></span></i></div>
#end

But still the same. I've tried to surround with $datetimeformatter.format($lastUpdate), but it shows literally "$datetimeformatter.format($lastUpdate)".

I've been looking a lot of similar posts but I can't found a complete example.

I would like this date was shown in relative date format and changing when time passes, as date fields do in issue view screen.

Could you please give me some ligth about how to get this?

Thanks in advance!

________

Leirbag

Aleksandr Zuevich_6f4k0z

Hi,

you're almost done. I propose two things:

1) change lastUpdate type to Long and set the value autoEscalateConfigDao.getRulesLastUpdate().getTime();

2) add AJS.$("time.livestamp").livestamp() invocation to initialize livestamp.