Similar question is with a decimal number e.g. 1403620278642.00 when calling toInstant on it it evaluates to 2014-06-24T14:31:18.642Z. Why does it not throw an exception?
On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 12:48 PM Dan S <dsti...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am working on NIFI-12756 to better understand when NIFI expressions can > throw exceptions. I have an attribute which is a negative number and I > thought calling toInstant would have thrown an > org.apache.nifi.attribute.expression.language.exception.AttributeExpressionLanguageException > but instead it evaluated to 1925-07-10T09:28:41.358Z. I tried using > toInstant as some of the unit tests (in nifi/nifi-commons/nifi-expression > language/src/test/java/org/apache/nifi/attribute/expression/language/TestQuery.java) > use it without any arguments although the documentation > <https://nifi.apache.org/docs/nifi-docs/html/expression-language-guide.html#toinstant> > details > using it with arguments format and timeZone. Can someone please clarify the > following: > > 1. Does the documentation need to be changed to indicate the arguments > are not required? > 2. Why does toInstant evaluate with a negative number and not throw > an exception? > >
