Confluence custom user macro relative date not working anymore

[Francois Sabatini]

Hi,

We have a custom user macro that is no longer working and we are not able to fix the code.

This user macro compute dates based on current date

Here is the code:

## Macro title: Relative Date
## Macro has a body: No
## Body processing: No macro body
##

## This user macro compute date base on current date and the parameters

## @Param type:title=Type|type=enum|required=true|enumValues=Day,Week,Month,Year
## @Param increment:title=Increment|type=int|required=true|desc= Increment value
## @Param rounded:title=Round|type=enum|required=false|enumValues=Up,Down

## declare variables and initialize as java date objects with current date

#set ($newDate = $action.dateFormatter.calendar)
#set($increment = $generalUtil.convertToInteger("$paramincrement"))
$newDate.setTime($content.currentDate)

## https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/constant-values.html#java.util.Calendar.WEEK_OF_MONTH

##Year
#if( $paramtype == "Year" )
$newDate.add(1, $increment)
#if( $paramrounded == "Up")
$newDate.set(6, $newDate.getActualMaximum(6))
#elseif( $paramrounded == "Down" )
$newDate.set(6, 1)
#end
##Month
#elseif( $paramtype == "Month" )
$newDate.add(2, $increment)
#if( $paramrounded == "Up")
$newDate.set(5, $newDate.getActualMaximum(5))
#elseif( $paramrounded == "Down" )
$newDate.set(5, 1)
#end

##Week
#elseif( $paramtype == "Week" )
$newDate.add(4, $increment)
#if( $paramrounded == "Up")
$newDate.set(7, $newDate.getActualMaximum(7))
#elseif( $paramrounded == "Down" )
$newDate.set(7, 1)
#end

##Day
#elseif( $paramtype == "Day" )
$newDate.add(6, $increment)
#end

<time datetime="$action.dateFormatter.formatGivenString("yyyy-MM-dd", $newDate.time)" class="date-upcoming">$action.dateFormatter.formatGivenString("dd MMM yyyy", $newDate.time)</time>

The type of error messages we see in Confluence now wherever the macro is used:

$newDate.setTime($content.currentDate) $newDate.add(2, $increment) $newDate.set(5, $newDate.getActualMaximum(5)) 

Anyone as an idea what is wrong in the code? It used to work fine until just recently...

Thanks!

[Matt · Accepted solution]

Was Confluence recently updated? This is a "feature" introduced in 7.19.x, more information about the bug and a workaround here: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-82741?src=confmacro

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[Florian Bonniec]

@Francois Sabatini

The workaround of adding the JVM param works on Confluence 8.3 on my side, it should fix your issue. Confluence version do not fix the issue but the workaround does.

-Dmacro.required.velocity.context.keys=generalUtil,bootstrap,containerContext,action,req,content

Thx @Matt  

Regards

[Francois Sabatini]

Thank you! The workaround worked for us. Updating Confluence did not resolve the issue