duration

duration(period: { days?: Number, hours?: Number, minutes?: Number, seconds?: Number }): Period

Creates a Period value that represents a number of days, hours, minutes, or seconds.

Introduced in DataWeave version 2.4.0.

Parameters

Name Description

Name	Description
`period`	An object such as `{days:4, hours:11, minutes:45, seconds: 55}`. The key-value pairs are optional and can be specified in any order. An empty object (`{}`) returns the Period value `"PT0S"` (zero seconds). The default value of each key is `0`. Valid values are whole or decimal numbers, which can be positive or negative. Key names are selectable.

period

An object such as {days:4, hours:11, minutes:45, seconds: 55}. The key-value pairs are optional and can be specified in any order. An empty object ({}) returns the Period value "PT0S" (zero seconds). The default value of each key is 0. Valid values are whole or decimal numbers, which can be positive or negative. Key names are selectable.

Example

This example shows how duration behaves with different inputs.

Source

%dw 2.0
import * from dw::core::Periods
output application/json
---
{
   dayAfterDateTime: |2020-10-05T20:22:34.385Z| + duration({days: 1}),
   dayAndHourBeforeDateTime: |2020-10-05T20:22:34.385Z| - duration({days: 1, hours: 1}),
   pointInTimeBefore: |2020-10-05T20:22:34.385Z| - duration({days: 1, hours: 1, minutes: 20, seconds: 10}),
   emptyDuration: duration({}),
   constructDuration: duration({days:4, hours:11, minutes:28}),
   selectHoursFromDuration: duration({days:4, hours:11, minutes:28}).hours,
   decimalAsPeriod:  duration({seconds: 30.5}),
   addNegativeValue: duration({ minutes : 1 }) + duration({ seconds : -1 })
}

Output

{
   "dayAfterDateTime": "2020-10-06T20:22:34.385Z",
   "dayAndHourBeforeDateTime": "2020-10-04T19:22:34.385Z",
   "pointInTimeBefore": "2020-10-04T19:02:24.385Z",
   "emptyDuration": "PT0S",
   "constructDuration": "PT107H28M",
   "selectHoursFromDuration": 11,
   "decimalAsPeriod": "PT30.5S",
   "addNegativeValue": 59
}