[NIFI-1078] ${now()} returns string dates instead of a number of milliseconds

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.4.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.5.0
• Component/s: Core Framework
• Assignee: Joe Percivall
• Reporter: Randy Gelhausen
• Created: 28/Oct/15 02:35
• Updated: 28/Jan/16 14:36
• Resolved: 28/Jan/16 14:36

Description

Per the docs: The now function returns the current date and time as the number of milliseconds since Midnight GMT on January 1, 1970.

However, when using ${now()} in expression language, the result is: "Tue Oct 27 22:12:21 EDT 2015"