Scriptella - Date format conversion not working

Question

I am having a problem in date format conversion while I am exporting data from MySQL to CSV. I am using scriptelaa.1.1, the latest one I guess.

Here is my etl.properties file:

driver=mysql
url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/<my_DB_name>
user=<user_name>
password=<password>
classpath=/path/to/mysql-connector-java-5.1.19.jar;

here is my etl.xml file:

<!DOCTYPE etl SYSTEM "http://scriptella.javaforge.com/dtd/etl.dtd">
<etl>
    <description>Scriptella ETL File Template.</description>
    <properties>
        <include href="/path/to/etl.properties"/> <!--Load from external properties file-->
    </properties>
<!-- Connection declarations -->
<connection id="in" driver="${driver}" url="${url}" user="${user}" password="${password}" classpath="$classpath">
</connection>
<connection id="out" driver="csv" url="report.csv">
    #Use empty quote to turn off quoting
    quote=
    null_string=\\N
    format.dob.type=date
    format.dob.pattern=yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss
</connection>
<query connection-id="in">
    SELECT * FROM test;
<script connection-id="out">
    $1,$2,$3,$4
    </script>
 </query>    
</etl>

dob is my column name in MySQL table, it is datetime type column there. Now when I export the data from MySQL the time comes in the format yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.S But I want yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss, so I have used

format.dob.type=date
format.dob.pattern=yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss

As it is suggested scriptella.1.1 has the feature and to use it, in the following link: http://scriptella.javaforge.com/reference/index.html

But it is not working. Can anyone help me out.

Thanks. :)

Answer 1

Formatting rules are applied to the variable name, therefore exactly the same variable name should be used for both format description and the expansion placeholder. In your cause, try using $dob instead of the column number.