Add a new ResultMatcher for date formats in HTTP headers [SPR-13263]

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Brian Clozel opened SPR-13263 and commented

HTTP headers such as "Expires", "Last-Modified" all use date strings like "Tue, 21 Jul 2015 10:00:00 GMT".

A new ResultMatcher should be useful to test those date headers using a long timestamp:

this.mockMvc.perform(get("/persons/1").header("If-Modified-Since", now))
  .andExpect(status().isNotModified())
  .andExpect(header().dateValue("Last-Modified", timestamp));

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Affects: 4.2 RC3

Issue Links:

• MockHttpServletResponse.setDateHeader does not perform date formatting [SPR-11912] #16531 MockHttpServletResponse.setDateHeader does not perform date formatting

Referenced from: commits cf2aed9

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Sam Brannen commented

Thanks for pushing this through so quickly!