After adding a custom field in Splunk, why am I getting error "In handler 'oneshotinput': Argument "dateofdata" is not supported by this handler."?

[sdaruna]

Hi,

I need to add a field which represents the date of the indexed data. I need to fetch the results in a search based on data. So, I tried to add a custom field in Splunk.

I added a new field in fields.conf file as follows.

[dateofdata]
INDEXED = True
INDEXED_VALUE = False

As I need to index the data using Splunk Java API, I used it as follows.

Service service = new Service("localhost", 8089);
        connect(loginArgs);

        Args eventArgs = new Args();
        eventArgs.put("sourcetype", "whole_file");
        eventArgs.put("host", "local");
        eventArgs.put("dateofdata","20160125");

        IndexCollection myIndexes = service.getIndexes();
        Index index = myIndexes.get("my_index3");

        index.upload(
                "/Users/srini/imp_work/xml_dump/2016-01-16/xml_file_1.xml",
                eventArgs);

I got the following error when I executed it.

Exception in thread "main" com.splunk.HttpException: HTTP 400 -- 
 In handler 'oneshotinput': Argument "dateofdata" is not supported by this handler.
    at com.splunk.HttpException.create(HttpException.java:84)
    at com.splunk.HttpService.send(HttpService.java:452)
    at com.splunk.Service.send(Service.java:1293)
    at com.splunk.HttpService.post(HttpService.java:308)
    at com.splunk.EntityCollection.create(EntityCollection.java:95)
    at com.splunk.Index.upload(Index.java:1131)
    at com.srini.splunk.SplunkExample.main(SplunkExample.java:31)

[stephane_cyrill]

HI, _indextime might help you.

The _indextimefield contains the time that an event was indexed, expressed in
Unix time. You might use this field to focus on or filter out events that were
indexed within a specific range of time.

[sdaruna]

Hi Stephane,

I do not need the exact indexed time. I could index any date data at any time. But, i need to fetch data by date when receiving.

It was same error, if i tried to set _indextime field through program.