Re: export/reports POC

[Toms <toms baugis gmail com>]

Hi Jorge!

It is hard to work with patches in mailing list. Could you please
attach it to appropriate bug? (please create one if not there).

Regards,
Toms

2008/10/28 Jorge Vargas <jorge vargas gmail com>:
> Hello guys, as promise here is my first stab at the export/reports rewrite.
>
> Please consider this is very alpha code and of poor quality control,
> right now it works, but nothing more.
>
> Some things I'm going to improve before summiting a real patch
> - transform the "output" variable into a class with some handy methods.
> - have a proper time measuring object*
> - add data range support
> - add totals per category
>
> * I found a bug/omission with the time reporting, the code tends to
> round up to minutes and pass strings around. shouldn't there be a
> proper date/time/datetime class to calculate those values? I
> implemented a method to read from timedelta objects. I think we should
> have an object that will take care of all the time/date/datetime
> conversions.
>
> attached the patch. in order to apply it to the svn checkout you will do
> $ patch -p1 < path/to/initial-export.patch
>
> in order to make this run you will need to:
> $ cd <your local svn checkout>
> $ cp ~/.gnome2/hamster-applet/hamster.db .
> $ python -i hamster/export.py
>>>> console()
> #pprint output of your db
>>>> dump_to_file('something.txt',console)
> # the above will create ~/something.txt, it is compatible with all functions
> # if you want json output, install simplejson (python-simplejson in
> debian & familly)
>>>> json()
> # and to get plain text and html you will need tempita.
> $ cd hamster
> $ svn co http://svn.pythonpaste.org/Tempita/trunk/tempita tempita
> # so you will have tempita as a submodule of hamster
> # then you can do
>>>> text()
> # and
>>>> html()
>
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