[Toaster] Questions about date range function

[Barros Pena, Belen]

On 16/03/2015 06:47, "Reyna, David" <david.reyna at windriver.com> wrote:

>Hi Belén,
> 
>I have the date range selectors working now for Toaster-1.8, with just  a
>few remaining requested enhancements in progress. To that end I had a few
>questions.
> 
>1) How persistent do you want the date range values?
> 
>Do you want them just persistent to the page, in other words revert to
>dateMin and dateMax and you leave and return to the page?
> 
>Or do you want them persistent to the session, in other words preserved
>in the cookie stash?

I think persistent to the page: I am not sure we should assume you will
want to reuse the same dates within the same session.

> 
>2) To get the Datepicker to work I will need to restore
>³toastergui/static/js/jquery-ui.js² file. This file was apparently
>removed since Toaster-1.6.
> 
>I will mention that this file is 436 Kb in size, and will overwhelm any
>patch file submission. Should I commit this file in a separate patch? Or
>is there another way to get it back into Toaster without the overhead?
> 
>BTW, I do not think that there is an easy way just to push the Datepicker
>code from ³jquery-ui.js², without hacking and risk.
> 
>3) For the dateMin and dateMax, it would appear that I need to
>instantiate the build table in the view in order to sort it by the
>³started² and ³completed² fields.
> 
>Should I perhaps avoid a second sort for ³completed² by using the minimum
>³started² date as dateMin and perhaps the maximum ³started² date plus one
>as dateMax? The build tables are small now, but they could conceivably be
>quite large, and these values
> should nicely bracket the actual dates.

This should be fine, I think.

Thanks!

Belén


> 
>Thanks,
>David
> 
> 
>