imag/lib/domain/libimagtimetrack
Matthias Beyer b66371f79b Rewrite Store::new* API: libimagstore does not export backend types
With this change applied, libimagstore does not export backend
representing types anymore.

This change is necessar because when we want to switch the `StoreId`
implementation from "complex and stateful" to "Stateless and Cow<'_,
&str>", we need to be able to have a type which represents a "`StoreId`
plus the path of the Store itself".
This "the path of the Store itself" is passed around as reference, to
minimize runtime impact.

Because such a type should not be exported by the libimagstore crate, we
make it `pub(crate)` internally. But because the backend APIs also have
to use this type, we would export the (private) type in the APIs of the
backend.

Because of that we make the backend API also non-visible to crate users,
which also decreases the surface of the libimagstore API itself.

Besides:
Remove function `Link::with_base()` which is not needed anymore (was
used in tests only).

Signed-off-by: Matthias Beyer <mail@beyermatthias.de>
2019-02-15 20:53:28 +01:00
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src Rewrite Store::new* API: libimagstore does not export backend types 2019-02-15 20:53:28 +01:00
Cargo.toml Update lazy_static to 1.2 2018-11-11 13:05:55 +01:00
README.md libimagentrytimetrack -> libimagtimetrack 2017-08-27 18:23:47 +02:00

libimagtimetrack

A library for tracking time events in the imag store.

Store format

Events are stored with a store id like this:

/timetrack/<insert-date-year>/<insert-date-month>/<insert-date-day>/<insert-date-time>-<tag>.ext

Timetrackings contain

  • a comment (optional, free text)
  • a start date
  • an end date
  • a tag

by default and might be extended with more header fields as one likes.

The header of a timetrack "work" entry looks like this:

[event]
tag = "work"
start = "2017-01-02T03:04:05"
end = "2017-01-02T06:07:08"

Normal tags (as in libimagentrytag) are explicitely not used for tagging, so the user has the possibility to use normal tags on these entries as well.

The tag field is of type string, as for one tag, one entry is created. This way, one can track overlapping tags, as in:

imag timetrack start foo
imag timetrack start bar
imag timetrack stop foo
imag timetrack start baz
imag timetrack stop bar
imag timetrack stop baz

The end field is, of course, only set if the event already ended.

Library functionality

The library uses the libimagentrydatetime::datepath::DatePathBuilder for building StoreId objects.

The library offers two central traits:

  • TimeTrackStore, which extends a Store object with functionality to create FileLockEntry objects with a certain setting that is used for time-tracking, and
  • TimeTracking, which extends Entry with helper functions to query the entry-metadata that is used for the time tracking functionality

The library does not provide functionality to implement imag-timetrack or so, as the core functionality is already given and the commandline application can implement the missing bits in few lines of code.

Aggregating functionality might be provided at a later point in time.