Feature request: Date filter

[marcusfey]

It would be nice to be able to filter the broadcast date.

I'm currently about to finish this feature.

Would it be too geekish to have to enter the dates as [23.12.2010,12.1.2020]?

Both from and to would be optional, spaces allowed, comma as separator.

That's the actual regex I would be using: /\[\s*((\d{1,2})\.(\d{1,2})\.(\d{2,4})?)?\s*,\s*((\d{1,2})\.(\d{1,2})\.(\d{2,4}))?\s*/

[bagbag]

To be honest, yes, that's too geekish.

I already implemented parts of the new query "language" in the v2 branch: https://github.com/mediathekview/mediathekviewweb/tree/v2/common/search-string-parser (parsers/range.ts, parsers/date.ts).

For v2 I have following in mind:

• datum:01.01.2020
• datum:<01.01 (automatically use current year)
• datum:>=01-01-2020
• datum:01.12.2019-15.01.2020

so the syntax would be datum:[<|>[=]]<day>[.<month>[.<year>]][-<day>[.<month>[.<year>]]].

Required regular expressions:

• ^(?:(>=|<=|<|>|=|)(?:([^-"<>=]+)|"(.+?)")|(?:([^-"<>=]+)|"(.+?)")-(?:([^-"<>=]+)|"(.+?)"))$
• ^(\d{1,2})[.-/]?(?:[.-/](\d{1,2})[.-/]?(?:[.-/](\d{2}|\d{4}))?)?$

Keep in mind that you would also have to adjust the query analyzer (or segmentizer, what I called it in v2) to allow the new syntax.

To be honest²: Neither do I want to introduce syntax which won't work in v2 anymore, nor do I want to backport v2 to v1. Instead you could help me implement stuff in v2 or give suggestions.

[marcusfey]

Ah, so this feature is going to get implemented, nice.

From what I see in v2 backporting this feature completely to v1 would really ... not be sensible.

I'll have a look at v2 - and try to get it up and running which took me some time for v1. Can't promise anything! To be honest I never fell in love with JS really.

When do you plan to release it? Anything in particular that needs attention?

[bagbag]

I can help you to get it running, if you want. You basically need mongodb and elasticsearch (/docker/dev -> docker-compose up), npm ci both in server and client, npm run build followed by npm start in server, and just npm start in client -> http://localhost:4200. But be warned: The client is at it's beginnings, so there's not much to see yet.

I don't like plain JS either, but TypeScript configured strict is awesome!

I wanted to release it like 2 years ago. Then I stopped multiple times (for whatever reasons), and when I came back.. the code smelled (really) bad, because I learned extremely much in the last months and years, so I restarted multiple times. But now I'm in a state, where I could just swap modules instead of a complete rewrite, if I really want to.