add test filler-goal

[tijlleenders]

Test for filler-goal.

The idea is that when you have a big one-time thing of several hours - you might put a reservation of X hours on the calendar. Then as you think of more things - you add subGoals that can be independently achieved. If there is time left over in the parent goal after the specific subGoals have been achieved - that time also gets reserved on the calendar.

Another example would be a vacation day - where you have a few things you want to do - so you make specific subGoals for that - but the rest of the day is left open - but you still want the rest scheduled on the calendar as 'vacation day'.

[tijlleenders]

@kobe-reygel @thinkrapido Another failing test case someone can pick up.

[thinkrapido]

done by https://github.com/tijlleenders/ZinZen-scheduler/pull/447

[tijlleenders]

@thinkrapido I'm sorry - I didn't provide enough detail to make it clear what is required to solve this issue. Thanks for the work and solution provided. I'll see if I can build on that.

[moaz-mokhtar]

Hello @kobe-reygel @thinkrapido

I hope you are doing well.

I will work on this

[moaz-mokhtar]

I want make sure that I understand the issue to be resolved.

• I did run tests on branch tijl/-/add-filler-goal-test and found that filler-goal failed which showing different results from expected.
• What I understand that here we want to allow sub goal which exceed parent goal's deadline to be reserved in the calendar.
• I found PR #447 which seems related to filler-goal itself, I think I need to create new test case for this PR specifically if I'm not wrong!!!

[tijlleenders]

@moaz-mokhtar Why do you think the subGoal needs to go beyond the parent goal's deadline?

The subGoal is >>part of work Goal<< and as such the Activity it generates:

• should at least satisfy the time conatrainta of the parent.
• should be linked to the Budget which is also related to the Activity 'Work' generated by the parent Goal.

[moaz-mokhtar]

I did debug yesterday and would like to share below information.

• Both tests stable/default-budgets and stable/filler-goal doesn't generate tasks which have children in addition it is not validating that child is valid. But stable/default-budgets success because it is adjusted. I think it should generate task with Daily habits if I'm not wrong.

• I'm proposing a long-term solution to be applied when convenient. It is for set of rules that validating input goals:

  • System will not proceed when input goals not validated and will return error with related information
  • The start and deadline of a child's goal should not fall outside the start and deadline of its parent goal.
  • The budgeting budget_config of a child's goal should not fall outside the budgeting of its parent goal.
  • The filtering Filters of a child's goal should not fall outside the filtering of its parent goal.
  • The min_duration of a child's goal should not fall outside the duration, budgeting, or filtering of its parent goal.
  • Parent goal shouldn't allow child goal/s to take more duration that causing other child goals to fall outside it.

• Happy scenario solution which I will work on it is will consider input validated and child goals fall inside the parent's goal

• My proposal is:

  • pass parent_goal information when generating activities to adjust based on that as below algorithm:

    // goal.rs:42
    pub fn get_adj_start_deadline(&self, calendar: &Calendar, parent_goal: Option<Goal>) -> (NaiveDateTime, NaiveDateTime) {
    // if parent_goal.is_some -> means it is child goal, so do below:
    // adjust generated goals with respect to parent_goal timing constraints

  • For this stage it will be simple which will not apply previous validation for input goals.

[tijlleenders]

@moaz-mokhtar Please focus comments in this PR solely on the filler-goal test case.
If you think there is something wrong / to be improved in other test cases - please make a separate issue for that. Otherwise it will become very confusing very fast.

All I'm asking in this PR is a passing test case based on correctly generated Activities and output Tasks - while keeping input Goals immutable.

[tijlleenders]

@moaz-mokhtar There have been some improvements to main while this PR was outstanding.
Please resolve the merge conflicts, respecting the improvements in main.

[tijlleenders]

@moaz-mokhtar I think I merged correctly - but that resulted in the tests failing.
Please double-check and investigate.

[tijlleenders]

The approach of adjusting Activities is convoluted and hard to follow. It' better to generate filler Activities as a separate step.

Placing in two separate steps is also not desired, as it implicitly says Budget Activities are less important than simple Goal Activities - and they can't interact with each other to optimize placing.