Currently, we have several types of repeats. In particular, we have a repeat date.
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repeat date YMD 20090331 20121212 1 # <start> <end> <increment> |
This allows allows loop over a set of dates using start/end and an increment in days.
Additionally, this repeat can take part in a trigger, where the sub-expression can use date arithmetic:
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trigger /suite/family:YMD + 1 > 20100101 # Here the sub expression ( /suite/family:YMD + 1) will use date arithmetic |
However, there can be occasions where we want an arbitrary list of dates. Currently the only way to implement this is with repeat enumerated.
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However this repeat can be any list of integers or even strings, and thus the trigger expressions does do NOT use date arithmetic.
This is where we have added a A new repeat. datelist has been added to address this.
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repeat datelist YMD 20130101 20130102 20130103 20200101 20190101 |
In python:
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task.add_repeat(RepeatDateList("YMD",[20130101, 20130102, 20130103, 20200101, 20190101 ])) |
A repeat datelist is a list of arbitrary dates, using YYYYMMDD format. It will use the same date arithmetic as a repeat date, in trigger expressions.