This commit add an extra parameter 'fill_temporal' to read_group which allows
the orm to add missing groups for date intervals. This is useful for charts.
Suppose that we are in a use case where data are grouped by a date fields
(typically months but it could be another interval) and displayed in a Bar Chart
or a Line Char.
Let's says a request has to group records by month for August, September
and ...December. If we don't changed anything, we would get a Bar Chart
looking like this :
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December follows directly after September, it can be unintuitive for the
user, so we change that. We add some fake records for each missing months
between the earliest and the lastest date of the result
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This commit is part of task #1835644
From this commit onwards, Date fields will return datetime.date objects and Datetime fields will return datetime.datetime objects, this implies a number of things that are clearly explained both in the ORM API for master.
This commit also introduces a number of helper functions for dates and datetimes that are exposed in tools.date_utils and fields.Date[time], explained in the documentation as well.
Task-ID: 47189
Francois Volral