evaluation of recurring events

This library covers the evaluation of recurring events with minute resolution and supports following types of recurring events:

• DayToDayInYear (e.g. from 27.06. 07:46h to 31.10. 14:37h)
• WeekdayToWeekDay (e.g. monday to tuesday)
• WeekDayInMonth (e.g. second tuesday in a month)

These temporal expressions can be combined in the following operations

• Difference (e.g. all working days without public holidays)
• Intersection
• Union (e.g. all public holidays during a year)

Based on the interpreter pattern it is possible to combine all of the above mentioned temporal expressions and operations.

Usage of temporal expressions

Default values for temporal expressions: The start hour and start minute is 0, the default values for the end hour is 23 ad the end minute is 59.

DayToDayInYear

This temporal expression covers day-to-day ranges in a year and supports date rollovers (e.g. 27.12. to 23.01.)

Different from what the name might suggest that temporal expression covers ranges it can be usd to cover public holidays In this case the start month and end month resp. start day and end day are the same.

Example:

The following example shows a temporal expression for the first christmas holiday (this is in Switzerland the 25th of december):

// first Christmas holiday
DayToDayInYear CHRISTMAS_HOLIADY_FIRST = new DayToDayInYear(Month.DECEMBER, Month.DECEMBER ,25,25); 

This temporal expression covers the easter holidays in Switzerland for the year 2019:

//Easter holidays
DayToDayInYear SWISS_EASTER_HOLIDAYS_2019 = new DayToDayInYear(Month.APRIL, Month.APRIL,19,22)); 

WeekDayToWeekDay

This temporal expression covers weekday-to-weekday ranges (e.g. monday to thursday) and supports weekday rollovers (e.g. friday to tuesday)

Example:

This example represents the time from monday, 00:00h to friday, 23:59h:

WeekDayToWeekDayRange workingDays  = new WeekDayToWeekDayRange(DayOfWeek.MONDAY, DayOfWeek.FRIDAY,0, 23);

Note that in the above example we do not use start minute and end minute in the constructor. In this case the default values will be used (0 for start minute resp. 59 for end minute)

WeekDayInMonth

This temporal expression is used to check for n-th weekday in a month, e.g. second tuesday in a month

Example:

WeekDayInMonth SECOND_TUESDAY_IN_MONTH = new WeekDayInMonth(DayOfWeek.TUESDAY, 2));

Usage of operations

Union

This operation can be used to combine temporal expression and/or operations

Example:

The following represents all fixed date public holidays in Switzerland (there might be some locally differing holidys)

Union holidays = new Union();
holidays.getElements().add(JANUARY_FIRST); // new years day
holidays.getElements().add(AUGUST_FIRST);  // national holiday
holidays.getElements().add(CHRISTMAS_HOLIADY_FIRST); // first christmas holidy
holidays.getElements().add(CHRISTMAS_HOLIADY_SECOND); // second christmas holiday

A date can be evaluated as following:

LocalDateTime thisIsNoPublicHoliday = LocalDateTime.of(2019, Month.APRIL, 1, 14, 53); //  1st of april, 14:53h
LocalDateTime nationalHoliday = LocalDateTime.of(2019, Month.AUGUST, 1, 14, 53); //  1st of august, 14:53h

holidays.includes(thisIsNoPublicHoliday); // this returns FALSE since this is no public holiday
holidays.includes(nationalHoliday); // this returns TRUE since this is the national holiday

Difference

This operation can be used to exclude temporal expressions from an other temporal expression. A sample usecase is to exclude public holidays from a time interval.

Example:

    WeekDayToWeekDayRange workingDays = new WeekDayToWeekDayRange(DayOfWeek.MONDAY, DayOfWeek.FRIDAY, 6, 19);
        Difference workNoWithHolidays = new Difference(workingDays, CH_PublicHolidays.ch_ch_holidays);

The above example represents a recurring event every weekday but not on swiss public holidays (CH_PublicHolidays.ch_ch_holidays).

Intersection

Example:

Intersection winterIsComing = new Intersection();
winterIsComing.add(new DayToDayInYear(Month.MARCH, Month.SEPTEMBER));
winterIsComing.add(new DayToDayInYear(Month.JULY, Month.DECEMBER));

LocalDateTime thisIswinter = LocalDateTime.of(2019, Month.FEBRUARY, 4, 14, 53);
assertFalse("Date should NOT match!", winterIsComing.includes(thisIswinter));

LocalDateTime thisIsNotWinter = LocalDateTime.of(2019, Month.AUGUST, 4, 14, 53);
assertTrue("Date should match!", winterIsComing.includes(thisIsNotWinter));

predefine values

References

This code is inspired by following readings:

• [Fowler] Fowler, M. https://www.martinfowler.com/apsupp/recurring.pdf