Add a flag to display 'Details' section when running report --from<> --to<>

[beevabeeva]

Hi @larose + contributors,

thank you for developing and sharing this great tool!

I skimmed through the source code to try and figure out how to add this feature myself.
Your python skills are way more pythonic than mine however, and I didn't get very far.
Edit: Completing #18 will probably take my Python skills to the next level - so thanks for that. I might be able to add this feature myself!

Here is what I wanted to do:

• adding a new -d (for details) argument
  utt report --from 2019-07-12 --to 2019-07-13 -d
• desired output:

------ Friday, Jul 12, 2019 (week 28) to Saturday, Jul 13, 2019 (week 28) ------

Working Time: 15h00
Break   Time: 0h00


----------------------------------- Projects -----------------------------------

(15h00) OS: Bring tutors up to speed, create google forms for  
new student repos, setting up course (Github website/repos  
etc + liasing with staff to organise things), Update website, write  
script to create new student repos, write script to delete old  
repos, write script to scrape and backup old homework repos

---------------------------------- Activities ----------------------------------

(1h00) OS: Bring tutors up to speed
(1h00) OS: create google forms for new student repos
(5h00) OS: setting up course (Github website/repos etc + liasing with staff to organise things)
(1h00) OS: Update website
(5h00) OS: write script to create new student repos
(1h00) OS: write script to delete old repos
(1h00) OS: write script to scrape and backup old homework repos


----------------------------------- Details ------------------------------------
2019-07-12:
(5h00) 12:00-17:00 OS: setting up course (Github website/repos etc + liasing with staff to organise things)

2019-07-13 :
(1h00) 12:00-13:00 OS: Update website
(1h00) 13:00-14:00 OS: Bring tutors up to speed
(1h00) 14:00-15:00 OS: write script to scrape and backup old homework repos
(1h00) 15:00-16:00 OS: write script to delete old repos
(1h00) 16:00-17:00 OS: create google forms for new student repos
(5h00) 17:00-22:00 OS: write script to create new student repos

The date separated activities aren't important. I guess having:

 ...
----------------------------------- Details ------------------------------------
(5h00) 12:00-17:00 OS: setting up course (Github website/repos etc + liasing with staff to organise things)
(1h00) 12:00-13:00 OS: Update website
(1h00) 13:00-14:00 OS: Bring tutors up to speed
(1h00) 14:00-15:00 OS: write script to scrape and backup old homework repos
(1h00) 15:00-16:00 OS: write script to delete old repos
(1h00) 16:00-17:00 OS: create google forms for new student repos
(5h00) 17:00-22:00 OS: write script to create new student repos

is fine too.

Mainly, this feature would allow one to see the actual date-time of the hours worked.

I could achieve this with a script that reads the contents of utt.log,
formats the outputt to look like the 'Details' section, and finally printing it after calling
utt report --from<> --to<>.

Something like this:

note this is just pseudo code

from os import system
import sys


# make a file that holds the desired output
output=open('output.txt','w+') 

#Get the time period as argument to script:
from_date = sys.argv[1]
to_date = sys.argv[2]

# Get time period (pseudo code)
period = to_date - from_date

#store the detailed activities here:
details = []

# Go through utt.log lookng for matching dates (psseudo code)
f='utt.log'
with open(f) as file_object:
    for line in file_object:
        if(line is within period):
        	details.append(line.rstrip()) # add activities occring in period


# run the report command as it is now:
run = "utt report --from "+from_date+" --to "+to_date
sys(run>>output.txt) # put the output in a textfile, we don't want it printing to terminal just yet...


# add the details that we got earlier, to the output file;
st = '----------------------------------- Details ------------------------------------\n'
output.write(st)
for d in details:
	output.write(d+"\n")


output.close()
# finally output everything to the terminal
sys("cat output.txt")

This is a hack though, and I'm quite sure you'd be able to do this far easier and more elegantly
knowing the source code structure 😋
Thanks again for this awesome tool.

[larose]

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