Add a date filter to GeneratePythonScript

[Dan Nixon]

Add a from and between field that timestamps and will return only algorithms where the start time is between those two timestamps.

This will allow extracting a script to recreate the actions taken in a specific part of a custom interface.

[Dan Nixon]

Added a date filter for HistoryView

and added to unit tests

Refs #10482

Changeset: 13ce0277a661cb75bddf2dfa7bf7d24eb553d740

[Dan Nixon]

Added filter properties to GeneratePythonScript algorithm

Refs #10482

Changeset: a4af130990ac71484842be0b6729345e1a093f18

[Dan Nixon]

Made time ranges inclusive.

Refs #10482

Changeset: 1723e5a46c299cbc31b70d4b7a3f83a4e27dd185

[Dan Nixon]

Added doc tests for GeneratePythonScript

Refs #10482

Changeset: 7af97f83a5397ec42c09b89263d09bd769e5ae95

[Dan Nixon]

Added more documentation to GeneratePythonScript

Refs #10482

Changeset: 845fd9be5dea6daa4a7c51d7a2260587771ead7d

[Dan Nixon]

To test:

• Ensure doc tests and unit tests pass
• Open a workspace from system tests
• Run some algorithms on it
• Open the GeneratePythonScript algorithm
• Enter yesterdays date for StartTimestamp (see property description for format)
• Run
• Note in result script only Load and any algorithms you executed are listed

[Martyn Gigg]

It looks like there is a slight bug in HistoryView::filterBetweenExecDate, which the Windows debug build has picked up: ​http://builds.mantidproject.org/view/Develop%20Builds/job/develop_clean_win7_debug/128/console.

The MSVC debugger says that line 185 is invalid as the iterator is not valid anymore. I think a way to avoid hitting this problem is to slightly change how the iteration is done by doing:

  for (auto it = m_historyItems.begin(); it != m_historyItems.end();)
  {
    Mantid::Kernel::DateAndTime algExecutionDate = it->getAlgorithmHistory()->executionDate();

    // If the algorithm is outside of the time range, remove it and keep iterating
    if(algExecutionDate < start || algExecutionDate > end)
    {
      it = m_historyItems.erase(it);
    }
    else ++it;
  }

so that you only increment the iterator if nothing was erased and use the iterator returned from .erase if something was erased.

[Dan Nixon]

Fix Windows debug build

Refs #10482

Changeset: af2488d178a124950edeaa26787c9eb018c23aee

[Harry Jeffery]

Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/feature/10482_date_filter_for_GeneratePythonScript'

Full changeset: ​c008136d546876794e2b398502ec5c84af449ca8

[Stuart Campbell]

This ticket has been transferred to github issue ​11324