Allow multiple IDFs for single instrument

[Anders Markvardsen]

Allow notation in IDF:

1) <instrument name="CSP"

valid-from="yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss" valid-to="yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss">

2) Any number of say CSP_Definition#####.xml to be shipped with Mantid, where ##### is any string of any length

3) Add test to check that none of the valid-from to valid-to overlap for a given instrument

4) upon loading a raw file or any of the nexus files grap the date and load the appropriate IDF

[Anders Markvardsen]

(In [7781]) Added valid-from and valid-to tags to all instrument as e.g.

<instrument name="ARCS" valid-from ="1900-01-31 23:59:59"

valid-to ="2100-01-31 23:59:59" last-modified="2010-10-12 08:54:07.279621">

Also added optional last-modified tag which takes the role of the previous optional date tag.

valid-from and valid-to will be compulsory tags and some code added to check this.

no wiki doc yet

removed unused WISH IDFs

re #1997

[Anders Markvardsen]

(In [7785]) Fix broken test associated with previous commit to this ticket

re #1997

[Anders Markvardsen]

(In [7820]) Some improved testing to test that valid-from and valid-to included in IDF. re #1997

[Anders Markvardsen]

(In [7865]) Added test which will fail if any IDF is added with overlapping valid-from/valid-to dates. Note this test not is not in its final state but will fail in the event of the above. re #1997

[Anders Markvardsen]

(In [7866]) Fix. re #1997

[Anders Markvardsen]

(In [7867]) Fix. re #1997

[Anders Markvardsen]

(In [7898]) More code towards having multiple IDFs for one instrument. re #1997

[Anders Markvardsen]

(In [7948]) Extend LoadInstrument to include the input properties:

InstrumentName

This means there will be two input properties which can be used to specify and IDF:

Filename InstrumentName

If Filename is specified then use that this filename. If not then it is required that an InstrumentName is specified. And an appropriate filename is created at runtime (search the Workspace's Run object for "startdate"/"starttime" and get IDF search directory from Config)

Modify all loaders (except LoadEmptyInstrument) to load inst using this InstrumentName property re #1997

[Anders Markvardsen]

(In [7949]) Fix broken test build. re #1997

[Anders Markvardsen]

(In [7951]) Inconsistancy in how date stored in startdata. Temp fix for this. re #1997

[Anders Markvardsen]

(In [7952]) It would be helpful if I committed the right files...... re #1997

[Anders Markvardsen]

(In [7960]) Temp Fix for parsing dates. re #1997

[Anders Markvardsen]

(In [7977]) Surprisingly painstaking to knock isis dates into iso 8601...

Introduced two now Workspace Run object properties:

run_end run_start

which stores date-time in iso 8601, for now this is done in LoadRawHelper and LoadISISNexus2.

wiki http://www.mantidproject.org/Run updated.

re #1997

[Russell Taylor]

(In [7981]) Fix linux. Re #1997.

[Anders Markvardsen]

(In [8004]) Updated wiki LoadInstrument and IDF and optional 'last-modified' tags in IDFs set to iso 8601. re #1997

[Anders Markvardsen]

(In [8006]) Noticed one more place where Run prop "startdate/enddate" not been sub with run_start/run_end. re #1997

[Anders Markvardsen]

Fixed, although to improved this further tickets created for next release #2046 and #2049

[Janik Zikovsky]

Good stuff, tried in with dummy TOPAZ instrument files. See #2074 for changes for SNS instruments.

[Stuart Campbell]

This ticket has been transferred to github issue ​2844