I'm trying tinydb with FastAPI, but i got stuck with dates, Is there a function for finding objects between two dates in TinyDB, i couldn't find any like Pymongo's $gt etc. , i tried something like this but didn't worked out.
class DateTimeSerializer(Serializer):
OBJ_CLASS = datetime # The class this serializer handles
def encode(self, obj):
return obj.strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S')
def decode(self, s):
return datetime.strptime(s, '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S')
serialization = SerializationMiddleware()
serialization.register_serializer(DateTimeSerializer(), 'TinyDate')
db = TinyDB("db.json", storage=serialization)
I created a middleware for it from tinydb-serialization but when i search like this
@app.get("/search")
async def date_get(date: Optional[str] = None,start_at: Optional[str] = None,
end_at: Optional[str] = None, query: Query = Depends()):
if start_at and end_at:
date_db.search((query.date.strptime("%Y/%m/%d") > datetime.strptime(start_at, "%Y/%m/%d")) & (query.date.strptime("%Y/%m/%d") < datetime.strptime(end_at, "%Y/%m/%d")))
Also this pattern throw another exception tinydb:Empty query was evaluated
Quick Summary:
key:value pairdatetime.datetime(2010, 1, 1, 12, 0)}If you save your dates in TinyDB as time since epoch using:
import datetime
datetime.datetime(year=2022, month=1, day=15).timestamp() # 1642204800.0
You can easily query your dates since you are just querying floats
import datetime
from tinydb import TinyDB, Query
db = TinyDB('db.json')
db.insert_multiple([
{
'id': 1,
'date': datetime.datetime( year=2022, month=1, day=5 ).timestamp()
},
{
'id': 2,
'date': datetime.datetime( year=2022, month=1, day=15 ).timestamp()
}
])
q = Query()
print(db.search(
(q.date < datetime.datetime( year=2022, month=1, day=10 ).timestamp())
&
(q.date > datetime.datetime( year=2022, month=1, day=4 ).timestamp())
))
# prints: [{'id': 1, 'date': 1641340800.0}]
Search query can be shortened to:
datetime.datetime( year=2022, month=1, day=4 ).timestamp() < q.date < datetime.datetime( year=2022, month=1, day=10 ).timestamp()