added dynamic time bounds for requests with no start or end time specified

app/adapters/db_adapter.rb

@@ -36,15 +36,20 @@ class DbAdapter
     }
   end
 
-  def schema
+  def schema(path='')
     # GET extended info stream list
     begin
-      resp = self.class.get("#{@url}/stream/list?extended=1")
+      if(path.empty?)
+        resp = self.class.get("#{@url}/stream/list?extended=1")
+      else
+        resp = self.class.get("#{@url}/stream/list?path=#{path}&extended=1")
+      end
       return nil unless resp.success?
     rescue
       return nil
     end
     # if the url exists but is not a nilm...
+
     return nil unless resp.parsed_response.respond_to?(:map)
     resp.parsed_response.map do |entry|
       metadata = if entry[0].match(UpdateStream.decimation_tag).nil?
@@ -71,6 +76,25 @@ class DbAdapter
     end
   end
 
+  # return latest info about the specified stream
+  # TODO: the HTTP API does not
+  # support wild cards so no decimations are returned
+  #  {
+  #    base_entry: ...,
+  #    decimation_entries: [...]
+  #  }
+  # this can be fed into UpdateStream service
+  def stream_info(stream)
+    entries = schema("#{stream.path}")
+    base_entry = entries
+      .select{|e| e[:path].match(UpdateStream.decimation_tag).nil?}
+      .first
+    {
+      base_entry: base_entry,
+      decimation_entries: entries - [base_entry]  #whatever is left over
+    }
+  end
+
   def set_folder_metadata(db_folder)
     _set_path_metadata("#{db_folder.path}/info",
                        __build_folder_metadata(db_folder))

app/controllers/db_elements_controller.rb

@@ -33,15 +33,6 @@ class DbElementsController < ApplicationController
     @start_time = @service.start_time
     @end_time = @service.end_time
 
-    # update the user's home view if a data view instance is provided
-    if params[:redux_json]!=nil
-      service = CreateDataView.new()
-      service.run({redux_json: params[:redux_json]},
-        nil, current_user, home_view=true)
-      unless service.success?
-        Rails.logger.warn("error creating home view for #{current_user.id}")
-      end
-    end
     render status: @service.success? ? :ok : :unprocessable_entity
   end
 end

app/services/data/load_element_data.rb

@@ -32,7 +32,23 @@ class LoadElementData
         req_streams << elem.db_stream
       end
     end
-    #2 compute start and end times if nil
+    #2 compute bounds by updating stream info if start/end are missing
+    if(start_time==nil || end_time==nil)
+      req_streams.map do |stream|
+        adapter = DbAdapter.new(stream.db.url)
+        entries = adapter.stream_info(stream)
+        service = UpdateStream.new(
+          stream,
+          entries[:base_entry],
+          entries[:decimation_entries]
+        )
+        unless service.run.success?
+          Rails.logger.warn("Error updating #{stream.name}: #{service.errors}")
+        end
+      end
+    end
+
+    #3 compute start and end times if nil
     streams_with_data = req_streams.select{|stream| stream.total_time > 0}
     if (start_time == nil || end_time == nil) && streams_with_data.empty?
       add_error("no time bounds for requested elements, refresh database?")
@@ -54,7 +70,7 @@ class LoadElementData
       add_error("invalid time bounds")
       return
     end
-    #2 pull data from streams
+    #4 pull data from streams
     combined_data = []
     req_streams.each do |stream|
       adapter = DbAdapter.new(stream.db.url)
@@ -73,7 +89,7 @@ class LoadElementData
         add_warning("unable to retrieve data for #{stream.path}")
       end
     end
-    #3 extract requested elements from the stream datasets
+    #5 extract requested elements from the stream datasets
     req_element_ids = elements.pluck(:id)
     @data = combined_data.select{|d| req_element_ids.include? d[:id] }
     return self

spec/adapters/db_adapter_spec.rb

@@ -16,6 +16,14 @@ describe DbAdapter do
     end
   end
 
+  it 'retrieves stream specific schema', :vcr do
+    adapter = DbAdapter.new(url)
+    entries = adapter.stream_info(create(:db_stream,path:"/tutorial/pump-prep"))
+    expect(entries[:base_entry][:path]).to eq "/tutorial/pump-prep"
+    #TODO: support decimation lookup, need HTTP API to process wild cards
+    expect(entries[:decimation_entries].length).to eq 0
+  end
+
   describe 'set_stream_metadata' do
     it 'updates config_key in metadata', :vcr do
       adapter = DbAdapter.new(url)
@@ -102,7 +110,7 @@ describe DbAdapter do
       end_time = 1361579612066315
       path = '/tutorial/pump-events'
       intervals = adapter.get_intervals(path,start_time, end_time)
-      expect(intervals.length).to eq(60) #20 intervals 
+      expect(intervals.length).to eq(60) #20 intervals
     end
   end
 

spec/services/data/load_element_data_spec.rb

@@ -92,4 +92,38 @@ RSpec.describe 'LoadElementData' do
       expect(@mock_stream_service.run_count).to eq 2
     end
   end
+
+  #NOTE: This is really quite a large integration test, it
+  #builds the full test nilm and then retrieves data from it.
+  #might be overkill but it really tests out the pipeline :)
+  #
+  describe 'when boundary times are not specified' do
+    let (:url) {'http://localhost:8080/nilmdb'}
+    let(:user) {create(:user)}
+
+    it 'updates the streams', :vcr do
+      adapter = DbAdapter.new(url)
+      service = CreateNilm.new
+      service.run(name: 'test', url: url, owner: user)
+      db = service.nilm.db
+      #request data from ac-power (15 Jun 2015 - 27 Jun 2015)
+      #                  pump-events (04 Feb 2013 - 23 Feb 2013)
+      elem1 = DbStream.find_by_path("/tutorial/ac-power").db_elements.first
+      elem2 = DbStream.find_by_path("/tutorial/pump-events").db_elements.first
+      #make sure the decimations are messed up by partial update
+      ndecims1 = elem1.db_stream.db_decimations.count
+      ndecims2 = elem2.db_stream.db_decimations.count
+      #artificially mess up time bounds to check if service updates the streams
+      elem1.db_stream.update(start_time: 0, end_time: 0)
+      elem2.db_stream.update(start_time: 0, end_time: 0)
+      service = LoadElementData.new
+      service.run([elem1,elem2], nil, nil)
+      #bounds taken from test nilm on vagrant instance
+      expect(service.start_time).to eq(1360017784000000)
+      expect(service.end_time).to eq(1435438182000001)
+      #make sure decimations are still here
+      expect(elem1.db_stream.reload.db_decimations.count).to eq ndecims1
+      expect(elem2.db_stream.reload.db_decimations.count).to eq ndecims2
+    end
+  end
 end