ZZSegmentor

ZZSegmentor is one of the main module in my timetracker app, CLOC.

It can help you with two main purpose:

1. timeframe
2. segmentation (based on hourly/daily/monthly unit)

I used this module to show average and total time spent on a timeframe and also, bar charts for segmented times based on a specific unit.

How does it work?

To understand the module, we need to understand the problem.

Edges

There are situations where user is tracking the time and it passes a unit, e.g. date changes to a new hour, day or month. When we use a simple if statement to show average and total time, side effects happens. the simplest code to get the total time in a timeframe is:

import ZZSegmentor

let items: [DateItem] = [...]

// items between startOfDay .... now
let end = Date()
let start = end.startOfDay()

let filteredItems = items.filter(\.start >=  start && \.end <= end)
let totalTime: TimeInterval = filteredItems.map(\.duration).reduce(0, +)

But this is not 100% accurate. Let me explain it with this timeline:

The above code will reomve first and last item because of the filter code and also we can't forget about filtering items. To solve this problem ZZSegmentor first finds edges and then it just cosiders intersections if needed.

import ZZSegmentor

let items: [DateItem] = [...]

// items between startOfDay .... now
let end = Date()
let start = end.startOfDay()

let segmentor = ZZSegmentor(items: items, start: start, end: end)
let totalTime = segmentor.totalTime
let accurateItemsInTheBounds = segmentor.itemsInTimeframe

To demonstrate what just happened using ZZSegmentor:

Segments

There is a special bar chart on the statics page of my app which shows total time for a specific unit, e.g. total time spent daily in October. Apple has been provided DateInterval that works perfect with intervals and intersections. But loop through intervals based on units is not as easy as using it itself. ZZSegmentor makes it easy to do.

Consider we have some datas for only 1 to 3 October and the module wants to segment them day by day. Again, we have edges and also looping through the desired unit. (in this image the iterator is on 2 OCT)

import ZZSegmentor

let items: [DateItem] = [...]

// items between startOfDay .... now
let end = Date()
let start = end.startOfDay()

let segmentor = ZZSegmentor(items: items, start: start, end: end)
segmentor.update(unit: .daily)
let segmentes = segmentor.getSegments()
/*
 it prints [
DateUnitShare(key: 1, value: totalTimeOf1OCT)
DateUnitShare(key: 2, value: totalTimeOf2OCT)
DateUnitShare(key: 3, value: totalTimeOf3OCT)
]
*/

This method getSegments() also accepts a Boolean parameter called allUnits which will add all shares even if it is not in the desired bounds, so for the above code it will print out the first tree DateUnitShare and the rest of share items with value 0 to the end of month.

To-Do

• 100% test coverage
• Currently DateUnit's range is using constanst, e.g. .daily is always 1..<31 which is wrong
• Daylight saving failure
• iOS App example with timeline preview like images used in the README

License

ZZSegmentor is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.