Operation parse.date_array in plugin tabular v0.5.0

Create an array of date objects from an array of strings.

This module is very simplistic at the moment, more functionality and options will be added in the future.

At its core, this module uses the standard parser from the dateutil package to parse strings into dates. As this parser can't handle complex strings, the input strings can be pre-processed in the following ways:

• 'cut' non-relevant parts of the string (using 'min_index' & 'max_index' input/config options)
• remove matching tokens from the string, and replace them with a single whitespace (using the 'remove_tokens' option)

By default, if an input string can't be parsed this module will raise an exception. This can be prevented by setting this modules 'force_non_null' config option or input to 'False', in which case un-parsable strings will appear as 'NULL' value in the resulting array.

Author(s)	Markus Binsteiner (markus@frkl.io)
Tags	tabular
Operation type	custom_module

Inputs

Name	Description	Type	Required?	Default
array	The input array.	array	true	null
max_index	The maximum index until whic to parse the string(s).	integer	false	null
min_index	The minimum index from where to start parsing the string(s).	integer	false	null
remove_tokens	A list of tokens/characters to replace with a single white-space before parsing the input.	list	false	null
force_non_null	If set to 'True', raise an error if any of the strings in the array can't be parsed.	boolean	false	true

Outputs

Name	Description	Type	Required?	Default
date_array	The resulting array with items of a date data type.	array	true	null

Module configuration

Module parse.date_array

No configuration options set