Previous commits went back and forth a bit on whether the various APIs
should use bytes or strings, but bytes appears to be a better answer,
because actual data in streams will always be 7-bit ASCII or raw
binary. There's no reason to apply the performance penalty of
constantly converting between bytes and strings.
One drawback now is that lots of code now has to have "b" prefixes on
strings, especially in tests, which inflates this commit quite a bit.
Now nilmdb.client, nilmdb.server, nilmdb.cmdline, and nilmdb.utils
are each their own modules, and there is a little bit more of a
logical separation between them. Various changes scattered throughout
to fix naming (for example, nilmdb.nilmdb.NilmDBError is now
nilmdb.server.errors.NilmDBError).
Reduced usage of "from __future__ import absolute_import" as much
as possible. It's still needed for the functions in the nilmdb/server
directory to be able to import the nilmdb module rather than the
nilmdb.py script.
This should hopefully ease future packaging a bit.
There's some bug with the testing harness where placing e.g.
from du import du
in nilmdb/utils/__init__.py doesn't quite work -- sometimes the
module "du" replaces the function "du". Not exactly sure why;
we work around that by just renaming files so they don't match
the imported names directly.
Add "end" parameter to TimestamperRate, to force the file to end
before a specific time. Will be good for loading in old files and
knowing that things don't overlap.
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go away if it gets packaged in Debian etc.
Add nilmdb.timestamper classes
Start test_timestamper (needs work)
Number the functions in test_client so they run in the right order to
leave the database in a good state.
Fix some brokenness with module importing and namespaces
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