[attempt] test 500 dates with all locales, filtering into successful …

…parses

test 500 dates in 797 locales filtered down to 796 locales in 3.37s

gnucash/import-export/csv-imp/gnc-tokenizer-csv.hpp

@@ -59,4 +59,6 @@ class GncCsvTokenizer : public GncTokenizer
     std::string m_sep_str = ",";
 };
 
+void gnc_filter_locales (StrVec& candidate_locales, const StrVec dates);
+
 #endif

gnucash/import-export/csv-imp/gnc-tokenizer.cpp

@@ -125,3 +125,25 @@ GncTokenizer::get_tokens()
 {
     return m_tokenized_contents;
 }
+
+
+
+using StrVec = std::vector<std::string>;
+#include "gnc-datetime.hpp"
+
+void
+gnc_filter_locales (StrVec& candidate_locales, const StrVec dates)
+{
+    StrVec new_candidate_locales;
+    new_candidate_locales.reserve (candidate_locales.size());
+
+    for (const auto& date : dates)
+    {
+        new_candidate_locales.clear ();
+        for (const auto& locale : candidate_locales)
+            try { GncDate (date, locale); new_candidate_locales.push_back (locale); }
+            catch (const std::exception&) {};
+
+        std::swap (candidate_locales, new_candidate_locales);
+    }
+}

gnucash/import-export/csv-imp/test/test-tokenizer.cpp

@@ -245,7 +245,35 @@ static tokenize_fw_test_data fixed_width [] = {
                 { NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL } },
 };
 
+#include <ctime> // time_t
+#include "gnc-locale-utils.hpp"
+
+static void test_filter_locales ()
+{
+    std::vector<std::string> dates;
+
+    for (auto i = 0; i < 500; ++i)
+        dates.push_back ("09/22/2021");
+
+    auto locales = gnc_get_available_locales ();
+    std::cout << locales.size() << " locales available. Testing "
+              << dates.size() << " dates.\n";
+
+    auto start = clock();
+    gnc_filter_locales (locales, dates);
+    auto end = clock();
+
+    double duration_sec = double(end-start)/CLOCKS_PER_SEC;
+
+    std::cout << locales.size() << " locales left, checked in "
+              << duration_sec << " seconds:\n";
+    for (auto locale : locales)
+        std::cout << ' ' << locale;
+    std::cout << '\n';
+}
+
 TEST_F (GncTokenizerTest, tokenize_fw)
 {
     test_gnc_tokenize_helper (fixed_width);
+    test_filter_locales ();
 }

libgnucash/engine/gnc-datetime.cpp

@@ -552,10 +552,11 @@ locale_to_formatter_and_calendar (const std::string locale_str)
     if (!tuple)
     {
         auto locale = icu::Locale::createCanonical (locale_str.c_str());
-        std::shared_ptr<icu::DateFormat> formatter(icu::DateFormat::createDateInstance(icu::DateFormat::kDefault, locale));
+        std::shared_ptr<icu::DateFormat> formatter(icu::DateFormat::createDateInstance(icu::DateFormat::kShort, locale));
         if (formatter == nullptr)
             throw std::invalid_argument ("Cannot parse string");
 
+        formatter->setLenient (false);
         UErrorCode status = U_ZERO_ERROR;
         std::shared_ptr<icu::Calendar> calendar(icu::Calendar::createInstance(locale, status));
         if (U_FAILURE(status))
@@ -573,7 +574,7 @@ GncDateImpl::GncDateImpl(const std::string str, const std::string locale_str) :
     /* Temporarily initialized to today, will be used and adjusted in the code below */
     m_greg(boost::gregorian::day_clock::local_day())
 {
-    std::cout << locale_str << '|' << str << ": ";
+    // std::cout << locale_str << '|' << str << ": ";
 
     auto [formatter, calendar] = locale_to_formatter_and_calendar (locale_str);
     icu::UnicodeString input = icu::UnicodeString::fromUTF8(str);
@@ -582,7 +583,7 @@ GncDateImpl::GncDateImpl(const std::string str, const std::string locale_str) :
     UDate date = formatter->parse(input, parsePos);
     if (parsePos.getErrorIndex() != -1)
     {
-        std::cout << "cannot parse " << std::endl;
+        // std::cout << "cannot parse " << std::endl;
         throw std::invalid_argument ("Cannot parse string");
     }
 
@@ -598,7 +599,7 @@ GncDateImpl::GncDateImpl(const std::string str, const std::string locale_str) :
     if (U_FAILURE(status))
         throw std::invalid_argument ("Cannot parse string");
 
-    std::cout << day << '/' << month << '/' << year << std::endl;
+    // std::cout << day << '/' << month << '/' << year << std::endl;
     m_greg = Date(year, month, day);
 }