timelink 1.1.27

Timelink is an information system for person related information collected from historical sources.

Timelink is an information system for person related information collected from historical sources.

History

1.1.27 (2026-01-15)

Code style and quality improvements:

• Applied Black code formatter with 120 character line length across the entire codebase

• Reorganized imports following PEP 8 guidelines (standard library → third-party → local)

• Consolidated imports from the same modules for better maintainability

• Standardized string quotes to double quotes throughout

• Fixed various linting issues and improved code quality

• Added Python 3.12 to testing matrix

Documentation improvements:

• Updated and regenerated Sphinx API documentation with latest code

• Fixed documentation build warnings and improved Sphinx configuration

• Added comprehensive documentation for linter (flake8) and formatter (Black) configuration

• Fixed critical issue where documentation wasn’t showing the latest code versions

• Added git worktree workflow instructions (see CLAUDE.md)

• Updated branch management guidelines

Type hints and typing improvements:

• Improved type hints for better Pylance/VSCode compliance

• Fixed return types and typing expressions throughout codebase

• Enhanced type safety and IDE support

Network functionality:

• Fixed network generation and drawing issues (work in progress)

• Added comprehensive tests for network functions

• Improved session handling for network operations

Database improvements:

• Improved drop_db() function

• Enhanced session handling throughout the codebase

• Fixed DetachedInstanceError issues in database operations

• Fixed UTC current date and time handling

Testing:

• Updated test data and notebooks to work with latest changes

• Added comprehensive testing for Python 3.12 compatibility

• Expanded test coverage for various components

Development workflow:

• Migrated continuous integration from Travis CI to GitHub Actions

• Added Python 3.12 to tox test matrix

• Enhanced Kleio-server Docker container integration in CI

• Added local CI testing support with act tool

• Removed notebook tests for better CI performance

• Updated VSCode workspace configuration for better development experience

• Improved project template layouts

• Updated requirements and dependencies

Bug fixes:

• Fixed return type of REntity.same_as()

• Fixed usage of deprecated datetime.utcnow()

• Fixed DetachedInstanceError in database operations

• Fixed view usage in web database overview notebooks

• Fixed nfunctions view bug

• Fixed various UTC date and time handling issues

• Improved find_kleio_home() and utility functions

Other:

• Enhanced project template layouts

• Improved various docstrings and documentation

• Multiple test file updates and improvements

1.1.26 (2025-05-27)

• Fixes bug in processing of comments and original wording in pandas.entities_with_attribute()

• Fixes TimelinkDatabase.pperson when no session is provided

1.1.25 (2025-04-06)

• Fixes the multiple database access issue when running tests in a single session.

• Improves date formatting of timelink flexible dates

• Fixes issues in base mappings

• Add parameter to TimelinkDatabase to drop database if it exists, before creating new

1.1.24 (2025-03-16)

• Tries to fix test errors when tests are run in a single session (as in pytest). This cannot be fixed and is related to behaviour of sqlalchemy when acessing multiple database with the same metadata, that is dynamically changed by addind new dynamic classes and tables. The solution is to run tests in separate sessions to check for tests. A new target make test-loop run each test file separetly to check for real errors.

• While this is not fixed deploy via Travis does not work. Use make release.

1.1.23 (2025-03-16)

• Fixes some issues with the rendering of dates in kleio outputs

• Improves handling of extra_info in Entities

• Improves metadata handling when acessing multiple databases

1.1.21 (2025-03-15)

• Fixes issue 67

1.1.19 (2025-03-14)

• Extends extra_info content in Entities.

  • Now extra_info retains some of the SOM-POM Mapping information present in the import file. Extra_info is a dictionary with keys equal to the column names of the Entity (and the columns of its specialization tables). For each column there is a dictionary containing the Kleio element name that produced the information, the kleio element class, the Entity attribute name (which can be different from the name of the column, and the Entity column class. This allows for implementation of the to_kleio() method with results closer to the original source.

• Various fixes and improvements.

  • Better introspection methods in Entity class.

  • Better handling of database views.

  • Add force parameter to TimelinkDatabase.update_from_sources

  • Improved error handling in database operations, avoiding dangling sessions and locked tables.

  • Improved KGroup.get_element_by_name_or_class(element_spec) which is the way to extract from an imported group the data for a specific attribute in an ORM model.

  • Improve quoting of values with special characters when rendering kleio from database content.

  • Better usage of extra_info information when generating dataframes in the pandas module, namely using the name of the attribute instead of the name of the column in the database, when naming dataframe columns.

  • Improve Makefile, add profile command.

1.1.18 (2025-02-04)

• Fix rendering of dates in kleio outputs

• More improvment to migration of old databases.

• Add database version to information on TimelinkNotebook

• Various bug fixes.

1.1.17 (2025-01-20)

• Improve migration of old databases

• Various improvments in unit tests

1.1.16 (2025-01-08)

• Adds comment and original wording to entities_with_attribute

• Fixes problem with alembic and logging.

• Improves view generation across database migrations

• Improves testing fixtures

1.1.15 (2024-12-17)

Implements real-entities (#21)

This is a major refactor of the code, including changes to database structure and the way data is imported. The main changes are:

1. Entities now register the source of the data. This was necessary to detect easily cross source references, such as xsame_as that link occurrences in different sources refering to the same entity.

2. Migrations with Alembic are now used to update the database schema. This is a major change, and it is still experimental. From this version onwards changes to the database are handled through Alembic and authomatically triggered when a Timelink database is opened with TimelinkDatabase() class.

3. The import process was refactored to save the context of cross source references, and restoring them after reimport. See this note

4. Improvements to to_kleio() rendering, taking into account extra_info with comments and original wording.

1.1.14 (2024-09-23)

• Add model for RealEntiy, imports Real Entities (sameas and authority records).

  #22, #21 (only Real Entities)

• Improve rendering of extra_info in Kleio

• Removes Kleio-home from path when storing Kleio files #20

• Fixes problem with checking length of content for numeric fields #54

• Implements #53 facilitates access to ORM models using group names.

1.1.13 (2024-09-07)

• Improves import when tables duplicate columns of super class table, bug fixes.

• Fixes issue #49: now import propagates data to higher levels in table hierarchy, even if the data is not mapped in the lower levels.

• Fixes #44: get_person and get_entity now accept db and session as parameters

• Improves rendering of automatic ids.

1.1.12 (2024-09-05)

• Fixes issue #48: now import propagates data to higher levels in table

  hierarchy, even if the data is not mapped in the lower levels.

1.1.11 (2024-07-7)

• Implements Issue43 (adds groupname filtering to attribute_values)

• Fixes bug in pandas.styles due to deprecation of matplotlib.cm

• Fix a problem with the release process.

1.1.10 (2024-05-19)

• Fix a bug in entities_with_attribute() filter_by parameter handling.

1.1.9 (2024-05-03)

• fix bug with to_kleio() in models (bad identation)

1.1.8 (2024-05-02)

• Fix bug with export_to_kleio()

• Several minor bug fixes

1.1.7 (2024-04-28)

• Adds new eattributes views to easily access line, level, groupname of attributes

• pandas.entities_with_attribute returns attribute type,line,level and obs.

• Adds reference requirements.txt file to notebook tests

• Adds TimelinkDatabase.export_as_kleio(ids,filename

1.1.6 (2024-04-24)

Fixes regression in 1.1.5.

1.1.5 (2024-04-24)

• Comments and original wording are now stored in the “obs” field of entities, preceeded by “extra_info:”.

• If obs field contained explicit observations, these are preserved, and “extra_info:” is appended.

• A new method in the Entity class, get_extra_info() fetches the extra info as a dictionnary.

• Partially implements issue #9.

1.1.4 (2024-03-16)

Skips long imports in Travis CI

1.1.3 (2024-03-16)

Fixes a bug in update_from_sources() when import_with_errors was choosen

1.1.2 (2024-02-27)

Bug fixes #16 #24 #28

1.1.1 (2024-02-26)

• Includes basic templates, better integration with Travis CI

1.0.5 (2024-02-07)

• Fix minor bugs, better interaction with Docker and Jupyter notebooks.

1.0.4 (2024-02-06)

• Improved notebook integration, new tutorial and receipts notebooks in progress.

1.0.3 (2024-02-01)

• Use new deployment method with Travis

1.0.1 (2024-01-31)

• Fix travis build

1.0.0 (2024-01-30)

First release with Jupyter notebooks integration.

0.3.10 (2022-06-07)

• Fix to_kleio() in models: now generates quotes and triple quotes when necessary.

0.3.9 (2022-05-26)

• Fix missing import in kleio.groups

0.3.8 (2022-03-28)

• Fix bug with Session import in mhk.models.db

0.3.3 to 0.3.7 (2022-03-27)

• Fix build on travis with auto deployment

0.3.2 (2022-03-27)

• Fixes bug in package descrition preventing release in Pypi.

0.3.1 (2022-03-25)

• All core ORM models for MHK databases

• Dynamic generation of ORM models from XML files produced by the Kleio translator.

• Python definition of Kleio groups allows synonyms to be defined for localized elements.

• Import from XML file to MHK database

• CLI interface refactored with Typer

• Improved documentation

Developement related changes

• black can be used to format code

• More and better tests, handling of MHK installation or lack of in CI tests

0.3.0 (2022-03-05)

• Fixes bugs related to mapping legacy MHK databases

0.2.9 (2021-09-30)

• Update requirements and docs

0.2.10 (2022-03-30)

• Adds indexes to models

• Added sqlite test db

• Better testing, travis integration improved

• Replaced click with typer in cli interface

0.2.9 (2021-09-30)

• Update documentation.

0.2.8 (2021-09-30)

• Add to_json() method to KGroup, enabling Kleio to JSon serialization.

0.2.7 (2021-08-29)

• Auto build on Travis, with release to pypi

• Skeleton docs on readthedocs

0.1.0 (2021-07-09)

• First release on PyPI.