def request_content_by_date(self, oldestdatetime, newestdatetime=None, maxnumber=15):
"""Return a sequence of all ContentItems from the Service that fulfill the ContentRequest, newest first.
oldestdatetime: A time-like object (datetime, date, struct_time, or tuple). No item will be returned as old or
older.
newestdatedate: A time-like object. No item will be returned as new or newer. Defaults to now.
maxnumber: The maximum number of items to return.
"""
self.logger.info(str.format('Requesting content with oldest {0}, newest {1}, max {2}.', oldestdatetime,
newestdatetime, maxnumber))
oldestdt = taoutils.create_datetime(oldestdatetime )
newestdt = taoutils.create_datetime(newestdatetime or datetime.datetime.now())
result = taoutils.take(self.db.get_between(oldestdt, newestdt), maxnumber)
self.logger.info(str.format('Returning {0} items for request.', len(result)))
return result
def request_content_slice(self, startindex=0, number=20):
"""Returns at most 'number' items, starting from 'startindex', newest items first."""
self.logger.info(str.format('Requesting item slice of size {0} from index {1} .', number, startindex))
result = taoutils.take(self.db.get_slice(startindex), number)
self.logger.info(str.format('Returning {0} items.', len(result)))
return result
