Parsing dates should work.

bitshift/query/__init__.py

@@ -3,9 +3,13 @@ This subpackage contains code to parse search queries received from the
 frontend into trees that can be used by the database backend.
 """
 
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
 from shlex import split
 
-from .nodes import *  ## TODO
+from dateutil.parser import parse as parse_date
+
+from .nodes import (String, Regex, Text, Language, Author, Date, Symbol,
+                    BinaryOp, UnaryOp)
 from .tree import Tree
 from ..languages import LANGS
 
@@ -15,6 +19,7 @@ class QueryParseException(Exception):
     """Raised by parse_query() when a query is invalid."""
     pass
 
+
 class _QueryParser(object):
     """Wrapper class with methods to parse queries. Used as a singleton."""
 
@@ -31,28 +36,52 @@ class _QueryParser(object):
         }
 
     def _parse_language(self, term):
+        """Parse part of a query into a language node and return it."""
         ## TODO: look up language ID
         return Language(0)
 
     def _parse_author(self, term):
-        pass
+        """Parse part of a query into an author node and return it."""
+        return Author(self._parse_literal(term))
+
+    def _parse_date(self, term, type_):
+        """Parse part of a query into a date node and return it."""
+        if term.startswith(("before:", "b:")):
+            relation = Date.BEFORE
+            dtstr = term.split(":", 1)[1]
+        elif term.startswith(("after:", "a:")):
+            relation = Date.AFTER
+            dtstr = term.split(":", 1)[1]
+        else:
+            raise QueryParseException('Bad relation for date: "%s"' % term)
+        try:
+            dt = parse_date(dtstr)
+        except (TypeError, ValueError):
+            raise QueryParseException('Bad datetime for date: "%s"' % dtstr)
+        return Date(type_, relation, dt)
 
     def _parse_modified(self, term):
-        pass
+        """Parse part of a query into a date modified node and return it."""
+        return self._parse_date(term, Date.MODIFY)
 
     def _parse_created(self, term):
-        pass
+        """Parse part of a query into a date created node and return it."""
+        return self._parse_date(term, Date.CREATE)
 
     def _parse_symbol(self, term):
+        """Parse part of a query into a symbol node and return it."""
         pass
 
     def _parse_function(self, term):
+        """Parse part of a query into a function node and return it."""
         pass
 
     def _parse_class(self, term):
+        """Parse part of a query into a class node and return it."""
         pass
 
     def _parse_variable(self, term):
+        """Parse part of a query into a variable node and return it."""
         pass
 
     def _parse_literal(self, literal):

bitshift/query/nodes.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 from ..languages import LANGS
 
-__all__ = ["String", "Regex", "Text", "Language", "Date", "Author", "Symbol",
+__all__ = ["String", "Regex", "Text", "Language", "Author", "Date", "Symbol",
            "BinaryOp", "UnaryOp"]
 
 class _Node(object):
@@ -80,6 +80,19 @@ class Language(_Node):
         return "Language({0})".format(LANGS[self.lang])
 
 
+class Author(_Node):
+    """Represents a author node.
+
+    Searches in the author_name field (full-text search).
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, name):
+        self.name = name
+
+    def __repr__(self):
+        return "Author({0})".format(self.name)
+
+
 class Date(_Node):
     """Represents a date node.
 
@@ -108,19 +121,6 @@ class Date(_Node):
         return tm.format(types[self.type], relations[self.relation], self.date)
 
 
-class Author(_Node):
-    """Represents a author node.
-
-    Searches in the author_name field (full-text search).
-    """
-
-    def __init__(self, name):
-        self.name = name
-
-    def __repr__(self):
-        return "Author({0})".format(self.name)
-
-
 class Symbol(_Node):
     """Represents a symbol node.
 

setup.py

@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ setup(
     packages = find_packages(),
     install_requires = [
         "Flask>=0.10.1", "pygments>=1.6", "requests>=2.2.0",
-        "beautifulsoup4>=3.2.1", "oursql>=0.9.3.1", "mmh3>=2.3"],
+        "beautifulsoup4>=3.2.1", "oursql>=0.9.3.1", "mmh3>=2.3",
+        "python-dateutil>=2.2"],
     author = "Benjamin Attal, Ben Kurtovic, Severyn Kozak",
     license = "MIT",
     url = "https://github.com/earwig/bitshift"