Port openstudio-standards Informative Schedule Methods to C++

Enhancement Request

Add several methods to the Schedule object that report useful schedule information

Detailed Description

There are several methods in the extension gem and openstudio-standards that require gathering information about a schedule, such as the schedule runtime minimum and maximum values, the design day(s) minimum and maximum values, equivalent full load hours, and a vector of runtime hourly values.

A short list:

• Schedule runtime minimum value
• Schedule runtime maximum value
• Schedule summer design day minimum value
• Schedule summer design day maximum value
• Schedule winter design day minimum value
• Schedule winter design day maximum value
• Schedule runtime equivalent full-load hours
• Schedule values (hourly, or with an argument of 'hourly' or 'timestep')

Other fields welcome, but the above are the most common.

There are already methods in openstudio-standards that provide this functionality, so perhaps it isn't necessary in OpenStudio SDK. But there may be other developers who would make use of the fields in the OpenStudio SDK.

Possible Implementation

I suggest implementing this method as part of the base Schedule class, which will need to be defined for each kind of schedule child object.

Start with the Schedule base class and its schedule child objects, then review the existing implementations in the extension gem and openstudio-standards. Done means the listed runtime, design-day, equivalent-full-load-hour, and hourly or timestep value methods are available across the relevant Schedule types.