Loading Earth Orientation Parameters from finals files

Orekit development
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Dear Orekit team,

Thank you for this wonderful library!
I would like to ask you a question over the class RapidDataAndPredictionColumnsLoader.
In particular I would like to know why the class loads only the Bulletin A part of the finals files. This is also specified by this sentence in the javadoc:

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I would have expected that, if the user requests data over an interval covered by the Bulletin B data, the parser would have taken those, ensuring higher accuracy in case of a posteriori simulations.

If it is confirmed that the current behavior is to load only Bulletin A data, would it be possible to extend the capability of the parser to account also for Bulletin B data? maybe as a feature request?

Many Thanks for your time and your reply

Kind Regards,
Leonardo

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Thanks for the kind words, it is really appreciated!

You are right, this design choice was an oversight.
Could you open an issue on the bug tracker requesting for a change?

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HI Luc,

many thanks you for your reply, here you can find the issue: https://gitlab.orekit.org/orekit/orekit/-/issues/722

Regards,
Leonardo