Summary

Adds three optional, AND-composable filter kwargs — element_type, name_pattern, level — to get_elements, get_element_names, and get_elements_dataframe. Translates to OData $filter server-side. Refactors get_elements_by_level and get_elements_filtered_by_wildcard to delegate to the new path (behavior preserved).

Motivation

Today TM1py can count elements by type (get_number_of_leaf_elements, get_number_of_consolidated_elements, etc.) but can't list them without pulling the entire dimension and filtering in Python, or hand-writing MDX. This closes the gap with a small, additive API.

# Before — pull everything, filter in Python:
all_elements = tm1.elements.get_elements(dim, hier)
numeric_leaves = [e for e in all_elements if e.element_type == Element.Types.NUMERIC]

# After:
numeric_leaves = tm1.elements.get_elements(dim, hier, element_type="numeric")

# Or compose all three:
tm1.elements.get_element_names(
    dim, hier,
    element_type=["numeric", "consolidated"],
    name_pattern="Region*",
    level=1,
)

API

element_type accepts Element.Types enum, str ('numeric'/'string'/'consolidated', case-insensitive), int (1/2/3), or an iterable of any of those (OR-combined).

name_pattern is a glob with * wildcard, case- and space-insensitive (matching the semantics of the existing get_elements_filtered_by_wildcard). Translates to startswith, endswith, contains, or eq depending on * placement. ? raises ValueError.

level is exact match on the hierarchy level (0 = leaf).

All three default to None — purely additive, no breaking changes.

Design notes worth flagging

1. Incidental fix in get_elements URL. The original get_elements URL used ?select=Name,Type (missing the $ prefix), which TM1's OData endpoint silently ignored — the response always carried the full element payload. This PR corrects it to ?$select=Name,Type. Element.from_dict handles UniqueName, Index, and Attributes via .get(..., None) so no existing caller breaks. Same latent bug exists at get_edges (line 706) but is out of scope for this PR.

2. element_type overrides skip_consolidations. In get_elements_dataframe, when element_type is explicitly set alongside skip_consolidations=True, element_type is authoritative. The two kwargs are not AND-combined — this is a deliberate design choice documented in the docstring. (Setting element_type=['numeric','consolidated'] while leaving skip_consolidations=True would otherwise be incoherent: you asked for consolidations but the default flag drops them.)

3. Empty-match dataframe schema. When the trio filter matches zero elements, get_elements_dataframe constructs an empty MDX set via Tm1FilterByLevel({Members}, 9999) rather than the bare {}. The bare empty set loses the dimension column in the downstream pd.merge, breaking the DataFrame schema for callers that index by attribute or level column. The 9999-level filter produces an empty result while preserving the full column schema. A regression test (test_dataframe_trio_empty_match_preserves_schema) guards this.

Test plan

• ~48 pure-function unit tests for the two new private helpers (_coerce_element_types, _build_elements_filter) in Tests/ElementService_filtering_helpers_test.py, covering translation, type coercion, glob-to-OData conversion, single-quote escaping, and every validation error path. No TM1 connection required.
• ~37 integration tests in Tests/ElementService_test.py::TestElementFiltering against a fixture dimension covering each kwarg alone, in combination, with case/space variations, quote-escaped names (O'Brien), and validation passthrough.
• Regression tests confirming get_elements_by_level and get_elements_filtered_by_wildcard produce identical output to master (snapshots committed under Tests/fixtures/element_filtering_snapshots/).
• Regression test confirming get_elements_dataframe produces an identical DataFrame to master when no trio kwargs are passed.

Total ~85 new tests. Verified against a live TM1 11.8.x server: all green, no regressions in the existing 115 TestElementService tests.

Backwards compatibility

Purely additive. All new kwargs default to None. No signatures removed, no return types changed, no error semantics changed for any existing path.

Files touched

• TM1py/Services/ElementService.py — two new private helpers, kwargs added to three public methods, two existing methods refactored to thin delegations.
• Tests/ElementService_filtering_helpers_test.py — new file, unit tests for the helpers.
• Tests/ElementService_test.py — new TestElementFiltering class.
• Tests/fixtures/element_filtering_snapshots/ — regression oracle snapshots (9 files).