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4 Licensed under GNU General Public License v2
5 * (c) 2013, Luke Bonham
9 local debug = require("debug")
11 local capi = { timer = (type(timer) == 'table' and timer or require ("gears.timer")) }
12 local io = { open = io.open,
17 -- Lain helper functions for internal use
21 helpers.lain_dir = debug.getinfo(1, 'S').source:match[[^@(.*/).*$]]
22 helpers.icons_dir = helpers.lain_dir .. 'icons/'
23 helpers.scripts_dir = helpers.lain_dir .. 'scripts/'
27 function helpers.wrequire(table, key)
28 local module = rawget(table, key)
29 return module or require(table._NAME .. '.' .. key)
34 -- {{{ File operations
36 -- see if the file exists and is readable
37 function helpers.file_exists(file)
38 local f = io.open(file)
47 -- get all lines from a file, returns an empty
48 -- list/table if the file does not exist
49 function helpers.lines_from(file)
50 if not helpers.file_exists(file) then return {} end
52 for line in io.lines(file) do
53 lines[#lines + 1] = line
58 -- get first line of a file, return nil if
59 -- the file does not exist
60 function helpers.first_line(file)
61 return helpers.lines_from(file)[1]
64 -- get first non empty line from a file,
65 -- returns nil otherwise
66 function helpers.first_nonempty_line(file)
67 for k,v in pairs(helpers.lines_from(file)) do
68 if #v then return v end
77 helpers.timer_table = {}
79 function helpers.newtimer(name, timeout, fun, nostart)
80 helpers.timer_table[name] = capi.timer({ timeout = timeout })
81 helpers.timer_table[name]:connect_signal("timeout", fun)
82 helpers.timer_table[name]:start()
84 helpers.timer_table[name]:emit_signal("timeout")
90 -- {{{ Pipe operations
92 -- read the full output of a pipe (command)
93 function helpers.read_pipe(cmd)
94 local f = assert(io.popen(cmd))
95 local output = f:read("*all")
104 helpers.map_table = {}
106 function helpers.set_map(element, value)
107 helpers.map_table[element] = value
110 function helpers.get_map(element)
111 return helpers.map_table[element]