Merge pull request #416 from BarbUk/fix/tp_smapi

[etc/awesome.git] / helpers.lua

diff --git a/helpers.lua b/helpers.lua
index 7677768686d4358efc30fcb1cb384d6393e3bb8b..4d75f7b6067f7eb9d5430eeac9e5cedbd785e06c 100644 (file)
--- a/helpers.lua
+++ b/helpers.lua
@@ -1,17 +1,18 @@
-

 --[[
 --[[

-                                                      
-     Licensed under GNU General Public License v2     
-      * (c) 2013,      Luke Bonham                    
-      * (c) 2010-2012, Peter Hofmann                  
-      * (c) 2010,      Adrian C. <anrxc@sysphere.org> 
-                                                      
+
+     Licensed under GNU General Public License v2
+      * (c) 2013, Luca CPZ
+

 --]]
 
 --]]
 

-local awful  = require("awful")
-local debug  = require("debug")
-local pairs  = pairs
-local rawget = rawget
+local spawn      = require("awful.spawn")
+local timer      = require("gears.timer")
+local debug      = require("debug")
+local io         = { lines = io.lines,
+                     open  = io.open }
+local pairs      = pairs
+local rawget     = rawget
+local table      = { sort  = table.sort }

 
 -- Lain helper functions for internal use
 -- lain.helpers
 
 -- Lain helper functions for internal use
 -- lain.helpers


@@ -30,45 +31,103 @@ end
 
 -- }}}
 
 
 -- }}}
 

--- {{{
--- If lain.terminal is a string, e.g. "xterm", then "xterm -e " .. cmd is
--- run. But if lain.terminal is a function, then terminal(cmd) is run.
-
-function helpers.run_in_terminal(cmd)
-    if type(terminal) == "function"
-    then
-        terminal(cmd)
-    elseif type(terminal) == "string"
-    then
-        awful.util.spawn(terminal .. ' -e ' .. cmd)
+-- {{{ File operations
+
+-- check if the file exists and is readable
+function helpers.file_exists(path)
+    local file = io.open(path, "rb")
+    if file then file:close() end
+    return file ~= nil
+end
+
+-- get a table with all lines from a file
+function helpers.lines_from(path)
+    local lines = {}
+    for line in io.lines(path) do
+        lines[#lines + 1] = line

     end
     end

+    return lines

 end
 
 end
 

--- }}}
+-- get a table with all lines from a file matching regexp
+function helpers.lines_match(regexp, path)
+    local lines = {}
+    for line in io.lines(path) do
+        if string.match(line, regexp) then
+            lines[#lines + 1] = line
+        end
+    end
+    return lines
+end

 
 

--- {{{ Format units to one decimal point
+-- get first line of a file
+function helpers.first_line(path)
+    local file, first = io.open(path, "rb"), nil
+    if file then
+        first = file:read("*l")
+        file:close()
+    end
+    return first
+end

 
 

-function helpers.uformat(array, key, value, unit)
-    for u, v in pairs(unit) do
-        array["{"..key.."_"..u.."}"] = string.format("%.1f", value/v)
+-- get first non empty line from a file
+function helpers.first_nonempty_line(path)
+    for line in io.lines(path) do
+        if #line then return line end

     end
     end

-    return array
+    return nil

 end
 
 -- }}}
 
 end
 
 -- }}}
 

--- {{{ Read the first line of a file or return nil.
+-- {{{ Timer maker
+
+helpers.timer_table = {}

 
 

-function helpers.first_line(f)
-    local fp = io.open(f)
-    if not fp
-    then
-        return nil
+function helpers.newtimer(name, timeout, fun, nostart, stoppable)
+    if not name or #name == 0 then return end
+    name = (stoppable and name) or timeout
+    if not helpers.timer_table[name] then
+        helpers.timer_table[name] = timer({ timeout = timeout })
+        helpers.timer_table[name]:start()

     end
     end

+    helpers.timer_table[name]:connect_signal("timeout", fun)
+    if not nostart then
+        helpers.timer_table[name]:emit_signal("timeout")
+    end
+    return stoppable and helpers.timer_table[name]
+end
+
+-- }}}
+
+-- {{{ Pipe operations
+
+-- run a command and execute a function on its output (asynchronous pipe)
+-- @param cmd the input command
+-- @param callback function to execute on cmd output
+-- @return cmd PID
+function helpers.async(cmd, callback)
+    return spawn.easy_async(cmd,
+    function (stdout, stderr, reason, exit_code)
+        callback(stdout, exit_code)
+    end)
+end

 
 

-    local content = fp:read("*l")
-    fp:close()
-    return content
+-- like above, but call spawn.easy_async with a shell
+function helpers.async_with_shell(cmd, callback)
+    return spawn.easy_async_with_shell(cmd,
+    function (stdout, stderr, reason, exit_code)
+        callback(stdout, exit_code)
+    end)
+end
+
+-- run a command and execute a function on its output line by line
+function helpers.line_callback(cmd, callback)
+    return spawn.with_line_callback(cmd, {
+        stdout = function (line)
+            callback(line)
+        end,
+    })

 end
 
 -- }}}
 end
 
 -- }}}


@@ -87,4 +146,58 @@ end
 
 -- }}}
 
 
 -- }}}
 

+-- {{{ Misc
+
+-- check if an element exist on a table
+function helpers.element_in_table(element, tbl)
+    for _, i in pairs(tbl) do
+        if i == element then
+            return true
+        end
+    end
+    return false
+end
+
+-- iterate over table of records sorted by keys
+function helpers.spairs(t)
+    -- collect the keys
+    local keys = {}
+    for k in pairs(t) do keys[#keys+1] = k end
+
+    table.sort(keys)
+
+    -- return the iterator function
+    local i = 0
+    return function()
+        i = i + 1
+        if keys[i] then
+            return keys[i], t[keys[i]]
+        end
+    end
+end
+
+-- create the partition of singletons of a given set
+-- example: the trivial partition set of {a, b, c}, is {{a}, {b}, {c}}
+function helpers.trivial_partition_set(set)
+    local ss = {}
+    for _,e in pairs(set) do
+        ss[#ss+1] = {e}
+    end
+    return ss
+end
+
+-- creates the powerset of a given set
+function helpers.powerset(s)
+    if not s then return {} end
+    local t = {{}}
+    for i = 1, #s do
+        for j = 1, #t do
+            t[#t+1] = {s[i],unpack(t[j])}
+        end
+    end
+    return t
+end
+
+-- }}}
+

 return helpers
 return helpers