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#  This file is part of TALER
#  (C) 2016 INRIA
#
#  TALER is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
#  terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software
#  Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version.
#
#  TALER is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
#  WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR
#  A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.
#
#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
#  TALER; see the file COPYING.  If not, If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>
#
#  @author Florian Dold

"""
Access to GNUnet-style configuration for Taler.

Requires the taler-config utility from the
GNU Taler exchange to be available in $PATH
"""

import shutil
import subprocess

# FIXME: eventually this should use a python
# parser and not shell out to taler-config

cmd = "taler-config"


class TalerConfig:
    def __init__(self, filename=None):
        self.filename = filename

    def _check_prog(self):
        prog = shutil.which(cmd)
        if prog is None:
            raise Exception("taler-config command not found in $PATH")

    def _run(self, *args):
        p = subprocess.Popen([cmd] + list(args), stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
        (out, err) = p.communicate()
        r = p.wait()
        return r, out.decode('utf-8').rstrip('\n')

    def get_string(self, section, option):
        self._check_prog()
        args = ['-s', section, '-o', option]
        if self.filename is not None:
            args.append('-c')
            args.append(self.filename)
        r, v = self._run(*args)
        if r != 0:
            raise Exception("error running taler-config")
        return v

    def get_filename(self, section, option):
        self._check_prog()
        args = ['-f', '-s', section, '-o', option]
        if self.filename is not None:
            args.append('-c')
            args.append(self.filename)
        r, v = self._run(*args)
        if r != 0:
            raise Exception("error running taler-config")
        return v