From 6b105f41d22557c9a7d38b07e2c1a5638da9edc2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthias Beyer <mail@beyermatthias.de>
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 19:43:46 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add: ui::external::editor::edit_content()

---
 src/ui/external/editor.rs | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 57 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/ui/external/editor.rs b/src/ui/external/editor.rs
index 08ab6314..fb43895c 100644
--- a/src/ui/external/editor.rs
+++ b/src/ui/external/editor.rs
@@ -49,3 +49,60 @@ pub fn let_user_provide_content(rt: &Runtime) -> Option<String> {
         Some(contents)
     }).unwrap_or(None)
 }
+
+/**
+ * Edit some content in a temporary file. If anything failes within this routine, it returns the
+ * old content and false.
+ * If the editing succeeded, it returns the new content and true
+ */
+pub fn edit_content(rt: &Runtime, old_content: String) -> (String, bool) {
+    use std::io::Read;
+    use std::io::Write;
+    use std::fs::File;
+    use std::process::Command;
+    use std::process::exit;
+
+    let filepath = "/tmp/imag-tmp.md";
+    {
+        let mut file = match File::create(filepath) {
+            Ok(f) => f,
+            Err(e) => {
+                error!("Error creating file {}", filepath);
+                debug!("Error creating file at '{}', error = {}", filepath, e);
+                exit(1);
+            }
+        };
+
+        file.write(old_content.as_ref());
+    }
+    debug!("Ready with putting old content into the file");
+
+    let output = {
+        let mut cmd = rt.editor();
+        cmd.arg(filepath);
+        debug!("cmd = {:?}", cmd);
+        cmd.spawn()
+           .and_then(|child| child.wait_with_output())
+    };
+
+    let process_out = output.map_err(|e| {
+        error!("Editor call failed");
+        debug!("Editor call failed: {:?}", e);
+        return None as Option<String>;
+    }).unwrap();
+
+    if !process_out.status.success() {
+        error!("Editor call failed");
+        debug!("status = {:?}", process_out.status);
+        debug!("stdout = {:?}", String::from_utf8(process_out.stdout));
+        debug!("stderr = {:?}", String::from_utf8(process_out.stderr));
+        return (old_content, false);
+    }
+
+    let mut contents = String::new();
+    File::open(filepath).map(|mut file| {
+        file.read_to_string(&mut contents);
+        (contents, true)
+    }).unwrap_or((old_content, false))
+}
+