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-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- |
-- Module      :  XMonad.Util.Run
-- Copyright   :  (C) 2007 Spencer Janssen, Andrea Rossato, glasser@mit.edu
-- License     :  BSD-style (see LICENSE)
--
-- Maintainer  :  Christian Thiemann <mail@christian-thiemann.de>
-- Stability   :  unstable
-- Portability :  unportable
--
-- This modules provides several commands to run an external process.
-- It is composed of functions formerly defined in "XMonad.Util.Dmenu" (by
-- Spencer Janssen), "XMonad.Util.Dzen" (by glasser\@mit.edu) and
-- XMonad.Util.RunInXTerm (by Andrea Rossato).
--
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

module XMonad.Util.Run (
                          -- * Usage
                          -- $usage
                          runProcessWithInput,
                          runProcessWithInputAndWait,
                          safeSpawn,
                          unsafeSpawn,
                          runInTerm,
                          safeRunInTerm,
                          seconds,
                          spawnPipe
                         ) where

import System.Posix.IO
import System.Posix.Process (executeFile)
import Control.Concurrent (threadDelay)
import Control.Exception (try)
import System.IO
import System.Process (runInteractiveProcess, waitForProcess)
import XMonad
import Control.Monad

-- $usage
-- For an example usage of 'runInTerm' see "XMonad.Prompt.Ssh"
--
-- For an example usage of 'runProcessWithInput' see
-- "XMonad.Prompt.DirectoryPrompt", "XMonad.Util.Dmenu",
-- "XMonad.Prompt.ShellPrompt", "XMonad.Actions.WmiiActions",
-- "XMonad.Prompt.WorkspaceDir"
--
-- For an example usage of 'runProcessWithInputAndWait' see
-- "XMonad.Util.Dzen"

-- | Return output if the command succeeded, otherwise return @()@.
-- This corresponds to dmenu's notion of exit code 1 for a cancelled invocation.
runProcessWithInput :: FilePath -> [String] -> String -> IO String
runProcessWithInput cmd args input = do
    (pin, pout, perr, ph) <- runInteractiveProcess cmd args Nothing Nothing
    hPutStr pin input
    hClose pin
    output <- hGetContents pout
    when (output == output) $ return ()
    hClose pout
    hClose perr
    waitForProcess ph
    return output

-- | Wait is in µs (microseconds)
runProcessWithInputAndWait :: FilePath -> [String] -> String -> Int -> IO ()
runProcessWithInputAndWait cmd args input timeout = do
    doubleFork $ do
        (pin, pout, perr, ph) <- runInteractiveProcess cmd args Nothing Nothing
        hPutStr pin input
        hFlush pin
        threadDelay timeout
        hClose pin
        hClose pout
        hClose perr
        waitForProcess ph
        return ()

-- | Multiplies by ONE MILLION, for use with
-- 'runProcessWithInputAndWait'.
--
-- Use like:
--
-- > (5.5 `seconds`)
seconds :: Rational -> Int
seconds = fromEnum . (* 1000000)

-- | safeSpawn bypasses XMonad's 'spawn' command, because 'spawn' passes
-- strings to \/bin\/sh to be interpreted as shell commands. This is
-- often what one wants, but in many cases the passed string will contain
-- shell metacharacters which one does not want interpreted as such (URLs
-- particularly often have shell metacharacters like \'&\' in them). In
-- this case, it is more useful to specify a file or program to be run
-- and a string to give it as an argument so as to bypass the shell and
-- be certain the program will receive the string as you typed it.
-- unsafeSpawn is an alias for XMonad's 'spawn', to remind one that use
-- of it can be, well, unsafe.
-- Examples:
--
-- >     , ((modMask, xK_Print), unsafeSpawn "import -window root png:$HOME/xwd-$(date +%s)$$.png")
-- >     , ((modMask, xK_d    ), safeSpawn "firefox" "")
--
-- Note that the unsafeSpawn example must be unsafe and not safe because
-- it makes use of shell interpretation by relying on @$HOME@ and
-- interpolation, whereas the safeSpawn example can be safe because
-- Firefox doesn't need any arguments if it is just being started.
safeSpawn :: MonadIO m => FilePath -> String -> m ()
safeSpawn prog arg = liftIO (try (doubleFork $ executeFile prog True [arg] Nothing) >> return ())

unsafeSpawn :: MonadIO m => String -> m ()
unsafeSpawn = spawn

-- | Run a given program in the preferred terminal emulator. This uses
-- 'safeSpawn'.
safeRunInTerm :: String -> String -> X ()
safeRunInTerm options command = asks (terminal . config) >>= \t -> safeSpawn t (options ++ " -e " ++ command)

unsafeRunInTerm, runInTerm :: String -> String -> X ()
unsafeRunInTerm options command = asks (terminal . config) >>= \t -> unsafeSpawn $ t ++ " " ++ options ++ " -e " ++ command
runInTerm = unsafeRunInTerm

-- | Launch an external application and return a 'Handle' to its standard input.
spawnPipe :: String -> IO Handle
spawnPipe x = do
    (rd, wr) <- createPipe
    setFdOption wr CloseOnExec True
    h <- fdToHandle wr
    hSetBuffering h LineBuffering
    doubleFork $ do
        dupTo rd stdInput
        executeFile "/bin/sh" False ["-c", x] Nothing
    return h