#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#
# Library designed to write in config files data
# safely.
#
# Author  : Pierre-Elliott Bécue <becue@crans.org>
# License : GPLv3
# Date    : 30/05/2014

import tempfile
import shutil
import sys
import time

class ConfFile(object):
    """Class handling ConfigFiles

    """
    def __init__(self, filename):
        self._name = filename
        self._backup = None
        self._fd = None

    def __enter__(self):
        """This file is used in context manager

        In case of syntax "with ConfFile("blop") as troll,
        troll will bind on self

        """
        self.safe_open()
        return self

    def __exit__(self, etype, evalue, etraceback):
        """Closes file, and, if there is any traceback, restores
        the backup

        """
        self._fd.close()
        if etype:
            # In case of exception, cleans the mess.
            self.restore()

    def safe_open(self):
        """Open a file in writemode but backups it before.

        """
        self._backup = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile()
        try:
            shutil.copyfile(self._name, self._backup.name)
        except IOError:
            self._backup = None

        self._fd = open(self._name, 'w')

    def write(self, data):
        """Writes data into file

        """
        self._fd.write(data)

    def restore(self):
        """Restores the tempfile

        """
        if self._backup is not None:
            shutil.copyfile(self._backup.name, self._name)

    def header(self, comment="#"):
        myHeader = """********************************************************************************************
 This file was generated automatically using the software %s.

 You should not modify it directly if you don't know what you are doing.

 Date : %s
********************************************************************************************""" % (sys.argv[0].split("/")[-1], time.strftime("%d/%m/%Y - %H:%M:%S", time.localtime()))
        myHeader = comment + myHeader.replace("\n", "\n%s" % (comment,))
        myHeader += "\n\n"

        self.write(myHeader)