From f506a356cec79336d516a4b5b0d1948bbce8c78b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Biehl <alexbiehl@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 09:24:56 +0200
Subject: Write meta.json when generating html output (#676)

---
 CHANGES.md                               |  2 ++
 haddock-api/haddock-api.cabal            |  1 +
 haddock-api/src/Haddock.hs               |  6 ++++--
 haddock-api/src/Haddock/Backends/Meta.hs | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 haddock.cabal                            |  1 +
 5 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 haddock-api/src/Haddock/Backends/Meta.hs

diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index f96ac325..3e3498c3 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
  * to be released
 
+ * Haddock now writes additional information about the documentation to `meta.json`
+
  * Fix renaming of type variables after specializing instance method signatures (#613)
 
  * Move markup related data types to haddock-library
diff --git a/haddock-api/haddock-api.cabal b/haddock-api/haddock-api.cabal
index d4132cea..9d83f54f 100644
--- a/haddock-api/haddock-api.cabal
+++ b/haddock-api/haddock-api.cabal
@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ library
     Haddock.Backends.Xhtml.Types
     Haddock.Backends.Xhtml.Utils
     Haddock.Backends.LaTeX
+    Haddock.Backends.Meta
     Haddock.Backends.HaddockDB
     Haddock.Backends.Hoogle
     Haddock.Backends.Hyperlinker
diff --git a/haddock-api/src/Haddock.hs b/haddock-api/src/Haddock.hs
index 554cb416..17951068 100644
--- a/haddock-api/src/Haddock.hs
+++ b/haddock-api/src/Haddock.hs
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ import Data.Version
 import Haddock.Backends.Xhtml
 import Haddock.Backends.Xhtml.Themes (getThemes)
 import Haddock.Backends.LaTeX
+import Haddock.Backends.Meta
 import Haddock.Backends.Hoogle
 import Haddock.Backends.Hyperlinker
 import Haddock.Interface
@@ -319,6 +320,7 @@ render dflags flags qual ifaces installedIfaces extSrcMap = do
                 opt_contents_url opt_index_url unicode qual
                 pretty
     copyHtmlBits odir libDir themes
+    writeHaddockMeta odir
 
   -- TODO: we throw away Meta for both Hoogle and LaTeX right now,
   -- might want to fix that if/when these two get some work on them
@@ -445,9 +447,9 @@ getHaddockLibDir flags =
             exists <- doesDirectoryExist p
             pure $ if exists then Just p else Nothing
 
-      dirs <- mapM check res_dirs  
+      dirs <- mapM check res_dirs
       case [p | Just p <- dirs] of
-        (p : _) -> return p 
+        (p : _) -> return p
         _       -> die "Haddock's resource directory does not exist!\n"
 #endif
     fs -> return (last fs)
diff --git a/haddock-api/src/Haddock/Backends/Meta.hs b/haddock-api/src/Haddock/Backends/Meta.hs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c62c1ae8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/haddock-api/src/Haddock/Backends/Meta.hs
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+module Haddock.Backends.Meta where
+
+import Haddock.Utils.Json
+import Haddock.Version
+
+import Data.ByteString.Builder (hPutBuilder)
+import System.FilePath ((</>))
+import System.IO (withFile, IOMode (WriteMode))
+
+-- | Writes a json encoded file containing additional
+-- information about the generated documentation. This
+-- is useful for external tools (e.g. hackage).
+writeHaddockMeta :: FilePath -> IO ()
+writeHaddockMeta odir = do
+  let
+    meta_json :: Value
+    meta_json = object [
+        "haddock_version" .= String projectVersion
+      ]
+
+  withFile (odir </> "meta.json") WriteMode $ \h ->
+    hPutBuilder h (encodeToBuilder meta_json)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/haddock.cabal b/haddock.cabal
index e6c6709b..51f71272 100644
--- a/haddock.cabal
+++ b/haddock.cabal
@@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ executable haddock
       Haddock.Backends.Xhtml.Types
       Haddock.Backends.Xhtml.Utils
       Haddock.Backends.LaTeX
+      Haddock.Backends.Meta
       Haddock.Backends.HaddockDB
       Haddock.Backends.Hoogle
       Haddock.Backends.Hyperlinker
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