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;;; sx-request.el --- requests and url manipulation  -*- lexical-binding: t; -*-

;; Copyright (C) 2014  Sean Allred

;; Author: Sean Allred <code@seanallred.com>

;; This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
;; the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
;; (at your option) any later version.

;; This program 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 this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

;;; Commentary:

;;

;;; Code:

(require 'url)
(require 'json)

(require 'sx)
(require 'sx-encoding)


;;; Variables

(defconst sx-request-api-key
  "0TE6s1tveCpP9K5r5JNDNQ(("
  "When passed, this key provides a higher request quota.")

(defconst sx-request-api-version
  "2.2"
  "The current version of the API.")

(defconst sx-request-api-root
  (format "http://api.stackexchange.com/%s/" sx-request-api-version)
  "The base URL to make requests from.")

(defcustom sx-request-silent-p
  t
  "When `t', requests default to being silent.")

(defcustom sx-request-cache-p
  t
  "Cache requests made to the StackExchange API.")

(defcustom sx-request-unzip-program
  "gunzip"
  "program used to unzip the response")

(defvar sx-request-remaining-api-requests
  nil
  "The number of API requests remaining according to the most
recent call.  Set by `sx-request-make'.")

(defcustom sx-request-remaining-api-requests-message-threshold
  50
  "After `sx-request-remaining-api-requests' drops below this
number, `sx-request-make' will begin printing out the
number of requests left every time it finishes a call.")


;;; Making Requests

(defun sx-request-make
    (method &optional args silent)
  (let ((url-automatic-caching sx-request-cache-p)
        (url-inhibit-uncompression t)
        (silent (or silent sx-request-silent-p))
        (call (sx-request-build
               method
               (cons (cons 'key sx-request-api-key)
                     args))))
    (unless silent (sx-message "Request: %S" call))
    (let ((response-buffer (cond
                            ((equal '(24 . 4) (cons emacs-major-version emacs-minor-version))
                             (url-retrieve-synchronously call silent))
                            (t (url-retrieve-synchronously call)))))
      (if (not response-buffer)
          (error "Something went wrong in `url-retrieve-synchronously'")
        (with-current-buffer response-buffer
          (let* ((data (progn
                         (goto-char (point-min))
                         (if (not (search-forward "\n\n" nil t))
                             (error "Response headers missing; response corrupt")
                           (delete-region (point-min) (point))
                           (buffer-string))))
                 (response-zipped-p (sx-encoding-gzipped-p data))
                 (data (if (not response-zipped-p) data
                         (shell-command-on-region
                          (point-min) (point-max)
                          sx-request-unzip-program
                          nil t)
                         (buffer-string)))
                 (response (with-demoted-errors "`json' error: %S"
                             (json-read-from-string data))))
            (when (and (not response) (string-equal data "{}"))
              (sx-message "Unable to parse response: %S" response)
              (error "Response could not be read by `json-read-from-string'"))
            ;; If we get here, the response is a valid data structure
            (sx-assoc-let response
              (when .error_id
                (error "Request failed: (%s) [%i %s] %S"
                       .method .error_id .error_name .error_message))
              (when (< (setq sx-request-remaining-api-requests
                             .quota_remaining)
                       sx-request-remaining-api-requests-message-threshold)
                (sx-message "%d API requests reamining"
                            sx-request-remaining-api-requests))
              :hi
              .items)))))))


;;; Support Functions

(defun sx-request-build (method keyword-arguments &optional kv-value-sep root)
  "Build the request string that will be used to process REQUEST
with the given KEYWORD-ARGUMENTS."
  (let ((base (concat (or root sx-request-api-root) method))
	(args (sx-request--build-keyword-arguments
               keyword-arguments kv-value-sep)))
    (if (string-equal "" args)
	base
      (concat base "?" args))))

(defun sx-request--build-keyword-arguments (alist &optional kv-value-sep)
  "Build a \"key=value&key=value&...\"-style string with the elements
of ALIST.  If any value in the alist is `nil', that pair will not
be included in the return.  If you wish to pass a notion of
false, use the symbol `false'.  Each element is processed with
`sx--thing-as-string'."
  (mapconcat
   (lambda (pair)
     (concat
      (sx--thing-as-string (car pair))
      "="
      (sx--thing-as-string (cdr pair) kv-value-sep)))
   (delq nil (mapcar
	      (lambda (pair)
		(when (cdr pair) pair))
	      alist))
   "&"))

(provide 'sx-request)
;;; sx-request.el ends here