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/*
Copyright 2008 Flaptor (flaptor.com) 
    
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 
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*/

package com.flaptor.util;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.io.Writer;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Properties;
import java.util.Set;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;

import com.google.common.collect.Maps;
import com.google.common.collect.Sets;

/**
 * This class is implemented as a convenient way to store the application properties
 * and make them accessible. It periodically reads the configuration file and
 * updates the values of the variables. Warning: there can be only one config file
 * in an instance of the virtual machine.
 */
public class Config implements Serializable {

    /**
     * 
     */
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(Execute.whoAmI());

    // The configCache keeps an instance of the Config object for each config file.
    private static final Map<String, Config> configCache = new HashMap<String, Config>();
    private static final Map<String, Object> mutexCache = new HashMap<String, Object>();

    // Variables local to each instance
    private final String filename;
    private String filePath;
    private Properties prop;

    /**
     * Retrieves a Config representation of System.getProperties().
     *
     * It is like System.getProperties(), but it has the methods 
     * to extract properties casted as bools, ints, longs, arrays, etc.
     *
     */
    public static Config getSystemConfig() {
        Properties props = System.getProperties();
        return new Config("SYSTEM_PROPERTIES", new Properties(props));
    }

    /**
     * Get an empty config. Usefull for testing purposes, for example to create a 
     * config and add a list of fixed properties to it.
     */
    public static Config getEmptyConfig() {
        return new Config("PROPERTIES", new Properties());
    }

    /**
     * Create a named empty config. 
     */
    public static Config getEmptyConfig(String filename) {
        return new Config(filename, new Properties());
    }

    /**
     * Create a Config with given name and properties.
     */
    private Config(String name, Properties props) {
        this.prop = props;
        this.filename = name;
    }

    protected Config() {
        this.prop = null;
        this.filename = null;
    }

    /**
     * Initializes the class with the name of the properties file.
     * @param filename the properties file name
     * @throws IllegalStateException in case of an error accessing the filename for the first time (further calls are satisfied by the cache).
     *
     * @fixme non cached calls for non-default loaders
     */
    public static Config getConfig(String filename) {
        return getConfig(filename, Execute.myCallersClass().getClassLoader());
    }

    public static Config getConfig(String filename, ClassLoader loader) {
        if (filename == null) {
            System.err.println("Invalid filename = " + filename);
            System.exit(-1);
        }

        // FIXME hack to avoid conflicts when 2 different loadres
        // ask for the same config. Just parse and return 
        if (!loader.equals(Config.class.getClassLoader())) {
            return new Config(filename, loader);
        }

        // First try in the cache.
        Config config = null;
        Object configMutex = null;
        // Guarded by Config.class because the method is static.
        synchronized (Config.class) {
            configMutex = mutexCache.get(filename);
            if (configMutex == null) {
                configMutex = new Object();
                mutexCache.put(filename, configMutex);
            }
        }
        // Guarded by the mutext corresponding to the filename passed as argument.
        // Two simultaneous calls for different filenames won't contend, as each one is using its own mutex.
        // In the case the filename is the same, it doesn't matter which request will gain access to the mutex.
        // If the file already existed, both will have a mutex corresponding to the file.
        // If it is the first time, only one of the threads will be able to create the mutex, making it available for the oter thread.
        // After getting the mutext, any of them can update the cache indistinctly.  The other one will simply read it from the cache at its own time.
        synchronized (configMutex) {
            config = configCache.get(filename);
            if (config == null) {
                config = new Config(filename, loader);
                configCache.put(filename, config);
            }
        }
        return config;
    }

    /**
     * It constructs a new config object with the data found on the specified file.
     * @throws IllegalStateException in case of an error accessing the filename
     */
    private Config(String filename, ClassLoader loader) {
        this.filename = filename;
        this.filePath = getPathFromClasspath(filename, loader);
        prop = readFromClasspath(filename, loader);
        if (prop == null) {
            throw new IllegalStateException("Couldn't read resource " + filename);
        }
    }

    // Internal generic property getter
    protected synchronized String get(String key) {
        String p = prop.getProperty(key);
        if (null == p) {
            throw new IllegalStateException("Property " + key + " not found");
        }
        return p.trim();
    }

    /**
     * Sets a key-value pair. This overrides the value found in the
     * configuration file, if there was one. It's probably only useful to write
     * tests cases, so it's unnecessary to write and ad-hoc configuration file.
     * To avoid having forgotten lines in your code and hard to find bugs, it
     * writes a "warn" to the logger. 
     *
     */
    public synchronized Config set(String key, String value) {
        logger.warn("Forcing new key-value pair in the configuration. Key: " + key + ", value: " + value);
        prop.setProperty(key, value);
        return this;
    }

    /**
     * writes the config back to disk, ONLY modifying 
     * the file that has been used to create the config (not the imported ones),
     * but only adding the things that has changed in the overall config (with imports)
     * 
     * the idea is to mantain the structure of the original file
     *  
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public void saveToDisk() throws IOException {

        //get the old config
        Properties oldProps = readFromClasspath(filename, this.getClass().getClassLoader()); //TODO use the original classLoader?
        save(oldProps, new File(filePath));
    }

    /**
     * writes the properties to disk overwriting a file, 
     * as in saveToDisk, maintaining the structure of the dest file
     * and adding/modifying only changes 
     * 
     * @param propertiesDestFile the properties file to be modified
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public void modifyOnDisk(File propertiesDestFile) throws IOException {
        Properties oldProps = readFromStream(new FileInputStream(propertiesDestFile),
                this.getClass().getClassLoader());
        readFromClasspath(filename, this.getClass().getClassLoader()); //TODO use the original classLoader?
        save(oldProps, propertiesDestFile);
    }

    private void save(Properties oldProps, File destFile) throws IOException {
        Map<Object, Object> change = new HashMap<Object, Object>();

        for (Map.Entry<Object, Object> e : prop.entrySet()) {
            //if a new property is not the same as an old property
            if (!e.getValue().equals(oldProps.get(e.getKey()))) {
                change.put(e.getKey(), e.getValue());
            }
        }

        BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(destFile));
        List<String> lines = new ArrayList<String>();
        String accumulatedLine = "";
        while (true) {
            String line = reader.readLine();
            if (line == null) {
                if (accumulatedLine.length() > 0)
                    lines.add(accumulatedLine);
                break;
            }
            if (line.trim().endsWith("\\")) {
                if (accumulatedLine.length() > 0)
                    accumulatedLine += "\n";
                accumulatedLine += line;
            } else {
                if (accumulatedLine.length() > 0) {
                    line = accumulatedLine + "\n" + line;
                    accumulatedLine = "";
                }
                lines.add(line);
            }
        }
        reader.close();
        for (Map.Entry<Object, Object> e : change.entrySet()) {
            if (!replace(lines, (String) e.getKey(), e.getValue())) {
                lines.add("");
                lines.add(getLine((String) e.getKey(), e.getValue()));
            }
        }

        Writer writer = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(destFile));
        for (String line : lines) {
            writer.write(line + "\n");
        }
        writer.flush();
        writer.close();
    }

    /**
     * replaces a property in the list of lines 
     */
    private boolean replace(List<String> lines, String key, Object value) {
        for (int i = 0; i < lines.size(); ++i) {
            String line = lines.get(i).trim();
            int at = line.indexOf("=");
            if (at < 0)
                continue;
            String propertyName = line.substring(0, at).trim();
            if (propertyName.equals(key)) {
                lines.set(i, getLine(key, value));
                return true;
            }
        }
        return false;
    }

    /**
     * @return the property line corresponding to the key,value pair
     */
    private String getLine(String key, Object value) {
        String ret = key + "=";
        if (value instanceof String[]) {
            String[] val = (String[]) value;
            for (int i = 0; i < val.length; ++i) {
                ret += val[i];
                if (i < val.length - 1)
                    ret += ",";
            }
        } else {
            ret += value.toString();
        }
        return ret;
    }

    /**
     * Returns all the keys of the config's parameters. Using this method is possible to navigate the config.
     * 
     * @return a {@link Set} with the keys of the config's parameters.
     */
    public Set<String> getKeys() {
        return Collections.unmodifiableSet(prop.stringPropertyNames());
    }

    /**
     * Returns (as a string) the value corresponding to the variable name passed as argument.
     * @param key the name of the requested variable 
     * @return the string variable's value
     * @throws IllegalStateException if the requested property is not set
     */
    public String getString(String key) {
        return get(key);
    }

    /**
     * Returns an array of string, splitted by comma (,).
     * If the configuration contained an empty string, an array of 0 length is returned.
     */
    public String[] getStringArray(String key) {
        String raw = getString(key);
        if (raw.equals("")) {
            return new String[0];
        } else {
            return raw.split(",");
        }
    }

    /**
     * Returns (as an int) the value corresponding to the variable name passed as argument.
     * @param key the name of the requested variable 
     * @return the int variable's value
     * @throws IllegalStateException if the requested property is not set
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the property is not a valid int number
     */
    public int getInt(String key) {
        String value = get(key);
        try {
            return Integer.parseInt(value);
        } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("getInt: Invalid value for property " + key + "= " + value);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Returns an array of int, splitted by comma (,).
     * If the configuration contained an empty string, an array of 0 length is returned.
     */
    public int[] getIntArray(String key) {
        String[] strs = getStringArray(key);
        int[] res = new int[strs.length];
        for (int i = 0; i < res.length; i++) {
            try {
                res[i] = Integer.parseInt(strs[i]);
            } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
                throw new IllegalArgumentException(
                        "getIntArray: Invalid value for property " + key + "= " + strs[i] + "(i=" + i + ")");
            }
        }
        return res;
    }

    /**
     * Returns (as a long) the value corresponding to the variable name passed as argument.
     * @param key the name of the requested variable 
     * @return the long variable's value
     * @throws IllegalStateException if the requested property is not set
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the property is not a valid long number
     */
    public long getLong(String key) {
        String value = get(key);
        try {
            return Long.parseLong(value);
        } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("getLong: Invalid value for property " + key + "= " + value);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Returns (as a float) the value corresponding to the variable name passed as argument.
     * @param key the name of the requested variable 
     * @return the float variable's value
     * @throws IllegalStateException if the requested property is not set
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the property is not a valid float number
     */
    public float getFloat(String key) {
        String value = get(key);
        try {
            return Float.parseFloat(value);
        } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("getFloat: Invalid value for property " + key + "= " + value);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Returns (as a boolean) the value corresponding to the variable name passed as argument.
     * @param key the name of the requested variable 
     * @return the boolean variable's value
     * @throws IllegalStateException if the requested property is not set
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the property is not one of [ true, yes, 1, false, no, 0]
     */
    public boolean getBoolean(String key) {
        String value = get(key);
        if ("true".equalsIgnoreCase(value) || "yes".equalsIgnoreCase(value) || "1".equals(value)) {
            return true;
        } else if ("false".equalsIgnoreCase(value) || "no".equalsIgnoreCase(value) || "0".equals(value)) {
            return false;
        } else {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("getBoolean: Invalid value for property " + key + "= " + value);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Returns a List&lt;Pair&lt;String,String&gt;&gt;. The property value has this format
     * first1:last1,first2:last2,..,firstN:lastN
     *
     * so every pair in the list will have firstI as first, and lastI as last.
     */
    public List<Pair<String, String>> getPairList(String key) {
        // Get strings, separated by ",", using other Config method.
        String[] raw = getStringArray(key);
        List<Pair<String, String>> list = new ArrayList<Pair<String, String>>(raw.length);

        // In case there were no pairs, this will be skipped.
        for (String strPair : raw) {
            // Check that there is no empty key - value pair
            if ("".equals(strPair)) {
                String error = "getPairList: found empty key - value pair. Check for ', ,' in your '" + key
                        + "' definition.";
                logger.error(error);
                throw new IllegalArgumentException(error);
            }

            String[] parts = strPair.split(":");
            if (parts.length == 1) {
                logger.warn("getPairList: found token '" + parts[0] + "' without associated value.");
                list.add(new Pair<String, String>(parts[0], ""));
            } else if (parts.length == 2) {
                list.add(new Pair<String, String>(parts[0], parts[1]));
            } else {
                String error = "getPairList: found token '" + strPair + "'  that is not a pair. ignoring it.";
                logger.error(error);
                throw new IllegalArgumentException(error);
            }
        }
        return list;
    }

    private char normalizedTimeUnit(String unit) {
        if ("".equals(unit) || "ms".equals(unit))
            return 'l';
        if ("smhd".indexOf(unit.charAt(0)) >= 0)
            return unit.charAt(0);
        throw new IllegalArgumentException();
    }

    private long timeUnitMillis(String unit) {
        long v = 1;
        switch (normalizedTimeUnit(unit)) {
        case 'd':
            v *= 24;
        case 'h':
            v *= 60;
        case 'm':
            v *= 60;
        case 's':
            v *= 1000;
        }
        return v;
    }

    /**
     * Returns the value corresponding to the specified variable name, converted to a specified time unit.
     * The time unit may be "ms", "s", "m", "h" or "d", or words starting with the letters s, m, h or d 
     * (corresponding to seconds, minutes, hours and days).
     * The variable may also specify a time unit. If it doesn't, it is assumed to be milliseconds.
     * @param key the name of the requested variable 
     * @return the variable's value converted to milliseconds
     * @throws IllegalStateException if the requested property is not set
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the value unit is not one of [ ms, s, m, h, d]
     */
    public long getTimePeriod(String key, String targetUnit) throws IllegalArgumentException {
        String value = get(key);
        value = value.replaceFirst("(\\D)", " $1");
        String[] parts = value.split("\\s+");
        String sourceUnit = "ms";
        if (parts.length > 1) {
            sourceUnit = parts[1];
        }
        long time = 0;
        try {
            time = Long.parseLong(parts[0]);
        } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("getTime: Invalid number in property " + key + " = " + value);
        }
        try {
            time = time * timeUnitMillis(sourceUnit) / timeUnitMillis(targetUnit);
        } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("getTime: Invalid time unit in property " + key + " = " + value);
        }
        return time;
    }

    /**
     * Verifies if a property is set.
     * @param key the name of the property
     * @return true if the property is defined, false otherwise
     * <br>
     * Note: It doesn't matter if the property is defined in the defaults file or in the customized file.
     */
    public synchronized boolean isDefined(String key) {
        return (null != prop.getProperty(key));
    }

    private String getPathFromClasspath(String resourceName, ClassLoader loader) {
        URL url = loader.getResource(resourceName);
        if (url != null)
            return url.getPath();
        else
            return null;
    }

    private synchronized Properties readFromClasspath(String resourceName, ClassLoader loader) {

        InputStream is = loader.getResourceAsStream(resourceName);
        Properties p = null;
        if (null != is) {
            try {
                p = readFromStream(is, loader);
            } catch (IOException e) {
                logger.error("readFromClasspath: Couldn't read resource " + resourceName, e);
            }
        } else {
            logger.error("readFromClasspath: Couldn't read resource " + resourceName);
        }

        Execute.close(is);
        return p;
    }

    /**
     * Creates a config from a string. The string format is the same as a 
     * config/properties file.
     * @param cfg
     * @return
     */
    public static Config getConfigFromString(String cfg) {
        Config res = getEmptyConfig();
        ClassLoader loader = res.getClass().getClassLoader();
        InputStream is = new ByteArrayInputStream(cfg.getBytes());
        Properties p = null;
        try {
            p = res.readFromStream(is, loader);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        res.prop = p;
        Execute.close(is);
        return res;
    }

    private synchronized Properties readFromStream(InputStream is, ClassLoader loader) throws IOException {
        Properties p = new Properties();
        ExpandableInputStream eis = new ExpandableInputStream(is, loader);
        p.load(eis);
        return p;
    }

    // override toString so it is easier to parse.
    // Properties.toString is a comma-separated on liner, and it is not
    // so easy to parse if keys or values have commas.
    public String toString() {
        String properties = null;
        try {
            OutputStream os = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
            this.prop.store(os, this.filename);
            properties = os.toString();
            os.close();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            properties = prop.toString();
        }

        return properties;
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        String help = "Lists a config file.\nUsage:\tConfig <file> [<property>]";

        if (args.length != 1 && args.length != 2) {
            System.out.println(help);
            System.exit(-1);
        }

        // so parameter count is right
        try {
            Config config = Config.getConfig(args[0]);
            if (args.length == 1) {
                System.out.println(config);
            } else { // args.length == 2
                System.out.println(config.get(args[1]));
            }
        } catch (IllegalStateException e) {
            System.out.println(args[0]);
            System.out.println(e);
            System.exit(-1);
        }

    }

    public String getFilename() {
        return filename;
    }

    public Config prefix(String prefix) {
        return new PrefixedConfig(this, prefix);
    }

    public Map<String, String> asMap() {
        return Maps.fromProperties(prop);
    }

}