>From 7f48e10a37afc9b45daf76db7632d232bed0940b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?=E5=AE=8B=E6=96=87=E6=AD=A6?= <address@hidden>
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 17:35:13 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] utils: Add 'edit-expression'.

* guix/utils.scm (edit-expression): New procedure.
* tests/utils.scm (edit-expression): New test.
---
 guix/utils.scm  | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 tests/utils.scm | 13 +++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 53 insertions(+)

diff --git a/guix/utils.scm b/guix/utils.scm
index de54179..d82589c 100644
--- a/guix/utils.scm
+++ b/guix/utils.scm
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
   #:use-module (ice-9 regex)
   #:use-module (ice-9 match)
   #:use-module (ice-9 format)
+  #:use-module ((ice-9 iconv) #:select (bytevector->string))
   #:use-module (system foreign)
   #:export (bytevector->base16-string
             base16-string->bytevector
@@ -86,6 +87,7 @@
             split
             cache-directory
             readlink*
+            edit-expression
 
             filtered-port
             compressed-port
@@ -318,6 +320,44 @@ a list of command-line arguments passed to the compression program."
         (unless (every (compose zero? cdr waitpid) pids)
           (error "compressed-output-port failure" pids))))))
 
+(define* (edit-expression source-properties proc #:key (encoding "UTF-8"))
+  "Edit the expression specified by SOURCE-PROPERTIES using PROC, which should
+be a procedure that take the original expression in string and returns a new
+one.  ENCODING will be used to interpret all port I/O, it default to UTF-8.
+Return #t on success."
+  (with-fluids ((%default-port-encoding encoding))
+    (let* ((file   (assq-ref source-properties 'filename))
+           (line   (assq-ref source-properties 'line))
+           (column (assq-ref source-properties 'column))
+           (in     (open-input-file file))
+           ;; The start byte position of the expression.
+           (start  (begin (while (not (and (= line (port-line in))
+                                           (= column (port-column in))))
+                            (when (eof-object? (read-char in))
+                              (error (format #f "~a: end of file~%" in))))
+                          (ftell in)))
+           ;; The end byte position of the expression.
+           (end    (begin (read in) (ftell in))))
+      (seek in 0 SEEK_SET) ; read from the beginning of the file.
+      (let* ((pre-bv  (get-bytevector-n in start))
+             ;; The expression in string form.
+             (str     (bytevector->string
+                       (get-bytevector-n in (- end start))
+                       (port-encoding in)))
+             (post-bv (get-bytevector-all in))
+             (str*    (proc str)))
+        ;; Verify the edited expression is still a scheme expression.
+        (call-with-input-string str* read)
+        ;; Replace the file with edited expression.
+        (with-atomic-file-output file
+          (lambda (out)
+            (put-bytevector out pre-bv)
+            (display str* out)
+            ;; post-bv maybe the end-of-file object.
+            (when (not (eof-object? post-bv))
+              (put-bytevector out post-bv))
+            #t))))))
+
 
 ;;;
 ;;; Advisory file locking.
diff --git a/tests/utils.scm b/tests/utils.scm
index 6b77255..d0ee02a 100644
--- a/tests/utils.scm
+++ b/tests/utils.scm
@@ -333,6 +333,19 @@
                "This is a journey\r\nInto the sound\r\nA journey ...\n")))
     (get-string-all (canonical-newline-port port))))
 
+
+(test-equal "edit-expression"
+  "(display \"GNU Guix\")\n(newline)\n"
+  (begin
+    (call-with-output-file temp-file
+      (lambda (port)
+        (display "(display \"xiuG UNG\")\n(newline)\n" port)))
+    (edit-expression `((filename . ,temp-file)
+                       (line     . 0)
+                       (column   . 9))
+                     string-reverse)
+    (call-with-input-file temp-file get-string-all)))
+
 (test-end)
 
 (false-if-exception (delete-file temp-file))
-- 
2.6.3