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# Time-stamp: "2001-06-21 23:09:33 MDT"

require 5;
package Locale::Maketext;
use strict;
use vars qw( @ISA $VERSION $MATCH_SUPERS $USING_LANGUAGE_TAGS
             $USE_LITERALS);
use Carp ();
use I18N::LangTags 0.21 ();

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------

BEGIN { unless(defined &DEBUG) { *DEBUG = sub () {0} } }
 # define the constant 'DEBUG' at compile-time

$VERSION = "1.03";
@ISA = ();

$MATCH_SUPERS = 1;
$USING_LANGUAGE_TAGS = 1;
 # Turning this off is somewhat of a security risk in that little or no
 # checking will be done on the legality of tokens passed to the
 # eval("use $module_name") in _try_use.  If you turn this off, you have
 # to do your own taint checking.

$USE_LITERALS = 1 unless defined $USE_LITERALS;
 # a hint for compiling bracket-notation things.

my %isa_scan = ();

###########################################################################

sub quant {
  my($handle, $num, @forms) = @_;

  return $num if @forms == 0; # what should this mean?
  return $forms[2] if @forms > 2 and $num == 0; # special zeroth case

  # Normal case:
  # Note that the formatting of $num is preserved.
  return( $handle->numf($num) . ' ' . $handle->numerate($num, @forms) );
   # Most human languages put the number phrase before the qualified phrase.
}


sub numerate {
 # return this lexical item in a form appropriate to this number
  my($handle, $num, @forms) = @_;
  my $s = ($num == 1);

  return '' unless @forms;
  if(@forms == 1) { # only the headword form specified
    return $s ? $forms[0] : ($forms[0] . 's'); # very cheap hack.
  } else { # sing and plural were specified
    return $s ? $forms[0] : $forms[1];
  }
}

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------

sub numf {
  my($handle, $num) = @_[0,1];
  if($num < 10_000_000_000 and $num > -10_000_000_000 and $num == int($num)) {
    $num += 0;  # Just use normal integer stringification.
         # Specifically, don't let %G turn ten million into 1E+007
  } else {
    $num = CORE::sprintf("%G", $num);
     # "CORE::" is there to avoid confusion with the above sub sprintf.
  }
  while( $num =~ s/^([-+]?\d+)(\d{3})/$1,$2/s ) {1}  # right from perlfaq5
   # The initial \d+ gobbles as many digits as it can, and then we
   #  backtrack so it un-eats the rightmost three, and then we
   #  insert the comma there.

  $num =~ tr<.,><,.> if ref($handle) and $handle->{'numf_comma'};
   # This is just a lame hack instead of using Number::Format
  return $num;
}

sub sprintf {
  no integer;
  my($handle, $format, @params) = @_;
  return CORE::sprintf($format, @params);
    # "CORE::" is there to avoid confusion with myself!
}

#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#

use integer; # vroom vroom... applies to the whole rest of the module

sub language_tag {
  my $it = ref($_[0]) || $_[0];
  return undef unless $it =~ m/([^':]+)(?:::)?$/s;
  $it = lc($1);
  $it =~ tr<_><->;
  return $it;
}

sub encoding {
  my $it = $_[0];
  return(
   (ref($it) && $it->{'encoding'})
   || "iso-8859-1"   # Latin-1
  );
} 

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------

sub fallback_languages { return('i-default', 'en', 'en-US') }

sub fallback_language_classes { return () }

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------

sub fail_with { # an actual attribute method!
  my($handle, @params) = @_;
  return unless ref($handle);
  $handle->{'fail'} = $params[0] if @params;
  return $handle->{'fail'};
}

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------

sub failure_handler_auto {
  # Meant to be used like:
  #  $handle->fail_with('failure_handler_auto')

  my($handle, $phrase, @params) = @_;
  $handle->{'failure_lex'} ||= {};
  my $lex = $handle->{'failure_lex'};

  my $value;
  $lex->{$phrase} ||= ($value = $handle->_compile($phrase));

  # Dumbly copied from sub maketext:
  {
    local $SIG{'__DIE__'};
    eval { $value = &$value($handle, @_) };
  }
  # If we make it here, there was an exception thrown in the
  #  call to $value, and so scream:
  if($@) {
    my $err = $@;
    # pretty up the error message
    $err =~ s<\s+at\s+\(eval\s+\d+\)\s+line\s+(\d+)\.?\n?>
             <\n in bracket code [compiled line $1],>s;
    #$err =~ s/\n?$/\n/s;
    Carp::croak "Error in maketexting \"$phrase\":\n$err as used";
    # Rather unexpected, but suppose that the sub tried calling
    # a method that didn't exist.
  } else {
    return $value;
  }
}

#==========================================================================

sub new {
  # Nothing fancy!
  my $class = ref($_[0]) || $_[0];
  my $handle = bless {}, $class;
  $handle->init;
  return $handle;
}

sub init { return } # no-op

###########################################################################

sub maketext {
  # Remember, this can fail.  Failure is controllable many ways.
  Carp::croak "maketext requires at least one parameter" unless @_ > 1;

  my($handle, $phrase) = splice(@_,0,2);

  # Look up the value:

  my $value;
  foreach my $h_r (
    @{  $isa_scan{ref($handle) || $handle} || $handle->_lex_refs  }
  ) {
    print "* Looking up \"$phrase\" in $h_r\n" if DEBUG;
    if(exists $h_r->{$phrase}) {
      print "  Found \"$phrase\" in $h_r\n" if DEBUG;
      unless(ref($value = $h_r->{$phrase})) {
        # Nonref means it's not yet compiled.  Compile and replace.
        $value = $h_r->{$phrase} = $handle->_compile($value);
      }
      last;
    } elsif($phrase !~ m/^_/s and $h_r->{'_AUTO'}) {
      # it's an auto lex, and this is an autoable key!
      print "  Automaking \"$phrase\" into $h_r\n" if DEBUG;
      
      $value = $h_r->{$phrase} = $handle->_compile($phrase);
      last;
    }
    print "  Not found in $h_r, nor automakable\n" if DEBUG > 1;
    # else keep looking
  }

  unless(defined($value)) {
    print "! Lookup of \"$phrase\" in/under ", ref($handle) || $handle,
      " fails.\n" if DEBUG;
    if(ref($handle) and $handle->{'fail'}) {
      print "WARNING0: maketext fails looking for <$phrase>\n" if DEBUG;
      my $fail;
      if(ref($fail = $handle->{'fail'}) eq 'CODE') { # it's a sub reference
        return &{$fail}($handle, $phrase, @_);
         # If it ever returns, it should return a good value.
      } else { # It's a method name
        return $handle->$fail($phrase, @_);
         # If it ever returns, it should return a good value.
      }
    } else {
      # All we know how to do is this;
      Carp::croak("maketext doesn't know how to say:\n$phrase\nas needed");
    }
  }

  return $$value if ref($value) eq 'SCALAR';
  return $value unless ref($value) eq 'CODE';
  
  {
    local $SIG{'__DIE__'};
    eval { $value = &$value($handle, @_) };
  }
  # If we make it here, there was an exception thrown in the
  #  call to $value, and so scream:
  if($@) {
    my $err = $@;
    # pretty up the error message
    $err =~ s<\s+at\s+\(eval\s+\d+\)\s+line\s+(\d+)\.?\n?>
             <\n in bracket code [compiled line $1],>s;
    #$err =~ s/\n?$/\n/s;
    Carp::croak "Error in maketexting \"$phrase\":\n$err as used";
    # Rather unexpected, but suppose that the sub tried calling
    # a method that didn't exist.
  } else {
    return $value;
  }
}

###########################################################################

sub get_handle {  # This is a constructor and, yes, it CAN FAIL.
  # Its class argument has to be the base class for the current
  # application's l10n files.
  my($base_class, @languages) = @_;
  $base_class = ref($base_class) || $base_class;
   # Complain if they use __PACKAGE__ as a project base class?

  unless(@languages) {  # Calling with no args is magical!  wooo, magic!
    if(length( $ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} || '' )) { # I'm a CGI
      my $in = $ENV{'HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'} || '';
        # supposedly that works under mod_perl, too.
      $in =~ s<\([\)]*\)><>g; # Kill parens'd things -- just a hack.
      @languages = &I18N::LangTags::extract_language_tags($in) if length $in;
        # ...which untaints, incidentally.
      
    } else { # Not running as a CGI: try to puzzle out from the environment
      if(length( $ENV{'LANG'} || '' )) {
	push @languages, split m/[,:]/, $ENV{'LANG'};
         # LANG can be only /one/ locale as far as I know, but what the hey.
      }
      if(length( $ENV{'LANGUAGE'} || '' )) {
	push @languages, split m/[,:]/, $ENV{'LANGUAGE'};
      }
      print "Noting ENV LANG ", join(',', @languages),"\n" if DEBUG;
      # Those are really locale IDs, but they get xlated a few lines down.
      
      if(&_try_use('Win32::Locale')) {
        # If we have that module installed...
        push @languages, Win32::Locale::get_language()
         if defined &Win32::Locale::get_language;
      }
    }
  }

  #------------------------------------------------------------------------
  print "Lgs1: ", map("<$_>", @languages), "\n" if DEBUG;

  if($USING_LANGUAGE_TAGS) {
    @languages = map &I18N::LangTags::locale2language_tag($_), @languages;
     # if it's a lg tag, fine, pass thru (untainted)
     # if it's a locale ID, try converting to a lg tag (untainted),
     # otherwise nix it.

    push @languages, map I18N::LangTags::super_languages($_), @languages
     if $MATCH_SUPERS;

    @languages =  map { $_, I18N::LangTags::alternate_language_tags($_) }
                      @languages;    # catch alternation

    push @languages, I18N::LangTags::panic_languages(@languages)
      if defined &I18N::LangTags::panic_languages;
    
    push @languages, $base_class->fallback_languages;
     # You are free to override fallback_languages to return empty-list!

    @languages =  # final bit of processing:
      map {
        my $it = $_;  # copy
        $it =~ tr<-A-Z><_a-z>; # lc, and turn - to _
        $it =~ tr<_a-z0-9><>cd;  # remove all but a-z0-9_
        $it;
      } @languages
    ;
  }
  print "Lgs2: ", map("<$_>", @languages), "\n" if DEBUG > 1;

  push @languages, $base_class->fallback_language_classes;
   # You are free to override that to return whatever.


  my %seen = ();
  foreach my $module_name ( map { $base_class . "::" . $_ }  @languages )
  {
    next unless length $module_name; # sanity
    next if $seen{$module_name}++        # Already been here, and it was no-go
            || !&_try_use($module_name); # Try to use() it, but can't it.
    return($module_name->new); # Make it!
  }

  return undef; # Fail!
}

###########################################################################
#
# This is where most people should stop reading.
#
###########################################################################

sub _compile {
  # This big scarp routine compiles an entry.
  # It returns either a coderef if there's brackety bits in this, or
  #  otherwise a ref to a scalar.
  
  my $target = ref($_[0]) || $_[0];
  
  my(@code);
  my(@c) = (''); # "chunks" -- scratch.
  my $call_count = 0;
  my $big_pile = '';
  {
    my $in_group = 0; # start out outside a group
    my($m, @params); # scratch
    
    while($_[1] =~  # Iterate over chunks.
     m<\G(
       [^\~\[\]]+  # non-~[] stuff
       |
       ~.       # ~[, ~], ~~, ~other
       |
       \[          # [ presumably opening a group
       |
       \]          # ] presumably closing a group
       |
       ~           # terminal ~ ?
       |
       $
     )>xgs
    ) {
      print "  \"$1\"\n" if DEBUG > 2;

      if($1 eq '[' or $1 eq '') {       # "[" or end
        # Whether this is "[" or end, force processing of any
        #  preceding literal.
        if($in_group) {
          if($1 eq '') {
            $target->_die_pointing($_[1], "Unterminated bracket group");
          } else {
            $target->_die_pointing($_[1], "You can't nest bracket groups");
          }
        } else {
          if($1 eq '') {
            print "   [end-string]\n" if DEBUG > 2;
          } else {
            $in_group = 1;
          }
          die "How come \@c is empty?? in <$_[1]>" unless @c; # sanity
          if(length $c[-1]) {
            # Now actually processing the preceding literal
            $big_pile .= $c[-1];
            if($USE_LITERALS and (
              (ord('A') == 65)
               ? $c[-1] !~ m<[^\x20-\x7E]>s
                  # ASCII very safe chars
               : $c[-1] !~ m/[^ !"\#\$%&'()*+,\-.\/0-9:;<=>?\@A-Z[\\\]^_`a-z{|}~\x07]/s
                  # EBCDIC very safe chars
            )) {
              # normal case -- all very safe chars
              $c[-1] =~ s/'/\\'/g;
              push @code, q{ '} . $c[-1] . "',\n";
              $c[-1] = ''; # reuse this slot
            } else {
              push @code, ' $c[' . $#c . "],\n";
              push @c, ''; # new chunk
            }
          }
           # else just ignore the empty string.
        }

      } elsif($1 eq ']') {  # "]"
        # close group -- go back in-band
        if($in_group) {
          $in_group = 0;
          
          print "   --Closing group [$c[-1]]\n" if DEBUG > 2;
          
          # And now process the group...
          
          if(!length($c[-1]) or $c[-1] =~ m/^\s+$/s) {
            DEBUG > 2 and print "   -- (Ignoring)\n";
            $c[-1] = ''; # reset out chink
            next;
          }
          
           #$c[-1] =~ s/^\s+//s;
           #$c[-1] =~ s/\s+$//s;
          ($m,@params) = split(",", $c[-1], -1);  # was /\s*,\s*/
          
          # A bit of a hack -- we've turned "~,"'s into DELs, so turn
          #  'em into real commas here.
          if (ord('A') == 65) { # ASCII, etc
            foreach($m, @params) { tr/\x7F/,/ } 
          } else {              # EBCDIC (1047, 0037, POSIX-BC)
            # Thanks to Peter Prymmer for the EBCDIC handling
            foreach($m, @params) { tr/\x07/,/ } 
          }
          
          # Special-case handling of some method names:
          if($m eq '_*' or $m =~ m<^_(-?\d+)$>s) {
            # Treat [_1,...] as [,_1,...], etc.
            unshift @params, $m;
            $m = '';
          } elsif($m eq '*') {
            $m = 'quant'; # "*" for "times": "4 cars" is 4 times "cars"
          } elsif($m eq '#') {
            $m = 'numf';  # "#" for "number": [#,_1] for "the number _1"
          }

          # Most common case: a simple, legal-looking method name
          if($m eq '') {
            # 0-length method name means to just interpolate:
            push @code, ' (';
          } elsif($m =~ m<^\w+(?:\:\:\w+)*$>s
            and $m !~ m<(?:^|\:)\d>s
             # exclude starting a (sub)package or symbol with a digit 
          ) {
            # Yes, it even supports the demented (and undocumented?)
            #  $obj->Foo::bar(...) syntax.
            $target->_die_pointing(
              $_[1], "Can't (yet?) use \"SUPER::\" in a bracket-group method",
              2 + length($c[-1])
            )
             if $m =~ m/^SUPER::/s;
              # Because for SUPER:: to work, we'd have to compile this into
              #  the right package, and that seems just not worth the bother,
              #  unless someone convinces me otherwise.
            
            push @code, ' $_[0]->' . $m . '(';
          } else {
            # TODO: implement something?  or just too icky to consider?
            $target->_die_pointing(
             $_[1],
             "Can't use \"$m\" as a method name in bracket group",
             2 + length($c[-1])
            );
          }
          
          pop @c; # we don't need that chunk anymore
          ++$call_count;
          
          foreach my $p (@params) {
            if($p eq '_*') {
              # Meaning: all parameters except $_[0]
              $code[-1] .= ' @_[1 .. $#_], ';
               # and yes, that does the right thing for all @_ < 3
            } elsif($p =~ m<^_(-?\d+)$>s) {
              # _3 meaning $_[3]
              $code[-1] .= '$_[' . (0 + $1) . '], ';
            } elsif($USE_LITERALS and (
              (ord('A') == 65)
               ? $p !~ m<[^\x20-\x7E]>s
                  # ASCII very safe chars
               : $p !~ m/[^ !"\#\$%&'()*+,\-.\/0-9:;<=>?\@A-Z[\\\]^_`a-z{|}~\x07]/s
                  # EBCDIC very safe chars            
            )) {
              # Normal case: a literal containing only safe characters
              $p =~ s/'/\\'/g;
              $code[-1] .= q{'} . $p . q{', };
            } else {
              # Stow it on the chunk-stack, and just refer to that.
              push @c, $p;
              push @code, ' $c[' . $#c . "], ";
            }
          }
          $code[-1] .= "),\n";

          push @c, '';
        } else {
          $target->_die_pointing($_[1], "Unbalanced ']'");
        }
        
      } elsif(substr($1,0,1) ne '~') {
        # it's stuff not containing "~" or "[" or "]"
        # i.e., a literal blob
        $c[-1] .= $1;
        
      } elsif($1 eq '~~') { # "~~"
        $c[-1] .= '~';
        
      } elsif($1 eq '~[') { # "~["
        $c[-1] .= '[';
        
      } elsif($1 eq '~]') { # "~]"
        $c[-1] .= ']';

      } elsif($1 eq '~,') { # "~,"
        if($in_group) {
          # This is a hack, based on the assumption that no-one will actually
          # want a DEL inside a bracket group.  Let's hope that's it's true.
          if (ord('A') == 65) { # ASCII etc
            $c[-1] .= "\x7F";
          } else {              # EBCDIC (cp 1047, 0037, POSIX-BC)
            $c[-1] .= "\x07";
          }
        } else {
          $c[-1] .= '~,';
        }
        
      } elsif($1 eq '~') { # possible only at string-end, it seems.
        $c[-1] .= '~';
        
      } else {
        # It's a "~X" where X is not a special character.
        # Consider it a literal ~ and X.
        $c[-1] .= $1;
      }
    }
  }

  if($call_count) {
    undef $big_pile; # Well, nevermind that.
  } else {
    # It's all literals!  Ahwell, that can happen.
    # So don't bother with the eval.  Return a SCALAR reference.
    return \$big_pile;
  }

  die "Last chunk isn't null??" if @c and length $c[-1]; # sanity
  print scalar(@c), " chunks under closure\n" if DEBUG;
  if(@code == 0) { # not possible?
    print "Empty code\n" if DEBUG;
    return \'';
  } elsif(@code > 1) { # most cases, presumably!
    unshift @code, "join '',\n";
  }
  unshift @code, "use strict; sub {\n";
  push @code, "}\n";

  print @code if DEBUG;
  my $sub = eval(join '', @code);
  die "$@ while evalling" . join('', @code) if $@; # Should be impossible.
  return $sub;
}

# - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

sub _die_pointing {
  # This is used by _compile to throw a fatal error
  my $target = shift; # class name
  # ...leaving $_[0] the error-causing text, and $_[1] the error message
  
  my $i = index($_[0], "\n");

  my $pointy;
  my $pos = pos($_[0]) - (defined($_[2]) ? $_[2] : 0) - 1;
  if($pos < 1) {
    $pointy = "^=== near there\n";
  } else { # we need to space over
    my $first_tab = index($_[0], "\t");
    if($pos > 2 and ( -1 == $first_tab  or  $first_tab > pos($_[0]))) {
      # No tabs, or the first tab is harmlessly after where we will point to,
      # AND we're far enough from the margin that we can draw a proper arrow.
      $pointy = ('=' x $pos) . "^ near there\n";
    } else {
      # tabs screw everything up!
      $pointy = substr($_[0],0,$pos);
      $pointy =~ tr/\t //cd;
       # make everything into whitespace, but preseving tabs
      $pointy .= "^=== near there\n";
    }
  }
  
  my $errmsg = "$_[1], in\:\n$_[0]";
  
  if($i == -1) {
    # No newline.
    $errmsg .= "\n" . $pointy;
  } elsif($i == (length($_[0]) - 1)  ) {
    # Already has a newline at end.
    $errmsg .= $pointy;
  } else {
    # don't bother with the pointy bit, I guess.
  }
  Carp::croak( "$errmsg via $target, as used" );
}

###########################################################################

my %tried = ();
  # memoization of whether we've used this module, or found it unusable.

sub _try_use {   # Basically a wrapper around "require Modulename"
  # "Many men have tried..."  "They tried and failed?"  "They tried and died."
  return $tried{$_[0]} if exists $tried{$_[0]};  # memoization

  my $module = $_[0];   # ASSUME sane module name!
  { no strict 'refs';
    return($tried{$module} = 1)
     if defined(%{$module . "::Lexicon"}) or defined(@{$module . "::ISA"});
    # weird case: we never use'd it, but there it is!
  }

  print " About to use $module ...\n" if DEBUG;
  {
    local $SIG{'__DIE__'};
    eval "require $module"; # used to be "use $module", but no point in that.
  }
  if($@) {
    print "Error using $module \: $@\n" if DEBUG > 1;
    return $tried{$module} = 0;
  } else {
    print " OK, $module is used\n" if DEBUG;
    return $tried{$module} = 1;
  }
}

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------

sub _lex_refs {  # report the lexicon references for this handle's class
  # returns an arrayREF!
  no strict 'refs';
  my $class = ref($_[0]) || $_[0];
  print "Lex refs lookup on $class\n" if DEBUG > 1;
  return $isa_scan{$class} if exists $isa_scan{$class};  # memoization!

  my @lex_refs;
  my $seen_r = ref($_[1]) ? $_[1] : {};

  if( defined( *{$class . '::Lexicon'}{'HASH'} )) {
    push @lex_refs, *{$class . '::Lexicon'}{'HASH'};
    print "%" . $class . "::Lexicon contains ",
         scalar(keys %{$class . '::Lexicon'}), " entries\n" if DEBUG;
  }

  # Implements depth(height?)-first recursive searching of superclasses.
  # In hindsight, I suppose I could have just used Class::ISA!
  foreach my $superclass (@{$class . "::ISA"}) {
    print " Super-class search into $superclass\n" if DEBUG;
    next if $seen_r->{$superclass}++;
    push @lex_refs, @{&_lex_refs($superclass, $seen_r)};  # call myself
  }

  $isa_scan{$class} = \@lex_refs; # save for next time
  return \@lex_refs;
}

sub clear_isa_scan { %isa_scan = (); return; } # end on a note of simplicity!

###########################################################################
1;