"""
view_functions.py - defines functions called by views to display the correct data
about files and paths.
"""
import os
from time import strftime, strptime, ctime
from siteconfig import siteconfig


def default_context():
    """
    default_context - returns the minimum info needed to render a template--the
    domain name (for the home directory), and the top site directories which
    make up the navbar
    """
    return {
        'domain': siteconfig.DOMAIN,
        'navbar': siteconfig.MAIN_SITE_DIRS,
    }


def file_last_modified(path):
    return ctime(os.stat(path).st_ctime)

def index_dir(path):
    """
    index_dir - Given a directory at `path`, list it's contents,
    and sort each item as a file or a directory or a special file.

    return - a tuple with the values:
            > a list of directories in `path`,
            > a list of files in `path`,
            > (if present), a list of external links to add to the index.html of the
            directory
            > (if present), a short description (string) of what the directory contains

    Lists are sorted alphabetically.

    *Special files include '.links' and '.description' the format of these
    files is unquoted CSV and text/html. Both are displayed on the index.html
    for the given `path`
    """
    dirs = []
    files = []
    links = []
    description = False
    contents = os.listdir(path)
    for obj in contents:
        if os.path.isfile(path + '/' + obj):
            if obj == siteconfig.LINKS_FILE:
                with open(path + '/' + obj) as f:
                    links = f.readlines()
            elif obj == siteconfig.DESC_FILE:
                description = True
            elif not obj.startswith('.'):
                files.append(obj)
        elif os.path.isdir(path + '/' + obj):
            if not obj.startswith('.'):
                dirs.append(obj)

    return sorted(dirs), sorted(files), sorted(links), description


def is_hidden_path(path):
    """
    Tests if the URI path requested by the user, has any hidden paths
    which should not be rendered
    """
    for d in path.split('/'):
        if d.startswith('.'):
            return True
    return False