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3 Responses to “Remind”

1. Bill Wood said

   July 5, 2019 at 12:21 AM

   Rust version – good exercise! I learned a lot about Rust dates, sorting, file I/O, error handling…

   use itertools::Itertools;
   use chrono::prelude::*;
   
   fn main() -> Result<(), String> {
       let mut r = Reminders::new(".reminders")?;
       let args = std::env::args().skip(1);
       if args.len() == 0 {
           print!("{}", r.stringify(7));
       } else {
           r.add(r.parse_item(args)?);
       }
       r.close()
   }
   
   #[derive(Debug)]
   struct Reminders {
       path: std::path::PathBuf,
       today: NaiveDate,
       reminder_items: Vec<ReminderItem>,
   }
   
   #[derive(Debug)]
   struct ReminderItem {
       date: NaiveDate,
       recurring: bool,
       message: String,
   }
   
   impl Reminders {
       fn new(path_str: &str) -> Result<Self, String> {
           let mut path = match dirs::home_dir() {
               Some(dir) => dir,
               None => return Err("could not find home directory!".to_string())
           };
           path.push(path_str);
           let mut reminder = Reminders { path, today: Local::today().naive_local(), reminder_items: vec!() };
           if let Ok(data) = std::fs::read_to_string(&reminder.path) {
               for line in data.split("\n").filter(|&l| l != "") {
                   reminder.add(reminder.parse_item(line.split(" ").collect::<Vec<_>>().into_iter())?);
               }
           }
           Ok(reminder)
       }
       fn add(&mut self, item: ReminderItem) {
           if item.date.num_days_from_ce() >= self.today.num_days_from_ce() {
               self.reminder_items.push(item);
               self.reminder_items.sort_unstable_by_key(|item| item.date);
           }
       }
       fn stringify(&self, ndays: i32) -> String {
           let max_day = self.today.num_days_from_ce() + ndays;
           self.reminder_items
               .iter()
               .filter(|item| ndays == 0 || item.date.num_days_from_ce() < max_day)
               .map(|i| i.to_string() + "\n")
               .join("")
       }
       fn close(self) -> Result<(), String> {
           match std::fs::write(&self.path, self.stringify(0)) {
               Err(m) => Err(format!("could not write reminders to {}: {}", self.path.display(), m)),
               _ => Ok(())
           }
       }
       fn parse_item<I, T>(&self, mut args: I) -> Result<ReminderItem, String>
       where I: Iterator<Item=T> + ExactSizeIterator,
           T: std::fmt::Display,
       {
           let usage = Err("usage: remind [year] month day message".to_string());
           let mut arg = args.next();
           let year = match &arg {
               Some(year) => {
                   match year.to_string().parse::<i32>() {
                       Ok(year) if year > 99 => {
                           arg = args.next();
                           Some(year)
                       }
                       Ok(_) => None,
                       _ => return usage
                   }
               }
               None => return usage
           };
           if args.len() < 2 {
               return usage;
           }
           let month = match arg.unwrap().to_string().parse::<u32>() {
               Ok(month) => month,
               _ => return usage
           };
           let day = match args.next().unwrap().to_string().parse::<u32>() {
               Ok(day) => day,
               _ => return usage
           };
   
           let date = if let Some(year) = year {
               NaiveDate::from_ymd_opt(year, month, day)
           } else {
               self.next_recurring_date(month, day)
           };
           if let Some(date) = date {
               Ok(ReminderItem{ date, recurring: year.is_none(), message: args.join(" ") })
           } else {
               usage
           }
       }
       fn next_recurring_date(&self, month: u32, day: u32) -> Option<NaiveDate> {
           let mut year = self.today.year();
           if month == 2 && day == 29 {
               loop {
                   if let Some(date) = NaiveDate::from_ymd_opt(year, 2, 29) {
                       if date.num_days_from_ce() >= self.today.num_days_from_ce() {
                           break Some(date);
                       }
                   }
                   year += 1;
               }
           } else if let Some(date) = NaiveDate::from_ymd_opt(year, month, day) {
               if date.num_days_from_ce() >= self.today.num_days_from_ce() {
                   Some(date)
               } else {
                   NaiveDate::from_ymd_opt(year + 1, month, day)
               }
           } else {
               None
           }
       }
   }
   
   impl std::fmt::Display for ReminderItem {
       fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter) -> std::fmt::Result {
           if !self.recurring {
               write!(f, "{} ", self.date.year())?;
           }
           write!(f, "{} {} {}", self.date.month(), self.date.day(), self.message)
       }
   }
   

   Github: https://github.com/wpwoodjr/remind
2. Daniel said

   July 6, 2019 at 8:14 PM

   Here’s a solution in Python.

   from datetime import datetime, timedelta
   import os
   from pathlib import Path
   import re
   import sys
   
   DATABASE_PATH = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser('~'), '.reminders')
   PATTERN = re.compile('^(?:(\d{3,4}) )?(\d{1,2}) (\d{1,2}) (.*)(?:\n)?$')
   NOW = datetime.now()
   
   
   class Reminder:
       def __init__(self, year, month, day, message):
           self.year = year
           self.month = month
           self.day = day
           self.message = message
   
       @staticmethod
       def from_line(line):
           m = re.match(PATTERN, line)
           if m is None:
               return None
           year, month, day, message = m.groups()
           year = int(year) if year else year
           month = int(month)
           day = int(day)
           reminder = Reminder(year, month, day, message)
           return reminder
   
       def expired(self):
           if self.year is None:
               return False
           reminder_ymd = datetime(self.year, self.month, self.day)
           now_ymd = datetime(NOW.year, NOW.month, NOW.day)
           return reminder_ymd < now_ymd
   
       def active(self):
           now_ymd = datetime(NOW.year, NOW.month, NOW.day)
           if self.year is None:
               reminder_ymd = datetime(NOW.year, self.month, self.day)
               if reminder_ymd < now_ymd:
                   reminder_ymd = datetime(NOW.year + 1, self.month, self.day)
           else:
               reminder_ymd = datetime(self.year, self.month, self.day)
           next_week_ymd = now_ymd + timedelta(days=7)
           return now_ymd <= reminder_ymd <= next_week_ymd
   
       def __str__(self):
           s = f'{self.year} ' if self.year is not None else ''
           s += f'{self.month} {self.day} {self.message}'
           return s
   
   
   class Reminders:
       def __init__(self, path):
           self.path = path
           self.reminders = []
           try:
               with open(DATABASE_PATH) as f:
                   lines = f.readlines()
                   for line in lines:
                       reminder = Reminder.from_line(line)
                       self.reminders.append(reminder)
           except FileNotFoundError:
               Path(DATABASE_PATH).touch()
   
       def append(self, reminder):
           self.reminders.append(reminder)
           with open(DATABASE_PATH, 'a') as f:
               f.write(f'{reminder}\n')
   
       def drop_expired(self):
           self.reminders = [reminder for reminder in self.reminders if not reminder.expired()]
           with open(DATABASE_PATH, 'w') as f:
               lines = [f'{reminder}\n' for reminder in self.reminders]
               f.writelines(lines)
   
       def print_active(self):
           for reminder in self.reminders:
               if not reminder.active():
                   continue
               print(reminder)
   
   
   reminders = Reminders(DATABASE_PATH)
   reminders.drop_expired()
   
   if len(sys.argv) == 1:
       reminders.print_active()
   else:
       reminder = Reminder.from_line(' '.join(sys.argv[1:]))
       if reminder is None:
           sys.exit(os.EX_USAGE)
       reminders.append(reminder)
   
   sys.exit(os.EX_OK)
   
3. Interactive Diff | Programming Praxis said

   July 12, 2019 at 9:01 AM

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