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%% -*- erlang-indent-level: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; fill-column: 80 -*-
%%% Copyright 2012 Erlware, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
%%%
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%%% Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
%%% except in compliance with the License.  You may obtain
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%%%
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%%% specific language governing permissions and limitations
%%% under the License.
%%%---------------------------------------------------------------------------
%%% @author Eric Merritt <[email protected]>
%%% @copyright (C) 2012 Erlware, LLC.
%%%
%%% @doc Trivial utility file to help handle common tasks
-module(rcl_util).

-export([mkdir_p/1,
         to_binary/1,
         is_error/1,
         error_reason/1,
         indent/1]).

-define(ONE_LEVEL_INDENT, "    ").
%%============================================================================
%% types
%%============================================================================


%%============================================================================
%% API
%%============================================================================
%% @doc Makes a directory including parent dirs if they are missing.
-spec mkdir_p(string()) -> ok | {error, Reason::file:posix()}.
mkdir_p(Path) ->
    %% We are exploiting a feature of ensuredir that that creates all
    %% directories up to the last element in the filename, then ignores
    %% that last element. This way we ensure that the dir is created
    %% and not have any worries about path names
    DirName = filename:join([filename:absname(Path), "tmp"]),
    filelib:ensure_dir(DirName).

%% @doc ident to the level specified
-spec indent(non_neg_integer()) -> iolist().
indent(Amount) when erlang:is_integer(Amount) ->
    [?ONE_LEVEL_INDENT || _ <- lists:seq(1, Amount)].

-spec to_binary(iolist() | binary()) -> binary().
to_binary(String) when erlang:is_list(String) ->
    erlang:iolist_to_binary(String);
to_binary(Bin) when erlang:is_binary(Bin) ->
    Bin.

%% @doc get the reason for a particular relcool error
-spec error_reason(relcool:error()) -> any().
error_reason({error, {_, Reason}}) ->
    Reason.
%% @doc check to see if the value is a relcool error
-spec is_error(relcool:error() | any()) -> boolean().
is_error({error, _}) ->
    true;
is_error(_) ->
    false.



%%%===================================================================
%%% Test Functions
%%%===================================================================

-ifndef(NOTEST).
-include_lib("eunit/include/eunit.hrl").

-endif.