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#            Nim's Runtime Library
#        (c) Copyright 2018 Andreas Rumpf
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## This module provides an API for macros to collect compile-time information
## across module boundaries. It should be used instead of global `{.compileTime.}`
## variables as those break incremental compilation.
## 
## The main feature of this module is that if you create `CacheTable`s or
## any other `Cache` types with the same name in different modules, their
## content will be shared, meaning that you can fill a `CacheTable` in 
## one module, and iterate over its contents in another.

runnableExamples:
  import std/macros

  const mcTable = CacheTable"myTable"
  const mcSeq = CacheSeq"mySeq"
  const mcCounter = CacheCounter"myCounter"
  
  static:
    # add new key "val" with the value `myval`
    let myval = newLit("hello ic")
    mcTable["val"] = myval
    assert mcTable["val"].kind == nnkStrLit
  
  # Can access the same cache from different static contexts
  # All the information is retained
  static:
    # get value from `mcTable` and add it to `mcSeq`
    mcSeq.add(mcTable["val"])
    assert mcSeq.len == 1
  
  static:
    assert mcSeq[0].strVal == "hello ic"

    # increase `mcCounter` by 3
    mcCounter.inc(3)
    assert mcCounter.value == 3


type
  CacheSeq* = distinct string
    ## Compile-time sequence of `NimNode`s.
  CacheTable* = distinct string
    ## Compile-time table of key-value pairs.
    ## 
    ## Keys are `string`s and values are `NimNode`s.
  CacheCounter* = distinct string
    ## Compile-time counter, uses `int` for storing the count.

proc value*(c: CacheCounter): int {.magic: "NccValue".} =
  ## Returns the value of a counter `c`.
  runnableExamples:
    static:
      let counter = CacheCounter"valTest"
      # default value is 0
      assert counter.value == 0

      inc counter
      assert counter.value == 1

proc inc*(c: CacheCounter; by = 1) {.magic: "NccInc".} =
  ## Increments the counter `c` with the value `by`.
  runnableExamples:
    static:
      let counter = CacheCounter"incTest"
      inc counter
      inc counter, 5

      assert counter.value == 6

proc add*(s: CacheSeq; value: NimNode) {.magic: "NcsAdd".} =
  ## Adds `value` to `s`.
  runnableExamples:
    import std/macros
    const mySeq = CacheSeq"addTest"
    
    static:
      mySeq.add(newLit(5))
      mySeq.add(newLit("hello ic"))
  
      assert mySeq.len == 2
      assert mySeq[1].strVal == "hello ic"

proc incl*(s: CacheSeq; value: NimNode) {.magic: "NcsIncl".} = 
  ## Adds `value` to `s`.
  ## 
  ## .. hint:: This doesn't do anything if `value` is already in `s`.
  runnableExamples:
    import std/macros
    const mySeq = CacheSeq"inclTest"
    
    static:
      mySeq.incl(newLit(5))
      mySeq.incl(newLit(5))

      # still one element
      assert mySeq.len == 1

proc len*(s: CacheSeq): int {.magic: "NcsLen".} =
  ## Returns the length of `s`.
  runnableExamples:
    import std/macros

    const mySeq = CacheSeq"lenTest"
    static:
      let val = newLit("helper")
      mySeq.add(val)
      assert mySeq.len == 1
      
      mySeq.add(val)
      assert mySeq.len == 2

proc `[]`*(s: CacheSeq; i: int): NimNode {.magic: "NcsAt".} =
  ## Returns the `i`th value from `s`.
  runnableExamples:
    import std/macros

    const mySeq = CacheSeq"subTest"
    static:
      mySeq.add(newLit(42))
      assert mySeq[0].intVal == 42

iterator items*(s: CacheSeq): NimNode =
  ## Iterates over each item in `s`.
  runnableExamples:
    import std/macros
    const myseq = CacheSeq"itemsTest"
    
    static:
      myseq.add(newLit(5))
      myseq.add(newLit(42))
      
      for val in myseq:
        # check that all values in `myseq` are int literals
        assert val.kind == nnkIntLit
  
  for i in 0 ..< len(s): yield s[i]

proc `[]=`*(t: CacheTable; key: string, value: NimNode) {.magic: "NctPut".} =
  ## Inserts a `(key, value)` pair into `t`. 
  ## 
  ## .. warning:: `key` has to be unique! Assigning `value` to a `key` that is already
  ##   in the table will result in a compiler error.
  runnableExamples:
    import std/macros

    const mcTable = CacheTable"subTest"
    static:
      # assign newLit(5) to the key "value"
      mcTable["value"] = newLit(5)
      
      # check that we can get the value back
      assert mcTable["value"].kind == nnkIntLit    

proc len*(t: CacheTable): int {.magic: "NctLen".} = 
  ## Returns the number of elements in `t`.
  runnableExamples:
    import std/macros

    const dataTable = CacheTable"lenTest"
    static:
      dataTable["key"] = newLit(5)
      assert dataTable.len == 1

proc `[]`*(t: CacheTable; key: string): NimNode {.magic: "NctGet".} =
  ## Retrieves the `NimNode` value at `t[key]`.
  runnableExamples:
    import std/macros

    const mcTable = CacheTable"subTest"
    static:
      mcTable["toAdd"] = newStmtList()
      
      # get the NimNode back
      assert mcTable["toAdd"].kind == nnkStmtList

proc hasNext(t: CacheTable; iter: int): bool {.magic: "NctHasNext".}
proc next(t: CacheTable; iter: int): (string, NimNode, int) {.magic: "NctNext".}

iterator pairs*(t: CacheTable): (string, NimNode) =
  ## Iterates over all `(key, value)` pairs in `t`.
  runnableExamples:
    import std/macros
    const mytabl = CacheTable"values"
    
    static: 
      mytabl["intVal"] = newLit(5)
      mytabl["otherVal"] = newLit(6)
      for key, val in mytabl:
        # make sure that we actually get the same keys
        assert key in ["intVal", "otherVal"]

        # all vals are int literals
        assert val.kind == nnkIntLit

  var h = 0
  while hasNext(t, h):
    let (a, b, h2) = next(t, h)
    yield (a, b)
    h = h2