exa/src/fs/filter.rs

//! Filtering and sorting the list of files before displaying them.

use std::cmp::Ordering;
use std::iter::FromIterator;
use std::os::unix::fs::MetadataExt;

use glob;
use natord;

use fs::File;
use fs::DotFilter;


/// The **file filter** processes a list of files before displaying them to
/// the user, by removing files they don’t want to see, and putting the list
/// in the desired order.
///
/// Usually a user does not want to see *every* file in the list. The most
/// common case is to remove files starting with `.`, which are designated
/// as ‘hidden’ files.
///
/// The special files `.` and `..` files are not actually filtered out, but
/// need to be inserted into the list, in a special case.
///
/// The filter also governs sorting the list. After being filtered, pairs of
/// files are compared and sorted based on the result, with the sort field
/// performing the comparison.
#[derive(PartialEq, Debug, Clone)]
pub struct FileFilter {

    /// Whether directories should be listed first, and other types of file
    /// second. Some users prefer it like this.
    pub list_dirs_first: bool,

    /// The metadata field to sort by.
    pub sort_field: SortField,

    /// Whether to reverse the sorting order. This would sort the largest
    /// files first, or files starting with Z, or the most-recently-changed
    /// ones, depending on the sort field.
    pub reverse: bool,

    /// Which invisible “dot” files to include when listing a directory.
    ///
    /// Files starting with a single “.” are used to determine “system” or
    /// “configuration” files that should not be displayed in a regular
    /// directory listing, and the directory entries “.” and “..” are
    /// considered extra-special.
    ///
    /// This came about more or less by a complete historical accident,
    /// when the original `ls` tried to hide `.` and `..`:
    /// https://plus.google.com/+RobPikeTheHuman/posts/R58WgWwN9jp
    ///
    ///   When one typed ls, however, these files appeared, so either Ken or
    ///   Dennis added a simple test to the program. It was in assembler then,
    ///   but the code in question was equivalent to something like this:
    ///      if (name[0] == '.') continue;
    ///   This statement was a little shorter than what it should have been,
    ///   which is:
    ///      if (strcmp(name, ".") == 0 || strcmp(name, "..") == 0) continue;
    ///   but hey, it was easy.
    ///
    ///   Two things resulted.
    ///
    ///   First, a bad precedent was set. A lot of other lazy programmers
    ///   introduced bugs by making the same simplification. Actual files
    ///   beginning with periods are often skipped when they should be counted.
    ///
    ///   Second, and much worse, the idea of a "hidden" or "dot" file was
    ///   created. As a consequence, more lazy programmers started dropping
    ///   files into everyone's home directory. I don't have all that much
    ///   stuff installed on the machine I'm using to type this, but my home
    ///   directory has about a hundred dot files and I don't even know what
    ///   most of them are or whether they're still needed. Every file name
    ///   evaluation that goes through my home directory is slowed down by
    ///   this accumulated sludge.
    pub dot_filter: DotFilter,

    /// Glob patterns to ignore. Any file name that matches *any* of these
    /// patterns won’t be displayed in the list.
    pub ignore_patterns: IgnorePatterns,
}


impl FileFilter {
    /// Remove every file in the given vector that does *not* pass the
    /// filter predicate for files found inside a directory.
    pub fn filter_child_files(&self, files: &mut Vec<File>) {
        files.retain(|f| !self.ignore_patterns.is_ignored(&f.name));
    }

    /// Remove every file in the given vector that does *not* pass the
    /// filter predicate for file names specified on the command-line.
    ///
    /// The rules are different for these types of files than the other
    /// type because the ignore rules can be used with globbing. For
    /// example, running `exa -I='*.tmp' .vimrc` shouldn’t filter out the
    /// dotfile, because it’s been directly specified. But running
    /// `exa -I='*.ogg' music/*` should filter out the ogg files obtained
    /// from the glob, even though the globbing is done by the shell!
    pub fn filter_argument_files(&self, files: &mut Vec<File>) {
        files.retain(|f| !self.ignore_patterns.is_ignored(&f.name));
    }

    /// Sort the files in the given vector based on the sort field option.
    pub fn sort_files<'a, F>(&self, files: &mut Vec<F>)
    where F: AsRef<File<'a>> {

        files.sort_by(|a, b| self.sort_field.compare_files(a.as_ref(), b.as_ref()));

        if self.reverse {
            files.reverse();
        }

        if self.list_dirs_first {
            // This relies on the fact that `sort_by` is *stable*: it will keep
            // adjacent elements next to each other.
            files.sort_by(|a, b| b.as_ref().is_directory().cmp(&a.as_ref().is_directory()));
        }
    }
}


/// User-supplied field to sort by.
#[derive(PartialEq, Debug, Copy, Clone)]
pub enum SortField {

    /// Don’t apply any sorting. This is usually used as an optimisation in
    /// scripts, where the order doesn’t matter.
    Unsorted,

    /// The file name. This is the default sorting.
    Name(SortCase),

    /// The file’s extension, with extensionless files being listed first.
    Extension(SortCase),

    /// The file’s size, in bytes.
    Size,

    /// The file’s inode, which usually corresponds to the order in which
    /// files were created on the filesystem, more or less.
    FileInode,

    /// The time this file was modified (the “mtime”).
    ///
    /// As this is stored as a Unix timestamp, rather than a local time
    /// instance, the time zone does not matter and will only be used to
    /// display the timestamps, not compare them.
    ModifiedDate,

    /// The time file was accessed (the “atime”).
    ///
    /// Oddly enough, this field rarely holds the *actual* accessed time.
    /// Recording a read time means writing to the file each time it’s read
    /// slows the whole operation down, so many systems will only update the
    /// timestamp in certain circumstances. This has become common enough that
    /// it’s now expected behaviour!
    /// http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/8842
    AccessedDate,

    /// The time this file was changed or created (the “ctime”).
    ///
    /// Contrary to the name, this field is used to mark the time when a
    /// file’s metadata changed -- its permissions, owners, or link count.
    ///
    /// In original Unix, this was, however, meant as creation time.
    /// https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/cacm.html
    CreatedDate,

    /// The type of the file: directories, links, pipes, regular, files, etc.
    ///
    /// Files are ordered according to the `PartialOrd` implementation of
    /// `fs::fields::Type`, so changing that will change this.
    FileType,
}

/// Whether a field should be sorted case-sensitively or case-insensitively.
/// This determines which of the `natord` functions to use.
///
/// I kept on forgetting which one was sensitive and which one was
/// insensitive. Would a case-sensitive sort put capital letters first because
/// it takes the case of the letters into account, or intermingle them with
/// lowercase letters because it takes the difference between the two cases
/// into account? I gave up and just named these two variants after the
/// effects they have.
#[derive(PartialEq, Debug, Copy, Clone)]
pub enum SortCase {

    /// Sort files case-sensitively with uppercase first, with ‘A’ coming
    /// before ‘a’.
    ABCabc,

    /// Sort files case-insensitively, with ‘A’ being equal to ‘a’.
    AaBbCc,
}

impl SortField {

    /// Compares two files to determine the order they should be listed in,
    /// depending on the search field.
    ///
    /// The `natord` crate is used here to provide a more *natural* sorting
    /// order than just sorting character-by-character. This splits filenames
    /// into groups between letters and numbers, and then sorts those blocks
    /// together, so `file10` will sort after `file9`, instead of before it
    /// because of the `1`.
    pub fn compare_files(&self, a: &File, b: &File) -> Ordering {
        use self::SortCase::{ABCabc, AaBbCc};

        match *self {
            SortField::Unsorted  => Ordering::Equal,

            SortField::Name(ABCabc)  => natord::compare(&a.name, &b.name),
            SortField::Name(AaBbCc)  => natord::compare_ignore_case(&a.name, &b.name),

            SortField::Size          => a.metadata.len().cmp(&b.metadata.len()),
            SortField::FileInode     => a.metadata.ino().cmp(&b.metadata.ino()),
            SortField::ModifiedDate  => a.metadata.mtime().cmp(&b.metadata.mtime()),
            SortField::AccessedDate  => a.metadata.atime().cmp(&b.metadata.atime()),
            SortField::CreatedDate   => a.metadata.ctime().cmp(&b.metadata.ctime()),

            SortField::FileType => match a.type_char().cmp(&b.type_char()) { // todo: this recomputes
                Ordering::Equal  => natord::compare(&*a.name, &*b.name),
                order            => order,
            },

            SortField::Extension(ABCabc) => match a.ext.cmp(&b.ext) {
                Ordering::Equal  => natord::compare(&*a.name, &*b.name),
                order            => order,
            },

            SortField::Extension(AaBbCc) => match a.ext.cmp(&b.ext) {
                Ordering::Equal  => natord::compare_ignore_case(&*a.name, &*b.name),
                order            => order,
            },
        }
    }
}


/// The **ignore patterns** are a list of globs that are tested against
/// each filename, and if any of them match, that file isn’t displayed.
/// This lets a user hide, say, text files by ignoring `*.txt`.
#[derive(PartialEq, Default, Debug, Clone)]
pub struct IgnorePatterns {
    patterns: Vec<glob::Pattern>,
}

impl FromIterator<glob::Pattern> for IgnorePatterns {
    fn from_iter<I: IntoIterator<Item = glob::Pattern>>(iter: I) -> Self {
        IgnorePatterns { patterns: iter.into_iter().collect() }
    }
}

impl IgnorePatterns {

    /// Create a new list from the input glob strings, turning the inputs that
    /// are valid glob patterns into an IgnorePatterns. The inputs that don’t
    /// parse correctly are returned separately.
    pub fn parse_from_iter<'a, I: IntoIterator<Item = &'a str>>(iter: I) -> (Self, Vec<glob::PatternError>) {
        let iter = iter.into_iter();

        // Almost all glob patterns are valid, so it’s worth pre-allocating
        // the vector with enough space for all of them.
        let mut patterns = match iter.size_hint() {
            (_, Some(count))  => Vec::with_capacity(count),
             _                => Vec::new(),
        };

        // Similarly, assume there won’t be any errors.
        let mut errors = Vec::new();

        for input in iter {
            match glob::Pattern::new(input) {
                Ok(pat) => patterns.push(pat),
                Err(e)  => errors.push(e),
            }
        }

        (IgnorePatterns { patterns }, errors)
    }

    /// Create a new empty set of patterns that matches nothing.
    pub fn empty() -> IgnorePatterns {
        IgnorePatterns { patterns: Vec::new() }
    }

    /// Test whether the given file should be hidden from the results.
    fn is_ignored(&self, file: &str) -> bool {
        self.patterns.iter().any(|p| p.matches(file))
    }
}



#[cfg(test)]
mod test_ignores {
    use super::*;

    #[test]
    fn empty_matches_nothing() {
        let pats = IgnorePatterns::empty();
        assert_eq!(false, pats.is_ignored("nothing"));
        assert_eq!(false, pats.is_ignored("test.mp3"));
    }

    #[test]
    fn ignores_a_glob() {
        let (pats, fails) = IgnorePatterns::parse_from_iter(vec![ "*.mp3" ]);
        assert!(fails.is_empty());
        assert_eq!(false, pats.is_ignored("nothing"));
        assert_eq!(true,  pats.is_ignored("test.mp3"));
    }

    #[test]
    fn ignores_an_exact_filename() {
        let (pats, fails) = IgnorePatterns::parse_from_iter(vec![ "nothing" ]);
        assert!(fails.is_empty());
        assert_eq!(true,  pats.is_ignored("nothing"));
        assert_eq!(false, pats.is_ignored("test.mp3"));
    }

    #[test]
    fn ignores_both() {
        let (pats, fails) = IgnorePatterns::parse_from_iter(vec![ "nothing", "*.mp3" ]);
        assert!(fails.is_empty());
        assert_eq!(true, pats.is_ignored("nothing"));
        assert_eq!(true, pats.is_ignored("test.mp3"));
    }
}