From 2cd29789c3503579da42c6d7289d295b2f6971a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: blob42 <contact@blob42.xyz>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 20:42:18 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] prototype spawn yarg command with piped stdin

---
 src/main.rs  | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++-----
 src/parse.rs |  6 +++++-
 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 22f1510..33d1eb1 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ use clap::error::ErrorKind;
 use yargs::{DEFAULT_SEP_PATTERN, stdin};
 use yargs::parse::InputText;
 use anyhow::Result;
-use std::io::{BufRead, Read, BufReader, stdin};
+use std::io::{BufRead, Read, BufReader, stdin, Write};
 use std::process::{self, Command, Stdio};
 
 
@@ -102,20 +102,35 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {
         eprintln!("======");
     }
 
+    let columns = input_text.split()?;
+
     // TODO: RESULT
     if cli.yargs.is_empty() {
         print!("{}", raw_input);
     } else {
         // Handle yargs
-        // Exec each yarg as a process for each column
-        // yarg #1 for column 1, yarg #2 -> col 2 ... 
+        // For each columns of text, execute the arg command on 
+        // the columns lines (xargs)
 
         // we know we have at least one elm
         let yarg = cli.yargs.first().unwrap();
-        let yarg_cmd = Command::new(yarg)
-            .stdout(Stdio::piped())
+        // execute the child process (yarg) using the 
+        // piped input
+
+        // EXAMPLE: using thread to spawn the processes
+        // std::thread::spawn(move || {
+        //     stdin.write_all("Hello, world!".as_bytes()).expect("Failed to write to stdin");
+        // });
+        let mut yarg_cmd = Command::new(yarg)
+            .stdin(Stdio::piped())
             .spawn()
             .expect(&format!("Failed to exec {yarg}"));
+
+        let mut yarg_stdin = yarg_cmd.stdin.take().expect("failed to open stdin");
+        yarg_stdin.write_all(columns[5].join("\n").as_bytes())?;
+
+
+        // println!("{}", String::from_utf8(output.stdout).unwrap());
     }
 
 
diff --git a/src/parse.rs b/src/parse.rs
index 92c072e..679a5f8 100644
--- a/src/parse.rs
+++ b/src/parse.rs
@@ -48,6 +48,10 @@ impl<'a> InputText<'a> {
     pub fn is_empty(self) -> bool {
         self.raw.is_empty()
     }
+
+    pub fn split(self) -> Result<Columns> {
+        split_columns(self.raw, &self.sep)
+    }
 }
 
 /// Return the number of columns given input text and a separator
@@ -92,7 +96,7 @@ pub fn split_columns(text: &str, sep: &str) -> Result<Columns> {
         }
     }
 
-    eprintln!("{:?}", columns);
+    // eprintln!("{:?}", columns);
 
     Ok(Columns(columns))
 }