From c4683f3700aed3f28bb390347094e5b1c429efcc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tobias Witek <tobi@tobi-wan-kenobi.at>
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2016 15:58:35 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [output] Create preliminary framework for output handling

Prepare a framework for having modular outputs. Essentially, the main
application uses a output-type object to format strings for the
preamble, the actual data items, and a "postamble" (finalizer). The
printing of that representation, again, is up to the main application,
not the output framework.

Probably, at some point in the future, an interface class will be in
order, but right now, I want to keep it lean - seeing as for the
forseeable future, i3bar is going to be the one and only consumer of
this.
---
 bumblebee/__init__.py         |  0
 bumblebee/outputs/__init__.py |  0
 bumblebee/outputs/i3.py       | 13 +++++++++++++
 i3bumblebee                   | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 33 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 bumblebee/__init__.py
 create mode 100644 bumblebee/outputs/__init__.py
 create mode 100644 bumblebee/outputs/i3.py
 create mode 100755 i3bumblebee

diff --git a/bumblebee/__init__.py b/bumblebee/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/bumblebee/outputs/__init__.py b/bumblebee/outputs/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/bumblebee/outputs/i3.py b/bumblebee/outputs/i3.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..39c8e20
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bumblebee/outputs/i3.py
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+import json
+
+class i3bar:
+    def preamble(self):
+        return json.dumps({ "version": 1 }) + "["
+
+    def data(self, data):
+        return json.dumps(data) + ","
+
+    def finalize(self):
+        return "]"
+
+# vim: tabstop=8 expandtab shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
diff --git a/i3bumblebee b/i3bumblebee
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..f798013
--- /dev/null
+++ b/i3bumblebee
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import bumblebee.outputs.i3
+
+def main():
+    output = bumblebee.outputs.i3.i3bar()
+
+    print output.preamble()
+
+    while True:
+        # TODO: retrieve data from modules
+        data = []
+        print output.data(data)
+
+    print output.finalize()
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
+
+# vim: tabstop=8 expandtab shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4