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#! /usr/bin/python
# Illustrates how to test irkerd.
#
# First argument must be a channel URL. If it does not begin with "irc", 
# the base URL for freenode is prepended.
#
# Second argument must be a payload string.  Standard C-style escapes 
# such as \n and \t are decoded.
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause
import json
import socket
import sys
import fileinput

DEFAULT_SERVER = ("localhost", 6659)

def connect(server = DEFAULT_SERVER):
    return socket.create_connection(server)

def send(s, target, message):
    data = {"to": target, "privmsg" : message}
    #print(json.dumps(data))
    s.sendall(bytes(json.dumps(data, encoding="ascii")))

def irk(target, message, server = DEFAULT_SERVER):
    s = connect(server)
    if "irc:" not in target and "ircs:" not in target:
        target = "irc://chat.freenode.net/{0}".format(target)
    if message == '-':
        for line in fileinput.input('-'):
            send(s, target, line.rstrip('\n'))
    else:
        send(s, target, message)
    s.close()

def main():
    target = sys.argv[1]
    message = " ".join(sys.argv[2:])
    # XXX: why is this necessary?
    #message = message.decode('string_escape')

    try:
        irk(target, message)
    except socket.error as e:
        sys.stderr.write("irk: write to server failed: %r\n" % e)
        sys.exit(1)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()