#!/usr/bin/env 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.
#
import json
import socket
import sys
import fileinput
import subprocess
import time
import os

def send(target, message):
    data = {"to": target, "privmsg" : message}
    #print(json.dumps(data))
    try:
        s = socket.create_connection(("localhost", 6659))
        s.sendall(json.dumps(data))
    except socket.error, e:
        sys.stderr.write("irk: write to server failed: %r\n" % e)

try:
    s = socket.create_connection(("localhost", 6659))
except:
    print "No irker is running."

target = sys.argv[1]
if not "irc:" in target:
    target = "irc://chat.freenode.net/{0}".format(target)
message = " ".join(sys.argv[2:])
message = message.decode('string_escape')
if message == '-':
    for line in fileinput.input('-'):
        send(target, line.rstrip('\n'))
else:
    send(target, message)