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My first Arc project: a simple Wiki

The only way to learn a programming language is to write something in it. So, I decided it was time to dig into Arc and my first project is a very simple Wiki.

Here's the source (wiki.arc):

; A wiki written in Arc (arc0)
;
; Copyright (c) 2008 John Graham-Cumming
;
; (load "wiki.arc")
; (wsv)
;
; Then go to http://localhost:8080/show

(load "web.arc")
(load "util.arc")

(= pagedir* "wiki/")

(def histfiles (page)
  (sort > (map [coerce _ 'int] (rem [is "current" _] (dir (pagepath page))))))

(def nexthist (page)
  (let h (histfiles page)
    (if h (++ (car h)) 0)))

(def pagepath (page)
  (string pagedir* (page 0) "/" (page 0) (page 1) "/" page ))

(def pagefile (page (o file))
  (string (pagepath page) "/" (or file "current")))

(def slurp (page (o file))
  (if 
  (let p (pagefile page file)
    (if (file-exists p) (readfile p)))))

(def upperlen (word)
  (len (keep upper word)))

(def is-wikilink (word)
  (if (alphas word)
    (if (~is (word 0) (downcase (word 0)))
      (>= (upperlen word) 2))))

(mac url-show (page)
  `(string "show?p=" ,page))

(mac url-edit (page)
  `(string "edit?p=" ,page))

(mac link-show (page text)
  `(link ,text (url-show ,page)))

(mac link-edit (page text)
  `(link ,text (url-edit ,page)))

(def wikify (word)
  (if (is-wikilink word)
    (if (file-exists (pagefile word))
      (link-show word word)
      (pr word)(link-edit word "?"))
    (pr word))
  (ws))

(mac spew-raw (page)
  `(spew ,page [pr _ " "]))

(mac spew-wiki (page (o file))
  `(spew ,page [wikify (string _)] ,file))

(def spew (page f (o file))
  (let p (pagepath page)
  (if (dir-exists p) 
    (map f (flat (map tokens (slurp page file))))
    (pr "This page does not yet exist."))))

(def squash (file body)
  (writefile1 body file))

(def save-page (req)
  (w/$ p
    (w/$ t
      (squash (pagefile p) t)
      (squash (string (pagepath p) "/" (nexthist p)) t))
    (url-show p)))

(mac mtime (f)
  `(datetime (file-mtime ,f)))

(def last-modified (page)
  (let f (pagefile page)
    (if (file-exists f) 
      (pr "Last modified: " (mtime f)))))

(mac show-page (page)
  `(whitepage
    (tag h1 (link-show ,page ,page))
    (spew-wiki ,page)
    (br 2)
    (hr)
    (last-modified ,page)
    (br)
    (link-edit ,page "[edit]")
    (ws)
    (link "[history]" (string "history?p=" ,page))))

(mac edit-page (page)
  `(whitepage
   (tag h1 (pr (string "Editing " ,page)))
   (arform save-page 
     (textarea "t" 25 80 (spew-raw ,page))
     (hidden "p" ,page)
     (br)
     (submit "Save"))
     (link-show ,page "[cancel]")
   (br 2)))

(def revision (page rev)
  (tag li
    (pr "Revision: " )
    (link rev (string "revision?p=" page "&r=" rev))
    (pr " modified " (mtime (string (pagepath page) "/" rev)))))

(mac history-page (page)
  `(whitepage
   (tag h1 (pr (string "History of " ,page)))
   (tag ul (map [revision ,page _] (histfiles ,page)))
   (hr)
   (link-show ,page (string "Back to " ,page))))

(mac revision-page (page rev)
  `(whitepage
    (tag h1 (pr "Showing revision " ,rev " of " ,page))
    (spew-wiki ,page ,rev)
    (br 2)
    (hr)
    (last-modified ,page)
    (br)
    (link-show ,page (string "Back to " ,page))))

(defop show req
  (w/$ p
    (if p
      (show-page ($ "p"))
      (show-page "HomePage"))))

(defop edit req
  (w/$ p
    (ensure-dir (pagepath p))
    (edit-page p)))

(defop history req
  (history-page ($ "p")))

(defop revision req
  (revision-page ($ "p") ($ "r")))

(def wsv ()
  (ensure-dir pagedir*)
  (asv))

It loads two helpers. The first contains common utilities that aren't really Wiki-related (util.arc):

(def alpha (c)
  (or (<= #\a c #\z) (<= #\A c #\Z)))

(def alphas (str)
  (is (keep alpha str) str))

(def upper (c)
  (is (upcase c) c))

(def datetime ((o time (seconds)))
  (let val (tostring
    (system (string "date -u -r " time " \"+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M\"")))
      (subseq val 0 (- (len val) 1))))


And the second contains enhancement to Arc's web/HTML handling (web.arc):

(mac hidden (name val)
  `(gentag input type 'hidden name ,name value ,val))

(mac hr ()
  `(gentag hr))

(mac ws ()
  `(pr " "))

(mac $ (r)
  `(arg req ,r))

(mac w/$ (r . body)
  `(with (,r ($ (string ',r))) ,@body))

In web.arc there are a couple of bits of syntax to make accessing form/URL arguments easier: ($ "p") (which gets the value of the argument p) and (w/$ p ...) which sets a variable called p to the value of the argument p and then evaluates the rest of the expression.

All this is released under the same license as Arc. (Since I have never programmed in Arc before, and it's been almost 20 years since I stopped coding in LISP or ML, I'd appreciate constructive comments).
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PS said…
Is it live somewhere? ;)
6:48 PM
John Graham-Cumming said…
Not in the Internet, but only because I need to set up mod_proxy on my box so that I can expose it.
6:50 PM
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