documentation/lib/output/util/linker_stack.js

/* @flow */
'use strict';
var globalsDocs = require('globals-docs');
var walk = require('../../walk');

/**
 * Generate a linker method that links given hardcoded namepaths to URLs
 *
 * @param {Object} paths an object specified in documentation.yml of hard paths
 * @returns {Function} linker
 */
function pathsLinker(paths/* Object */) {
  return function (namespace) {
    if (paths[namespace]) {
      return paths[namespace];
    }
  };
}

/**
 * Given an array of functions, call each of them with `input`
 * and return the output of the first one that returns a truthy value.
 *
 * @param {Array<Function>} fns array of methods
 * @param {*} input any input
 * @returns {*} any output
 */
function firstPass(fns/*: Array<Function> */, input) {
  for (var i = 0; i < fns.length; i++) {
    var output = fns[i](input);
    if (output) {
      return output;
    }
  }
}

/**
 * Create a linking method that takes a namepath and returns a URI
 * or a falsy value
 *
 * @param {Object} config - configuration value
 * @returns {Function} linker method
 */
class LinkerStack {

  /* :: stack: Array<Function> */
  /* :: link: Function */

  constructor(config/*: DocumentationConfig */) {
    this.stack = [];

    if (config.defaultGlobals !== false) {
      this.stack.unshift(namespace => {
        if (namespace) {
          return globalsDocs.getDoc(namespace, config.defaultGlobalsEnvs);
        }
      });
    }

    if (config.paths) {
      this.stack.unshift(pathsLinker(config.paths));
    }

    this.link = this._link.bind(this);
  }

  /**
   * Given that the linker stack is a stack of functions, each of which might
   * be able to resolve the URL target of a given namespace, namespaceResolver
   * adds a function to the stack. You give it a list of comments and it
   * adds a function that, if it matches a namespace to a comment, runs
   * `resolver` on that comment's namespace in order to get a URL. This makes
   * it possible for themes to put each function on a separate page, or at
   * different anchors on the same page, and the resolver does stuff like
   * adding '#' in front of the namespace or turning the namespace into a URL
   * path.
   *
   * @param {Array<Object>} comments a list of comments
   * @param {Function} resolver a method that turns a namespace into a URL
   * @returns {LinkerStack} returns this
   * @private
   * @example
   * var linkerStack = new LinkerStack(options)
   *   .namespaceResolver(comments, function (namespace) {
   *     var slugger = new GithubSlugger();
   *     return '#' + slugger.slug(namespace);
   *   });
   */
  namespaceResolver(comments /*: Array<Comment> */, resolver/*: Function */) {
    var namespaces = {};
    walk(comments, comment => {
      namespaces[comment.namespace] = true;
    });
    this.stack.unshift(namespace => {
      if (namespaces[namespace] === true) {
        return resolver(namespace);
      }
    });
    return this;
  }

  /**
   * Now that you've configured the LinkerStack with `namespaceResolver`
   * and a configuration, run it against a namepath. Might return a URL if
   * it can resolve a target, otherwise returns undefined.
   *
   * @param {string} namepath the namepath of a comment
   * @returns {string?} URL target or maybe undefined
   * @private
   */
  _link(namepath/*: string */) {
    return firstPass(this.stack, namepath);
  }
}

module.exports = LinkerStack;