LiveJSON

livejson.py

# August 2014
# Adam Petrone

# This is a Sublime Text 2 plugin and was designed 
# to allow live-editing of variables in my codebase
# for quicker iteration times.

# It communicates with CivetServer on the native C++ side
# and parses the incoming JSON.

import sublime, sublime_plugin
import json
import httplib

SERVER_HOST = "localhost:1983"

class PromptSetServerCommand(sublime_plugin.WindowCommand):
	def run(self):
		self.window.show_input_panel("Server:", "", self.on_done, None, None)

	def on_done(self, value):
		global SERVER_HOST
		SERVER_HOST = value

class LiveJsonListener(sublime_plugin.EventListener):
	def run(self, edit):
		pass

	def on_modified(self, view):

		filename = view.file_name()
		if filename and filename.endswith(".json"):

			try:
				view.erase_regions("error")

				# get the buffer contents from the view
				contents = view.substr(sublime.Region(0, view.size()))

				# try to load it as json
				data = json.loads(contents)

				# if it loaded, we can send it
				self.put_request(contents)

			except:
				# mark the region
				region = [s for s in view.sel()]
				view.add_regions("error", region, "invalid", "bookmark")

				# ignore malformed json
				pass

	def put_request(self, data):
		global SERVER_HOST
		server_url = SERVER_HOST.split(":")
		connection = httplib.HTTPConnection(server_url[0], server_url[1])
		connection.request("PUT", "/json", data)
		response = connection.getresponse()
		if response.status != 204 and response.status != 200:
			print("Request failed: (%i) %s" % (response.status, response.reason))