mkpoem.sh

#!/bin/bash

POETRYHOME=/var/local/poetry

help () {
cat << EOM
usage: $0 [-t templatefile] [-d dbname] [-h]

t: pick a template file. if not an absolute path, uses $POETRYHOME/templates/\$t.json
   default: $POETRYHOME/templates/haiku.json

d: pick a database
   default: tildetowno

h: display this help and exit

examples:

poem -t sestina            # generate a sestina from the standard tildetown corpus
poem -t /home/me/tmpl.json # generate a poem using your cool custom template and standard tildetown corpus
poem -t sonnet -d mycorpus # generate a sonnet using a non-standard database on data.tilde.town
EOM
}


DB=tildetown
TMPL=$POETRYHOME/templates/haiku.json

while getopts "ht:d:" opt; do
  case $opt in
    t)
      if echo $OPTARG | grep "^/" > /dev/null; then
        TMPL=$OPTARG
      else
        TMPL=$POETRYHOME/templates/$OPTARG.json
      fi
      ;;
    d)
      DB=$OPTARG
      ;;
    h)
      help
      exit 0
      ;;
    \?)
      help
      exit 1
      ;;
  esac
done

# TODO
# * read template file and scp it to data.tilde.town:/temp/<rand>.json
# * issue ssh to call wrapper script with provided tmpl/db args
# * echo result of remote command

# TODO this will happen on data.tilde.town:
source $POETRYHOME/venvs/prosaic/bin/activate
cd $POETRYHOME/src/prosaic/prosaic

# TODO this will become an ssh invocation
hy __init__.hy create $TMPL $DB data.tilde.town