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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# baseconfig.py
+# Copyright (C) 2013 LEAP
+#
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+"""
+Implements the abstract base class for configuration
+"""
+
+import logging
+import functools
+import os
+import errno
+import copy
+
+from abc import ABCMeta, abstractmethod
+
+from leap.config.prefixers import get_platform_prefixer
+from leap.config.pluggableconfig import PluggableConfig
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+class BaseConfig:
+    """
+    Abstract base class for any JSON based configuration
+    """
+
+    __metaclass__ = ABCMeta
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        self._data = {}
+        self._config_checker = None
+
+    @abstractmethod
+    def _get_spec(self):
+        """
+        Returns the spec object for the specific configuration
+        """
+        return None
+
+    def _safe_get_value(self, key):
+        """
+        Tries to return a value only if the config has already been loaded
+
+        @rtype: depends on the config structure, dict, str, array, int
+        @return: returns the value for the specified key in the config
+        """
+        assert self._config_checker, "Load the config first"
+        return self._config_checker.config[key]
+
+    def get_path_prefix(self, standalone=False):
+        """
+        Returns the platform dependant path prefixer
+
+        @param standalone: if True it will return the prefix for a
+        standalone application. Otherwise, it will return the system
+        default for configuration storage.
+        @param type: bool
+        """
+        return get_platform_prefixer().get_path_prefix(standalone=standalone)
+
+    def loaded(self):
+        """
+        Returns True if the configuration has been already
+        loaded. False otherwise
+        """
+        return self._config_checker is not None
+
+    def save(self, path_list):
+        """
+        Saves the current configuration to disk
+
+        @param path: relative path to configuration. The absolute path
+        will be calculated depending on the platform.
+        @type path: list
+
+        @return: True if saved to disk correctly, False otherwise
+        """
+        config_path = os.path.join(self.get_path_prefix(), *(path_list[:-1]))
+        try:
+            os.makedirs(config_path)
+        except OSError as e:
+            if e.errno == errno.EEXIST and os.path.isdir(config_path):
+                pass
+            else:
+                raise
+
+        try:
+            self._config_checker.serialize(os.path.join(config_path,
+                                                        path_list[-1]))
+        except Exception as e:
+            logger.warning("%s" % (e,))
+            raise
+        return True
+
+    def load(self, path="", data=None):
+        """
+        Loads the configuration from disk
+
+        @type path: str
+        @param path: relative path to configuration. The absolute path
+        will be calculated depending on the platform
+
+        @return: True if loaded to disk correctly, False otherwise
+        """
+
+        # TODO: retrieve standalone option from app-level config
+        config_path = os.path.join(self.get_path_prefix(),
+                                   path)
+
+        self._config_checker = PluggableConfig(format="json")
+        self._config_checker.options = copy.deepcopy(self._get_spec())
+
+        try:
+            if data is None:
+                self._config_checker.load(fromfile=config_path)
+            else:
+                self._config_checker.load(data)
+        except Exception as e:
+            logger.warning("Something went wrong while loading " +
+                           "the config from %s\n%s" % (config_path, e))
+            self._config_checker = None
+            return False
+        return True
+
+
+class LocalizedKey(object):
+    """
+    Decorator used for keys that are localized in a configuration
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, func, **kwargs):
+        self._func = func
+
+    def __call__(self, instance, lang="en"):
+        """
+        Tries to return the string for the specified language, otherwise
+        informs the problem and returns an empty string
+
+        @param lang: language code
+        @param type: str
+
+        @return: localized value from the possible values returned by
+        self._func
+        """
+        descriptions = self._func(instance)
+        description_lang = ""
+        if lang in descriptions.keys():
+            description_lang = descriptions[lang]
+        else:
+            logger.warning("Unknown language: %s" % (lang,))
+        return description_lang
+
+    def __get__(self, instance, instancetype):
+        """
+        Implement the descriptor protocol to make decorating instance
+        method possible.
+        """
+        # Return a partial function with the first argument is the instance
+        # of the class decorated.
+        return functools.partial(self.__call__, instance)
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    try:
+        config = BaseConfig()  # should throw TypeError for _get_spec
+    except Exception as e:
+        assert isinstance(e, TypeError), "Something went wrong"
+        print "Abstract BaseConfig class is working as expected"