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Library Management for Small Users

Introduction

CLOSED: [2016-04-16 Sat 15:15]

As a person who has a lot of books, I like to be able to keep track of them. I've tried other pre-built solutions, but they've been flaky and don't do well for the types of books I have. I've also tried to use basic spreadsheets, but in the end, they've not been able to keep up with my desire to search through or produce reports. So, when I stumbled on GNU recutils, I decided that building a script around it would be useful. This is the script and system.

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File Format

CLOSED: [2016-10-26 Wed 18:02]

The following defines the format of book records, which are used to describe each individual book in the library. A record contains the following:

ID

an integer, automatically generated by the system.

Title

A string, at most, one line long.

Author

A string, in the format of Last, First && Second Last, First.

LCCN

A string, being the LOC Classification of the given book.

ISBN

A string, made up of the numbers 0-9, with an optional "X" at the end.

Publisher

A string, generally unformatted.

Copyright

An integer, the year the book was published, or the copyright, whichever is later.

Location

A string denoting where the book is located.

Withdrawn

An optional timestamp denoting when a book was withdrawn from the library.

Inserted

A timestamp representing when the book was inserted into the library, this is automatically generated.

LoanTo

A string, who the book is currently loaned to. Non-existent if not on loan.

LoanOn

A timestamp, when the book was loaned. Non-existent if not on loan.

  # -*- mode: rec -*-

  %rec: Book
  %doc: Foo
  %key: ID
  %unique: Title
  %type: ID int
  %type: Title line
  %type: Author line
  %type: LCCN line
  %type: ISBN regexp /[0-9]*X?/
  %type: Publisher line
  %type: Copyright int
  %type: Location line
  %type: Withdrawn date
  %type: Inserted date
  %type: LoanTo line
  %type: LoanOn date
  %mandatory: Title Author LCCN Inserted
  %allowed: ISBN Publisher Copyright Location Withdrawn LoanTo LoanOn
  %auto: ID Inserted

Initialize

CLOSED: [2016-10-23 Sun 15:01]

The initialization of the database is accomplished by creating the containing directory, and within it, creating the database file, which defines the structure of the database. If git is to be initialized for the database, this must be done manually.

  function initialize {
      OLD=`pwd`
      mkdir -p ${LIBRARYDIRECTORY}
      cd ${LIBRARYDIRECTORY}
      [[ -ne `basename ${LIBRARYFILE}` ]] && \
          cat <<EOF > `basename ${LIBRARYFILE}`
  <<file-format>>
  EOF
  }

Handle Git

CLOSED: [2016-10-23 Sun 15:06]

This handles git as needed, by first checking to see if the first argument is init, and if so, initializing the library directory as a repository. Otherwise, if the GIT variable is detect, it runs the specified git command within the library directory if possible.

  function do-git {
      if [[ $# -lt 1 ]] ; then
          echo "library git args*"
          exit 1
      fi
      FIRST=$1
      if [[ $FIRST == "init" ]] ; then
          OLD=`pwd`
          cd ${LIBRARYDIRECTORY}
          git $@
          cd ${OLD}
      else
          if [[ $GIT == "detect" ]] ; then
              OLD=`pwd`
              cd ${LIBRARYDIRECTORY}
              git $@
              cd ${OLD}
          fi
      fi
  }

WORKING Run Queries

  function run-query {
      recsel -t Book $@ ${LIBRARYFILE}
  }

WORKING Add Book

  function add-single {
      echo -n "Title: "
      read TITLE
      echo -n "Author: "
      read AUTHOR
      echo -n "LCCN: "
      read LCCN
      echo -n "Copyright: "
      read COPYRIGHT
      echo -n "Publisher: "
      read PUBLISHER
      echo -n "ISBN: "
      read ISBN
      echo -n "Location: "
      read LOCATION
      recins -t Book \
             -f Title -v "${TITLE}" \
             -f Author -v "${AUTHOR}" \
             -f LCCN -v "${LCCN}" \
             -f Copyright -v "${COPYRIGHT}" \
             -f Publisher -v "${PUBLISHER}" \
             -f ISBN -v "${ISBN}" \
             -f Location -v "${LOCATION}" \
             ${LIBRARYFILE}
      do-git add `basename ${LIBRARYFILE}`
      do-git commit -m "Added record for \"${TITLE}\""
  }

WORKING Add Books in Bulk

  function bulk-add {
      if [[ $@ -lt 1 ]] ; then
          echo "library bulk-add number"
          exit 1
      fi
      GITOLD=${GIT}
      GIT=FALSE
      for i in {1..$1} ; do
          echo "Adding book number ${i}"
          add-single
      done
      GIT=${GITOLD}
      do-git add `basename ${LIBRARYFILE}`
      do-git commit -m "Added ${1} records"
  }

WORKING View the File in Emacs with Rec Mode

  function view-in-emacs {
      emacsclient --alternate-editor="" -n ${LIBRARYFILE}
  }

WORKING Handle Reporting

  function do-report {
      if [[ $# -lt 1 ]] ; then
          echo "library report name args*"
          exit 1
      fi
      NAME=$1
      shift
      case ${NAME} in
          list)
              for report in ${LIBRARYDIRECTORY}/*.report ;
              do
                  echo " - $(basename -- ${report} .report)"
              done
          ;;
          new)
              if [[ $# -lt 1 ]] ; then
                  echo "library report new name"
                  exit 1
              fi
              REPORT=$1
              shift
              echo "# -*- mode: shell-script -*-" > ${LIBRARYDIRECTORY}/${REPORT}.report
              emacsclient --alternate-editor="" -n ${LIBRARYDIRECTORY}/${REPORT}.report
          ;;
          ,*)
              if [[ -e ${LIBRARYDIRECTORY}/${NAME}.report ]] ; then
                 sh ${LIBRARYDIRECTORY}/${NAME}.report $@
              fi
      esac
  }

WORKING Edit Field

  function do-edit {
      if [[ $# -lt 2 ]] ; then
          echo "ledger edit id field [ value ]"
          exit 1
      fi
      ID=$1
      shift
      FIELD=$1
      shift

      if [[ $FIELD = "Withdrawn" ]] ; then
          recset -e "ID = ${ID}" \
                 -f "Withdrawn" -S "`date +"%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z"`" \
                 ${LIBRARYFILE}
      else
          VALUE=$1
          shift
          recset -e "ID = ${ID}" \
                 -f "${FIELD}" -s "${VALUE}" \
                 ${LIBRARYFILE}
      fi
      do-git add `basename ${LIBRARYFILE}`
      do-git commit -m "Edited record id ${ID}"
  }

WORKING Loan

  function do-loan {
      if [[ $# -lt 2 ]] ; then
          echo "library loan id name"
          exit 1
      fi

      ID=$1
      shift
      NAME=$1
      shift

      recset -e "ID = ${ID}" \
             -f "LoanTo" -S "${NAME}" \
             ${LIBRARYFILE}
      recset -e "ID = ${ID}" \
             -f "LoanOn" -S "`date +"%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z"`" \
             ${LIBRARYFILE}
      do-git add `basename ${LIBRARYFILE}`
      do-git commit -m "Loaned Book ${ID} to ${NAME}"
  }

  function do-return {
      if [[ $# -lt 1 ]] ; then
          echo "library return-book id"
          exit 1
      fi

      ID=$1
      shift

      recset -e "ID = ${ID}" \
             -f "LoanTo" -d \
             ${LIBRARYFILE}
      recset -e "ID = ${ID}" \
             -f "LoanOn" -d \
             ${LIBRARYFILE}

      do-git add `basename ${LIBRARYFILE}`
      do-git commit -m "Returned Book ${ID}"
  }

WORKING Help Message

  if [[ $# -eq 0 ]] ; then
      echo "library [ help | query | add | emacs | git | bulk-add | report | edit | loan | do-return | init ]"
      exit
  fi

  function display-help {
      cat <<EOF
  library [ help | query | add | emacs | git | bulk-add | report | edit | loan | do-return | init ]

  help:       Display this help message.
  query:      Query Library Database.
  add:        Add a singular book record.
  emacs:      View records in emacs.
  git:        Run a git command.
  bulk-add:   Add a specified number of records.
  report:     Run a report.
  edit:       Edit the value of a specified field in a specified record.
  loan:       Loan a book out.
  do-return:  Process a book return
  init:       Initialize the database.
  EOF
  }

WORKING Process Commands

  COMMAND=$1
  shift

  case ${COMMAND} in
      help)
          display-help
          exit
          ;;
      query)
          run-query $@
          exit
          ;;
      add)
          add-single
          exit
          ;;
      git)
          do-git $@
          exit
          ;;
      bulk-add)
          bulk-add $@
          exit
          ;;
      report)
          do-report $@
          exit
          ;;
      emacs)
          view-in-emacs
          exit
          ;;
      edit)
          do-edit $@
          exit
          ;;
      loan)
           do-loan $@
           exit
           ;;
      return-book)
          do-return $@
          exit
          ;;
      init)
          initialize
          exit
          ;;
      ,*)
          display-help
          exit
  esac

Packaging

CLOSED: [2016-04-16 Sat 15:20]

Finally, this is what puts the application together. Placing each function in its place, making sure that everything is included is done here, fairly simply, by referencing the code block and being expanded here.

  LIBRARYFILE=~/.library/library.rec
  LIBRARYDIRECTORY=~/.library
  GIT=detect

  <<help-message>>

  <<handle-reports>>

  <<handle-git>>

  <<handle-query>>

  <<add-book>>

  <<add-in-bulk>>

  <<edit-field>>

  <<initialize-database>>

  <<view-in-emacs>>

  <<loan>>

  <<process-commands>>