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package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"io/ioutil"
	"log"
	"os"
	"strconv"
)

// loadState loads the state from the config file
func loadState(config config) error {
	stateFilePath := config.stateFile

	// try to read the statefile
	buf, err := os.Open(stateFilePath)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("Could not read the/a stateFile: %s", err)
	}

	defer buf.Close()

	// Read the files content
	content, err := ioutil.ReadAll(buf)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("Could not read the stateFiles content: %s", err)
	}

	// Apply the state by setting the metricsNumPasswords value accordingly
	// This parses the statefile (which is supposed to only contain one line).
	// The newline is stripped manually.
	metricsNumPasswords, err = strconv.Atoi(string(content)[:len(content)-1])
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("Could not parse the statefiles content: %s", err)
	}

	// If all went well, return no error
	log.Printf("Statefile successfully loaded")
	return nil
}

// WriteStateToFile writse the state (amount of hits) to a file
func WriteStateToFile(config config) error {
	stateFilePath := config.stateFile

	// create the statefile
	buf, err := os.Create(stateFilePath)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("could not create a statefile at %s: %s", stateFilePath, err)
	}
	defer buf.Close()

	// write the state to the file
	_, err = buf.WriteString(string(fmt.Sprintf("%d", metricsNumPasswords)))
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("could not write the state to %s, %s", stateFilePath, err)
	}

	// If all went well, return no error
	log.Printf("Statefile successfully written to %s", stateFilePath)
	return nil
}