Merge pull request #11 from martensitingale/master

don't spawn a subprocess to parse dates

meson.build

@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ executable(
     'src/AccountManager.vala',
     'src/NetManager.vala',
     'src/Utils.vala',
-    'src/CmdRunner.vala',
     'src/Notificator.vala',
     'src/API/Account.vala',
     'src/API/Relationship.vala',

po/POTFILES

@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ src/SettingsManager.vala
 src/AccountManager.vala
 src/NetManager.vala
 src/Utils.vala
-src/CmdRunner.vala
 src/API/StatusVisibility.vala
 src/API/NotificationType.vala
 src/API/Attachment.vala

src/CmdRunner.vala

@@ -1,91 +0,0 @@
-public class Tootle.CmdRunner : GLib.Object{
-
-    public signal void done(int exit);
-    public signal void output_changed(string text);
-    public signal void standard_changed(string text);
-    public signal void error_changed(string text);
-
-    public string standard_output_str = "";
-    public string error_output_str = "";
-    public string output_str = "";
-    
-    GLib.IOChannel out_make;
-    GLib.IOChannel error_out;
-    string dir;
-    string command;
-    Pid pid;
-
-    public CmdRunner(string dir, string command){
-        this.dir = dir;
-        this.command = command;
-    }
-
-    public void run(){
-        int standard_output = 0;
-        int standard_error = 0;
-        try{
-        Process.spawn_async_with_pipes(dir,
-                                       command.split(" "),
-                                       null,
-                                       SpawnFlags.DO_NOT_REAP_CHILD,
-                                       null,
-                                       out pid,
-                                       null,
-                                       out standard_output,
-                                       out standard_error);
-        }
-        catch(Error e){
-            critical("Couldn't launch command %s in the directory %s: %s", command, dir, e.message);
-        }
-        
-        ChildWatch.add(pid, (pid, exit) => {
-            Process.close_pid (pid);
-            error_out.shutdown (false);
-            out_make.shutdown (false);
-            done(exit);
-        });
-
-        out_make = new GLib.IOChannel.unix_new(standard_output);
-        out_make.add_watch(IOCondition.IN | IOCondition.HUP, (source, condition) => {
-            if(condition == IOCondition.HUP){
-                return false;
-            }
-            string output = null;
-            
-            try{
-                out_make.read_line(out output, null, null);
-            }
-            catch(Error e){
-                critical("Error in the output retrieving of %s: %s", command, e.message);
-            }
-
-            standard_output_str += output;
-            output_str += output;
-            standard_changed(output);
-            output_changed(output);
-            
-            return true;
-        });
-
-        error_out = new GLib.IOChannel.unix_new(standard_error);
-        error_out.add_watch(IOCondition.IN | IOCondition.HUP, (source, condition) => {
-            if(condition == IOCondition.HUP){
-                return false;
-            }
-            string output = null;
-            try{
-                error_out.read_line(out output, null, null);
-            }
-            catch(Error e){
-                critical("Error in the output retrieving of %s: %s", command, e.message);
-            }
-            
-            error_output_str += output;
-            output_str += output;
-            error_changed(output);
-            output_changed(output);
-            
-            return true;
-        });
-    }
-}

src/Widgets/StatusWidget.vala

@@ -199,7 +199,9 @@ public class Tootle.StatusWidget : Gtk.EventBox {
         title_acct.label = "@" + formal.account.acct;
         content_label.label = formal.content;
         content_label.mentions = formal.mentions;
-        parse_date_iso8601 (formal.created_at);
+        
+        var datetime = parse_date_iso8601 (formal.created_at);
+        title_date.label = Granite.DateTime.get_relative_datetime (datetime);
         
         reblogs.label = formal.reblogs_count.to_string ();
         favorites.label = formal.favourites_count.to_string ();
@@ -224,17 +226,12 @@ public class Tootle.StatusWidget : Gtk.EventBox {
         return status.get_formal ().spoiler_text != null || status.get_formal ().sensitive;
     }
     
-    // elementary OS has old GLib, so I have to improvise
-    // Version >=2.56 provides DateTime.from_iso8601
-    public void parse_date_iso8601 (string date) {
-        var cmd = "date -d " + date + " +%s";
-        var runner = new CmdRunner ("/bin/", cmd); //Workaround for Granite SimpleCommand pipes bug
-        runner.done.connect (exit => {
-            date_utc = int64.parse (runner.standard_output_str);
-            var date_obj = new GLib.DateTime.from_unix_local (date_utc);
-            title_date.label = Granite.DateTime.get_relative_datetime (date_obj);
-        });
-        runner.run ();
+    private GLib.DateTime? parse_date_iso8601 (string date) {
+        var timeval = GLib.TimeVal();
+        if (timeval.from_iso8601 (date)) {
+            return new GLib.DateTime.from_timeval_local (timeval);
+        }
+        return null;
     }
     
     public bool on_avatar_clicked () {