From 84306dcca08cddb61f716085f5f0768311be0354 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kuba Orlik <kontakt@kuba-orlik.name>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2023 21:20:17 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Simplify syntax by a lot

---
 README.md         | 47 ++++++++++++++---------------------------------
 SimpleProcess.js  | 12 ++++++++++++
 SimpleProcess.qml | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 SimpleProcess.js
 create mode 100644 SimpleProcess.qml

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a0f83a5..2e8998a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 Inspired by http://www.xargs.com/qml/process.html
 
+## Setup
+
 Add to project.pro:
 
 ```
@@ -17,38 +19,17 @@ Add to main.cpp
 qmlRegisterType<Process>("Process", 1, 0, "Process");
 ```
 
-Use in QML:
+also, add the `SimpleProcess.qml` and `SimpleProcess.js` files to your
+project.
 
-```
-import Process 1.0
-
-# ...
-
-    Component.onCompleted: {
-      process.start("some-bin", ["some args"])
-    }
-
-
-    Text {
-        id: output
-        x: 0
-        y: 0
-        text: ""
-    }
-
-
-    Process {
-        id: process
-        //onReadyRead: {output.text += readAll();output.text += readAllStandardOutput();}
-        onReadyReadStandardError: {output.text += readAllStandardError();}
-        onFinished: {
-            console.log("finished", exitCode)
-            output.text += exitCode.toString()
-            console.log(readAllStandardError());
-        }
-        onErrorOccurred: {
-            console.log("error!");
-            output.text += readAllStandardError()
-        }
-    }
+The simplest way to use it is to call the `callProcess` function:
+
+```js
+import "SimpleProcess.js" as SimpleProcess
+
+Item {
+     Component.onCompleted {
+           SimpleProcess.callProcess("echo", ["Hello",  "World"], (_, stdout)=>console.log(stdout))
+     }
+}
 ```
diff --git a/SimpleProcess.js b/SimpleProcess.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d0c0d6c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/SimpleProcess.js
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+function callProcess(binary, arguments, callback) {
+  const component = Qt.createComponent("SimpleProcess.qml");
+  if (component.status != Component.Ready) {
+    if (component.status == Component.Error) {
+      console.debug("Error:" + component.errorString());
+    }
+    throw new Error("Error:" + component.errorString());
+  }
+  const process = component.createObject(parent, {});
+  process.onHasFinished.connect(callback);
+  process.run(binary, arguments);
+}
diff --git a/SimpleProcess.qml b/SimpleProcess.qml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..74cc190
--- /dev/null
+++ b/SimpleProcess.qml
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+import QtQuick 2.0
+import Process 1.0
+
+Process {
+    property string binary
+    property variant arguments
+
+    signal hasFinished(exitCode: int, stdout: string, stderr: string)
+    signal hasSuccess(stdout: string, stderr: string)
+    signal hasError(exitCode: int, stdout: string, stderr: string)
+    signal stdout(stdout_chunk: string)
+    signal stderr(stderr_chunk: string)
+
+    property string entire_stdout: ""
+    property string entire_stderr: ""
+
+    id: process
+
+    function run(_binary: string, _arguments: variant){
+        if(typeof _arguments == "string"){
+            _arguments = [_arguments]
+        }
+        binary = _binary
+        arguments = _arguments
+        process.start(binary, arguments)
+    }
+
+    onReadyRead: {
+        let stdout_chunk = readAllStandardOutput()
+        entire_stdout += stdout_chunk
+        process.stdout(stdout_chunk)
+    }
+
+    onFinished: {
+        entire_stderr = readAllStandardError()
+        if (exitCode === 0) {
+            process.hasSuccess(entire_stdout, entire_stderr)
+        } else {
+            process.hasError(exitCode, entire_stdout, entire_stderr)
+        }
+        process.hasFinished(exitCode, entire_stdout, entire_stderr)
+    }
+}