Started work on Ember

storage/appdata_storage.py

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+import appdirs
+import os
+from configparser import ConfigParser
+import csv
+
+from properties import config
+
+class AppDataStorage(object):
+
+    SETTINGS_FILE = "config.ini"
+    RECENT_PROJECTS_FILE = "recent.cfg"
+    RECENT_PROJECTS_FIELDS = ["path", "name", "date", "pinned"]
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.__appDataPath = appdirs.user_data_dir(config.APP_NAME, config.APP_AUTHOR_SHORT, config.APP_VERSION)
+        self.__settingsPath = os.path.join(self.__appDataPath, AppDataStorage.SETTINGS_FILE)
+        self.__recentProjectsPath = os.path.join(self.__appDataPath, AppDataStorage.RECENT_PROJECTS_FILE)
+
+    # make missing dirs in path
+    def __createPath(self, path):
+        dir = os.path.dirname(path)
+        os.makedirs(dir, exist_ok=True)
+
+    def readSettings(self):
+        if (os.path.exists(self.__settingsPath)):
+            parser = ConfigParser()
+            parser.read(self.__settingsPath)
+            # todo: finish this
+
+    def writeSettings(self, settings):
+        pass # todo: finish this
+
+    def readRecentProjects(self):
+        if (os.path.exists(self.__recentProjectsPath)):
+            with open(self.__recentProjectsPath, 'rb') as recentProjectsFile:
+                csvreader = csv.DictReader(recentProjectsFile, fieldnames=AppDataStorage.RECENT_PROJECTS_FIELDS)
+                for row in csvreader:
+                    yield row
+
+    def writeRecentProjects(self, items):
+        self.__createPath(self.__recentProjectsPath)
+        with open(self.__recentProjectsPath, 'wb') as recentProjectsFile:
+            csvwriter = csv.DictWriter(recentProjectsFile, AppDataStorage.RECENT_PROJECTS_FIELDS)
+            csvwriter.writerows(items)