"""Replacement for ``django.template.loader`` that uses Jinja 2.

The module provides a generic way to load templates from an arbitrary
backend storage (e.g. filesystem, database).
"""

from coffin.template import Template as CoffinTemplate
from jinja2 import TemplateNotFound


def find_template_source(name, dirs=None):
    # This is Django's most basic loading function through which
    # all template retrievals go. Not sure if Jinja 2 publishes
    # an equivalent, but no matter, it mostly for internal use
    # anyway - developers will want to start with
    # ``get_template()`` or ``get_template_from_string`` anyway.
    raise NotImplementedError()


def get_template(template_name):
    # Jinja will handle this for us, and env also initializes
    # the loader backends the first time it is called.
    from coffin.common import env
    return env.get_template(template_name)


def get_template_from_string(source):
    """
    Does not support then ``name`` and ``origin`` parameters from
    the Django version.
    """
    from coffin.common import env
    return env.from_string(source)


def render_to_string(template_name, dictionary=None, context_instance=None):
    """Loads the given ``template_name`` and renders it with the given
    dictionary as context. The ``template_name`` may be a string to load
    a single template using ``get_template``, or it may be a tuple to use
    ``select_template`` to find one of the templates in the list.

    ``dictionary`` may also be Django ``Context`` object.

    Returns a string.
    """
    dictionary = dictionary or {}
    if isinstance(template_name, (list, tuple)):
        template = select_template(template_name)
    else:
        template = get_template(template_name)
    if context_instance:
        context_instance.update(dictionary)
    else:
        context_instance = dictionary
    return template.render(context_instance)


def select_template(template_name_list):
    "Given a list of template names, returns the first that can be loaded."
    for template_name in template_name_list:
        try:
            return get_template(template_name)
        except TemplateNotFound:
            continue
    # If we get here, none of the templates could be loaded
    raise TemplateNotFound(', '.join(template_name_list))