From 993aec0b17086cc4681fbf234aa19f4710fff441 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arun Isaac
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2022 00:30:03 +0530
Subject: issue: Add serialization and deserialization functions.

* tissue/issue.scm (date->iso-8601, iso-8601->date): New functions.
(issue->alist, post->alist, alist->issue, alist->post): New public
functions.
---
 tissue/issue.scm | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tissue/issue.scm b/tissue/issue.scm
index 8f36d94..3b6c015 100644
--- a/tissue/issue.scm
+++ b/tissue/issue.scm
@@ -48,6 +48,10 @@
             post
             post-author
             post-date
+            issue->alist
+            alist->issue
+            post->alist
+            alist->post
             authors
             issues))
 
@@ -81,6 +85,57 @@
   (author post-author)
   (date post-date))
 
+(define (date->iso-8601 date)
+  "Convert DATE, an SRFI-19 date object, to an ISO-8601 date string."
+  (date->string date "~4"))
+
+(define (iso-8601->date str)
+  "Convert STR, an ISO-8601 date string, to an SRFI-19 date object."
+  (string->date str "~Y-~m-~dT~H:~M:~S~z"))
+
+(define (issue->alist issue)
+  "Convert ISSUE, a <issue> object, to an association list that can be
+serialized."
+  `((file . ,(issue-file issue))
+    (title . ,(issue-title issue))
+    (creator . ,(issue-creator issue))
+    (created-date . ,(date->iso-8601 (issue-created-date issue)))
+    (last-updater . ,(issue-last-updater issue))
+    (last-updated-date . ,(date->iso-8601 (issue-last-updated-date issue)))
+    (assigned . ,(issue-assigned issue))
+    (keywords . ,(issue-keywords issue))
+    (open . ,(issue-open? issue))
+    (tasks . ,(issue-tasks issue))
+    (completed-tasks . , (issue-completed-tasks issue))
+    (posts . ,(map post->alist (issue-posts issue)))))
+
+(define (post->alist post)
+  "Convert POST, a <post> object, to an association list that can be
+serialized."
+  `((author . ,(post-author post))
+    (date . ,(date->iso-8601 (post-date post)))))
+
+(define (alist->issue alist)
+  "Convert ALIST to an <issue> object."
+  (issue (assq-ref alist 'file)
+         (assq-ref alist 'title)
+         (assq-ref alist 'creator)
+         (iso-8601->date (assq-ref alist 'created-date))
+         (assq-ref alist 'last-updater)
+         (iso-8601->date (assq-ref alist 'last-updated-date))
+         (assq-ref alist 'assigned)
+         (assq-ref alist 'keywords)
+         (assq-ref alist 'open)
+         (assq-ref alist 'tasks)
+         (assq-ref alist 'completed-tasks)
+         (map alist->post
+              (assq-ref alist 'posts))))
+
+(define (alist->post alist)
+  "Convert ALIST to a <post> object."
+  (post (assq-ref alist 'author)
+        (iso-8601->date (assq-ref alist 'date))))
+
 (define (hashtable-append! hashtable key new-values)
   "Append NEW-VALUES to the list of values KEY is associated to in
 HASHTABLE. Deduplicate the resulting list if necessary. If KEY is not
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