Add a tool to transform dictionaries

1 files changed, 29 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/generator.c b/src/generator.c
index 9f6be9b..25c8e43 100644
--- a/src/generator.c
+++ b/src/generator.c
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /*
  * generator.c: dictionary generator
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2013, Přemysl Eric Janouch <p@janouch.name>
+ * Copyright (c) 2013 - 2020, Přemysl Eric Janouch <p@janouch.name>
  *
  * Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any
  * purpose with or without fee is hereby granted.
@@ -170,6 +170,34 @@ generator_write_string (Generator *self,
 	return TRUE;
 }
 
+/// Write a list of data fields back to a dictionary.  The list has to be
+/// acceptable for the generated dictionary's sametypesequence (or lack of).
+gboolean
+generator_write_fields (Generator *self, const GList *fields, GError **error)
+{
+	gboolean sts = self->info->same_type_sequence != NULL;
+	while (fields)
+	{
+		StardictEntryField *field = fields->data;
+		if (!sts && !generator_write_type (self, field->type, error))
+			return FALSE;
+
+		gboolean mark_end = !sts || fields->next != NULL;
+		if (g_ascii_islower (field->type))
+		{
+			if (!generator_write_string (self,
+				field->data, mark_end, error))
+				return FALSE;
+		}
+		else if (!generator_write_raw (self,
+			field->data, field->data_size, mark_end, error))
+			return FALSE;
+
+		fields = fields->next;
+	}
+	return TRUE;
+}
+
 /// Finishes the current entry and writes it into the index.
 gboolean
 generator_finish_entry (Generator *self, const gchar *word, GError **error)