lex-babel 0.19.2

Format conversion library for the lex format
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use super::formatting_rules::FormattingRules;
use lex_core::lex::ast::{
    elements::{
        blank_line_group::BlankLineGroup, paragraph::TextLine, sequence_marker::Form,
        verbatim::VerbatimGroupItemRef, VerbatimLine,
    },
    traits::{AstNode, Visitor},
    Annotation, ContentItem, Definition, Document, DocumentTitle, List, ListItem, Paragraph,
    Session, Table, Verbatim,
};

use lex_core::lex::assembling::stages::normalize_labels::source_spelling;
use lex_core::lex::ast::elements::sequence_marker::DecorationStyle;
use lex_core::lex::lexing::line_classification::escape_session_title_marker_guard;
use std::borrow::Cow;

mod numbering;
mod tables;

use super::separation::{min_blank_lines, BlockKind};
use numbering::format_marker_index;
use tables::emit_pipe_table;

#[cfg(test)]
mod tests;

struct ListContext {
    index: usize,
    style: DecorationStyle,
    upper_case: bool,
    marker_form: Option<Form>,
}

pub struct LexSerializer {
    rules: FormattingRules,
    output: String,
    indent_level: usize,
    consecutive_newlines: usize,
    list_stack: Vec<ListContext>,
    /// Footnote lists already emitted inside their table block (lex#684). Their
    /// second, accept-driven walk must produce no output; see `suppress_output`.
    emitted_footnote_lists: Vec<*const List>,
    /// While > 0, `write_line` / `ensure_blank_lines` are no-ops. Used to swallow
    /// the redundant accept-driven walk of a table's footnote list without
    /// unbalancing the list stack — the visit still runs, only output is muted.
    suppress_output: usize,
    /// Structural block separation state (ADR-0001): one entry per open sibling
    /// scope (document body, session body, list-item body, …), holding the kind
    /// of the last sibling Block emitted at that level, or `None` before the
    /// first. `separate_before` consults the separation matrix against it to emit
    /// the grammar-mandated blank lines between adjacent blocks.
    sibling_levels: Vec<Option<BlockKind>>,
    /// The Paragraph whose first line was hoisted onto a list item's marker line
    /// (lex#798). A foreign reader (comrak) builds every list item as
    /// `{ text: "", children: [Paragraph, …] }`; that empty-text shape would
    /// serialize to the loose `-\n    body` form, which lex-core does NOT
    /// re-parse as a list (it reads the bare `-` as prose and collapses the whole
    /// list to a paragraph). `visit_list_item` instead emits the leading
    /// paragraph's first line as the tight `- text` item, records that paragraph
    /// here, and `visit_paragraph` skips re-emitting its first line.
    hoisted_paragraph: Option<*const Paragraph>,
    /// Set when `visit_paragraph` recognizes the hoisted paragraph, consumed by
    /// the next `visit_text_line` to drop the already-hoisted first line.
    skip_paragraph_first_line: bool,
}

impl LexSerializer {
    pub fn new(rules: FormattingRules) -> Self {
        Self {
            rules,
            output: String::new(),
            indent_level: 0,
            consecutive_newlines: 2, // Start as if we have blank lines
            list_stack: Vec::new(),
            emitted_footnote_lists: Vec::new(),
            suppress_output: 0,
            sibling_levels: Vec::new(),
            hoisted_paragraph: None,
            skip_paragraph_first_line: false,
        }
    }

    pub fn serialize(mut self, doc: &Document) -> Result<String, String> {
        match &doc.title {
            // The title is a first-class node parked outside the body stream
            // (`doc.title`), but leading document-level annotations were woven
            // back into `doc.root.children` in source order by
            // `inline_attached_annotations`. Emitting the title unconditionally
            // first would hoist it ahead of any annotation authored before it,
            // reordering the document head on serialize (lex#791). Instead, emit
            // the title at its own source position: the root children whose
            // source line precedes the title come first, then the title, then the
            // rest. A reader-built AST (Markdown, RFC-XML, …) has no real source
            // lines — every node shares the default line 0 — so the title lands at
            // the head there, as before.
            Some(title) => {
                let title_line = title.location.start.line;
                let children = &doc.root.children;
                let split = children
                    .iter()
                    .position(|c| c.range().start.line >= title_line)
                    .unwrap_or(children.len());

                self.visit_session(&doc.root);
                for child in &children[..split] {
                    child.accept(&mut self);
                }
                self.emit_document_title(title, split < children.len());
                for child in &children[split..] {
                    child.accept(&mut self);
                }
                self.leave_session(&doc.root);
            }
            None => doc.root.accept(&mut self),
        }

        // Normalize trailing blank lines to a single newline unless configured
        // to preserve them. Block elements (annotations, verbatim) can leave a
        // structural trailing blank when they are the last node; trimming here
        // keeps the document tail idempotent.
        if !self.rules.preserve_trailing_blanks {
            let end = self.output.trim_end_matches('\n').len();
            self.output.truncate(end);
            if !self.output.is_empty() {
                self.output.push('\n');
            }
        }
        Ok(self.output)
    }

    /// Emit the document title (and optional subtitle) as its own head block.
    ///
    /// `has_following` says whether any body sibling comes after the title in
    /// source order; when true a blank line must separate the title from it,
    /// otherwise the first body line is absorbed into the title on reparse
    /// (lex#687). The title opens with a plain line, so it separates from any
    /// preceding sibling exactly like a `Session` title — `separate_before`
    /// supplies the leading blank (a no-op when the title is at the document
    /// head), so a leading document-level annotation stays above the title
    /// (lex#791).
    fn emit_document_title(&mut self, title: &DocumentTitle, has_following: bool) {
        self.separate_before(BlockKind::Session);
        if title.subtitle.is_some() {
            // Title with subtitle: "Title:\nSubtitle\n"
            self.output.push_str(title.as_str());
            self.output.push_str(":\n");
        } else {
            self.output.push_str(title.as_str());
            self.output.push('\n');
        }
        if let Some(subtitle) = title.subtitle_str() {
            self.output.push_str(subtitle);
            self.output.push('\n');
        }
        self.consecutive_newlines = 1;
        if has_following {
            self.ensure_blank_lines(1);
        }
    }

    fn indent(&self) -> String {
        self.rules.indent_string.repeat(self.indent_level)
    }

    pub(super) fn write_line(&mut self, text: &str) {
        if self.suppress_output > 0 {
            return;
        }
        self.output.push_str(&self.indent());
        self.output.push_str(text);
        self.output.push('\n');
        self.consecutive_newlines = 1;
    }

    /// Build an extended marker from the full list stack hierarchy.
    /// Each level contributes its index formatted according to its marker type.
    /// Ancestor levels have already incremented their index, so use `index - 1`.
    /// The current (last) level has not yet incremented, so use `index` as-is.
    fn build_extended_marker(&self) -> String {
        let mut parts = Vec::new();
        let len = self.list_stack.len();
        for (i, ctx) in self.list_stack.iter().enumerate() {
            let idx = if i < len - 1 {
                // Ancestor: already incremented past current item
                ctx.index - 1
            } else {
                // Current level: not yet incremented
                ctx.index
            };
            parts.push(format_marker_index(ctx.style, ctx.upper_case, idx));
        }
        format!("{}.", parts.join("."))
    }

    /// Whether the most recently written line ended with a single `:` —
    /// i.e. a `Subject:`-style container opener (Definition subject,
    /// verbatim group subject, etc.). Used to decide whether to emit a
    /// blank line before a following verbatim subject: a blank line at
    /// column 0 between a Definition subject and its body would
    /// terminate the Definition, so the body's first verbatim must
    /// follow immediately. Annotation headers (`:: label ::` / `:: label`)
    /// end with `::` not a lone `:`, so this check correctly leaves them
    /// out — a verbatim after an annotation does want a leading blank.
    fn last_emission_ended_with_container_opener_colon(&self) -> bool {
        if self.consecutive_newlines != 1 {
            return false;
        }
        let trimmed = self.output.trim_end();
        trimmed.ends_with(':') && !trimmed.ends_with("::")
    }

    fn ensure_blank_lines(&mut self, count: usize) {
        if self.suppress_output > 0 {
            return;
        }
        let target_newlines = count + 1;
        while self.consecutive_newlines < target_newlines {
            self.output.push('\n');
            self.consecutive_newlines += 1;
        }
    }

    /// Open a fresh sibling scope for a container's body (document root, session
    /// body, list-item body, definition body, block-annotation body). Each block
    /// visited inside consults — and updates — the top scope via `separate_before`.
    fn enter_sibling_scope(&mut self) {
        self.sibling_levels.push(None);
    }

    /// Close the current sibling scope. Must pair with `enter_sibling_scope`.
    fn leave_sibling_scope(&mut self) {
        let popped = self.sibling_levels.pop();
        debug_assert!(
            popped.is_some(),
            "leave_sibling_scope without a matching enter_sibling_scope"
        );
    }

    /// Emit the structural separation the grammar requires before a sibling
    /// block of kind `next`, then record `next` as the current scope's last
    /// block. The blank count comes from the separation matrix
    /// (`min_blank_lines(prev, next)`) and is applied max-composing via
    /// `ensure_blank_lines`, so it never adds to a `BlankLineGroup` already
    /// emitted — it only tops it up to the structural minimum.
    ///
    /// No-op before the first block in a scope (`prev == None`), so a block at a
    /// container's start gets no leading blank, and outside any scope (the root
    /// session itself, whose own body scope is not yet open).
    fn separate_before(&mut self, next: BlockKind) {
        if self.suppress_output > 0 {
            return;
        }
        let prev = match self.sibling_levels.last_mut() {
            Some(slot) => slot.replace(next),
            None => return,
        };
        if let Some(prev) = prev {
            let min = min_blank_lines(prev, next);
            if min > 0 {
                self.ensure_blank_lines(min);
            }
        }
    }

    /// lex#798 helper: if the item's leading block is a *plain* Paragraph with a
    /// first text line, record it as the hoisted paragraph and return that first
    /// line (to become the tight `- text` marker-line text). Leading
    /// BlankLineGroups (which a reader would not emit, but which are harmless) are
    /// skipped. The recorded paragraph's first line is dropped by `visit_paragraph`
    /// / `visit_text_line` so it is not emitted twice.
    ///
    /// A paragraph carrying block annotations is NOT hoisted: hoisting bypasses
    /// its `visit_paragraph` body, and the Skeleton fold (`canon`) likewise only
    /// folds an unannotated leading paragraph — keeping the two decisions
    /// symmetric. (A Markdown-reader item never carries annotations; this is a
    /// defensive invariant, not a reachable path today.)
    fn hoist_leading_paragraph_line(&mut self, list_item: &ListItem) -> Option<String> {
        let first_block = list_item
            .children
            .iter()
            .find(|c| !matches!(c, ContentItem::BlankLineGroup(_)))?;
        let ContentItem::Paragraph(paragraph) = first_block else {
            return None;
        };
        if !paragraph.annotations.is_empty() {
            return None;
        }
        let first_line = paragraph.lines.iter().find_map(|line| match line {
            ContentItem::TextLine(tl) => Some(tl.text().trim_end().to_string()),
            _ => None,
        })?;
        self.hoisted_paragraph = Some(paragraph as *const Paragraph);
        Some(first_line)
    }
}

impl Visitor for LexSerializer {
    // The serializer rebuilds each table cell from its flat `content` (stacked
    // across pipe continuation rows by `emit_pipe_table`), so it must NOT also
    // walk the cells' structured `children` — doing so re-emitted that block
    // content as stranded document-level siblings after the table (lex#790).
    fn descend_into_table_cells(&mut self) -> bool {
        false
    }

    fn visit_session(&mut self, session: &Session) {
        self.separate_before(BlockKind::Session);
        let raw_title = session.title.as_string();
        if !raw_title.is_empty() {
            self.ensure_blank_lines(self.rules.session_blank_lines_before);
            // lex#795: a style-less session whose title text begins with a
            // marker-like token (`1. X`, `IV. X`, `(a) X`, …) must be escaped, or
            // it re-parses as a session WITH that sequence-marker style. A
            // genuinely marked session carries its marker in `session.marker` and
            // must keep its real marker unescaped.
            let title = if session.marker.is_none() {
                escape_session_title_marker_guard(raw_title)
            } else {
                Cow::Borrowed(raw_title)
            };
            self.write_line(&title);
            self.ensure_blank_lines(self.rules.session_blank_lines_after);
            self.indent_level += 1;
        }
        // The session's body is a fresh sibling scope. Opened for the root
        // session too (empty title), so document-level blocks are separated.
        self.enter_sibling_scope();
    }

    fn leave_session(&mut self, session: &Session) {
        self.leave_sibling_scope();
        if !session.title.as_string().is_empty() {
            self.indent_level -= 1;
        }
    }

    fn visit_paragraph(&mut self, paragraph: &Paragraph) {
        // lex#798: this paragraph's first line was hoisted onto the enclosing
        // list item's marker line. It is not a standalone sibling block, so skip
        // the separation blank and mark its first line to be dropped. Any
        // remaining lines still emit as the item's indented body.
        if self.hoisted_paragraph == Some(paragraph as *const Paragraph) {
            self.hoisted_paragraph = None;
            self.skip_paragraph_first_line = true;
            return;
        }
        // Paragraphs are handled by visiting TextLines; this hook only registers
        // the paragraph as a sibling block so the separation matrix can emit the
        // grammar-mandated blank before it (a reader-built AST has no
        // BlankLineGroup to lean on).
        self.separate_before(BlockKind::Paragraph);
        // TODO: Investigate why some paragraphs are skipped during traversal when indentation is mixed.
        // See: https://github.com/lex-project/lex/issues/new?title=Parser+drops+paragraphs+with+mixed+indentation
    }

    fn visit_text_line(&mut self, text_line: &TextLine) {
        // lex#798: drop the line already hoisted onto the list item's marker line.
        if self.skip_paragraph_first_line {
            self.skip_paragraph_first_line = false;
            return;
        }
        let text = text_line.text().trim_end();
        self.write_line(text);
    }

    fn visit_blank_line_group(&mut self, group: &BlankLineGroup) {
        if group.count == 0 {
            return;
        }

        let count = if self.rules.max_blank_lines > 0 {
            std::cmp::min(group.count, self.rules.max_blank_lines)
        } else {
            group.count
        };
        self.ensure_blank_lines(count);
    }

    fn visit_list(&mut self, list: &List) {
        // A table's footnote list is emitted once inside its block by
        // `visit_table`; its second, accept-driven walk must be muted (lex#684).
        // Enter suppression here (and stay in it for any nested lists) but still
        // push the context so `leave_list` stays balanced. This must happen
        // *before* `separate_before`, so the muted walk neither records itself
        // as the previous sibling nor emits structural blanks.
        if self.suppress_output > 0 || self.emitted_footnote_lists.contains(&(list as *const List))
        {
            self.suppress_output += 1;
        }

        self.separate_before(BlockKind::List);
        let (style, upper_case) = if let Some(marker) = &list.marker {
            let upper = marker.style == DecorationStyle::Alphabetical
                && marker
                    .as_str()
                    .chars()
                    .next()
                    .is_some_and(|c| c.is_uppercase());
            (marker.style, upper)
        } else {
            (DecorationStyle::Plain, false)
        };

        let marker_form = list.marker.as_ref().map(|marker| marker.form);

        self.list_stack.push(ListContext {
            style,
            upper_case,
            marker_form,
            index: 1,
        });
    }

    fn leave_list(&mut self, _list: &List) {
        self.list_stack.pop();
        if self.suppress_output > 0 {
            self.suppress_output -= 1;
        }
    }

    fn visit_list_item(&mut self, list_item: &ListItem) {
        let is_extended = self
            .list_stack
            .iter()
            .any(|ctx| matches!(ctx.marker_form, Some(Form::Extended)));

        let marker = if self.rules.normalize_seq_markers {
            if is_extended {
                // Build hierarchical prefix from the full list stack
                self.build_extended_marker()
            } else {
                let context = self
                    .list_stack
                    .last()
                    .expect("List stack empty in list item");
                if context.style == DecorationStyle::Plain {
                    self.rules.unordered_seq_marker.to_string()
                } else {
                    format!(
                        "{}.",
                        format_marker_index(context.style, context.upper_case, context.index)
                    )
                }
            }
        } else {
            list_item.marker.as_string().to_string()
        };

        let context = self
            .list_stack
            .last_mut()
            .expect("List stack empty in list item");
        context.index += 1;

        // Use the first text content as the item line
        let text = if !list_item.text.is_empty() {
            list_item.text[0].as_string().trim_end()
        } else {
            ""
        };

        // lex#798: a foreign reader builds each item as `{ text: "", children:
        // [Paragraph, …] }` (comrak's block model — the item's content lives in a
        // child Paragraph, not in `text`). Serializing that empty-text shape as
        // the loose `-\n    body` form does not re-parse as a list — lex-core
        // reads the bare `-` as prose and the whole list collapses to a
        // paragraph. When the item has no marker-line text but its leading block
        // is a Paragraph, hoist that paragraph's first line onto the marker line
        // (the tight `- text` form, which re-parses as a list item). The
        // paragraph's remaining lines and every other child stay in the indented
        // body, so genuinely multi-block items (paragraph + sublist, extra
        // paragraphs) are untouched.
        let hoisted = if text.is_empty() {
            self.hoist_leading_paragraph_line(list_item)
        } else {
            None
        };
        let effective_text = hoisted.as_deref().unwrap_or(text);

        let line = if effective_text.is_empty() {
            marker
        } else {
            format!("{marker} {effective_text}")
        };

        self.write_line(&line);
        self.indent_level += 1;
        // A list item's body holds its own sibling blocks (nested paragraphs,
        // lists); give them a fresh separation scope.
        self.enter_sibling_scope();
    }

    fn leave_list_item(&mut self, _list_item: &ListItem) {
        self.leave_sibling_scope();
        self.indent_level -= 1;
    }

    fn visit_definition(&mut self, definition: &Definition) {
        self.separate_before(BlockKind::Definition);
        let subject = definition.subject.as_string();
        self.write_line(&format!("{subject}:"));
        self.indent_level += 1;
        self.enter_sibling_scope();
    }

    fn leave_definition(&mut self, _definition: &Definition) {
        self.leave_sibling_scope();
        self.indent_level -= 1;
    }

    fn visit_annotation(&mut self, annotation: &Annotation) {
        // The trailing-blank requirement (lex#682) applies only to a block
        // annotation *with a body* — its indented body would otherwise pull the
        // next sibling in. A marker-form annotation ends with a closed
        // `:: label ::` and separates like a Verbatim closer. Distinguish the two
        // so the separation matrix picks the right row/column.
        let kind = if annotation.children.is_empty() {
            BlockKind::Annotation
        } else {
            BlockKind::AnnotationBody
        };
        self.separate_before(kind);
        let label = source_spelling(&annotation.data.label);
        let params = &annotation.data.parameters;

        let mut header = format!(":: {label}");
        // Parameters are comma-separated: the parser treats the comma as the only
        // parameter separator (whitespace is ignored), so emitting them space-only
        // collapses `k1=v1, k2=v2` into a single `k1=v1 k2=v2` value on re-parse.
        for (i, param) in params.iter().enumerate() {
            header.push_str(if i == 0 { " " } else { ", " });
            header.push_str(&param.key);
            header.push('=');
            header.push_str(&param.value);
        }

        // Always close the header with ` ::`. The open form (`:: label`) is not
        // valid annotation syntax — the parser drops it — so a block annotation
        // must be `:: label ::` followed by its indented body to round-trip
        // (lex#682).
        header.push_str(" ::");

        self.write_line(&header);

        if !annotation.children.is_empty() {
            self.indent_level += 1;
            self.enter_sibling_scope();
        }
    }

    fn leave_annotation(&mut self, annotation: &Annotation) {
        if !annotation.children.is_empty() {
            self.leave_sibling_scope();
            self.indent_level -= 1;
        }
        // The trailing blank a block annotation needs before its next sibling is
        // now emitted by the separation matrix (`AnnotationBody → *` = 1), not here
        // (formerly the lex#682 band-aid). The marker form has no body and so takes
        // the `Annotation → *` row (Verbatim-shaped), not this trailing blank.
    }

    fn visit_verbatim_block(&mut self, _verbatim: &Verbatim) {
        // The blank a verbatim's subject line needs before it (so its subject is
        // not merged into a preceding paragraph) is now emitted by the separation
        // matrix (`* → Verbatim` cells), not here (formerly the lex#505 band-aid).
        // A verbatim that is the first child of a container never gets a leading
        // blank because `separate_before` is a no-op before the first sibling.
        self.separate_before(BlockKind::Verbatim);
    }

    fn visit_verbatim_group(&mut self, group: &VerbatimGroupItemRef) {
        let subject = group.subject.as_string();
        self.write_line(&format!("{subject}:"));
        self.indent_level += 1;
    }

    fn leave_verbatim_group(&mut self, _group: &VerbatimGroupItemRef) {
        self.indent_level -= 1;
    }

    fn visit_verbatim_line(&mut self, verbatim_line: &VerbatimLine) {
        self.write_line(verbatim_line.content.as_string());
    }

    fn leave_verbatim_block(&mut self, verbatim: &Verbatim) {
        let label = source_spelling(&verbatim.closing_data.label);
        let mut footer = format!(":: {label}");
        if !verbatim.closing_data.parameters.is_empty() {
            for param in &verbatim.closing_data.parameters {
                footer.push(' ');
                footer.push_str(&param.key);
                footer.push('=');
                footer.push_str(&param.value);
            }
        }
        footer.push_str(" ::");
        self.write_line(&footer);
    }

    fn visit_table(&mut self, table: &Table) {
        // Tables share the outer verbatim shape: leading blank line,
        // subject line ending in `:`, indented body of pipe rows,
        // dedented `:: table ::` closer.
        self.separate_before(BlockKind::Table);
        if !self.last_emission_ended_with_container_opener_colon() {
            self.ensure_blank_lines(1);
        }

        // Everything walked between here and `leave_table` — the footnote list
        // below, and the cell children / closer annotations / muted second
        // footnote walk that `Table::accept` drives after `visit_table`
        // returns — is the table block's *interior*, not a sibling of the
        // table. Open a scope so their `separate_before` calls can't overwrite
        // the outer scope's `Table` record (the block after the table must
        // separate against `Table`, not against whatever was walked last
        // inside it).
        self.enter_sibling_scope();

        let subject = table.subject.as_string();
        if !subject.is_empty() {
            self.write_line(&format!("{subject}:"));
        }

        self.indent_level += 1;
        emit_pipe_table(self, table);

        // Emit the scoped footnote list *inside* the indented block, after the
        // rows and before the dedent, so it stays part of the table and keeps
        // its numbered markers (lex#684). `Table::accept` walks `footnotes`
        // again after `visit_table` returns — at the outer indent and after the
        // closer — so record the list here and mute that second walk
        // (`visit_list` / `suppress_output`).
        if let Some(footnotes) = &table.footnotes {
            self.ensure_blank_lines(1);
            footnotes.accept(self);
            self.emitted_footnote_lists
                .push(footnotes.as_ref() as *const List);
        }

        self.indent_level -= 1;

        // The closing `:: lex.tabular.table ::` annotation is part of
        // `table.annotations` — emitted by the standard annotation
        // walk after `leave_table` returns. Until form-preserving
        // emit lands (PR 3 of #584), the annotation walker emits
        // `label.value` verbatim; that's the canonical for now.
    }

    fn leave_table(&mut self, _table: &Table) {
        // Close the table-interior sibling scope opened in `visit_table`.
        // (Annotations carry the closer; nothing to emit here.)
        self.leave_sibling_scope();
    }
}