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+"""Updates the license text in source file.

+"""

+

+# An existing license is found if the file starts with the string below,

+# and ends with the first blank line.

+LICENSE_BEGIN = "// Copyright "

+

+BRIEF_LICENSE = LICENSE_BEGIN + """2007-2010 Baptiste Lepilleur

+// Distributed under MIT license, or public domain if desired and

+// recognized in your jurisdiction.

+// See file LICENSE for detail or copy at http://jsoncpp.sourceforge.net/LICENSE

+

+""".replace('\r\n','\n')

+

+def update_license( path, dry_run, show_diff ):

+    """Update the license statement in the specified file.

+    Parameters:

+      path: path of the C++ source file to update.

+      dry_run: if True, just print the path of the file that would be updated,

+               but don't change it.

+      show_diff: if True, print the path of the file that would be modified,

+                 as well as the change made to the file. 

+    """

+    with open( path, 'rt' ) as fin:

+        original_text = fin.read().replace('\r\n','\n')

+        newline = fin.newlines and fin.newlines[0] or '\n'

+    if not original_text.startswith( LICENSE_BEGIN ):

+        # No existing license found => prepend it

+        new_text = BRIEF_LICENSE + original_text

+    else:

+        license_end_index = original_text.index( '\n\n' ) # search first blank line

+        new_text = BRIEF_LICENSE + original_text[license_end_index+2:]

+    if original_text != new_text:

+        if not dry_run:

+            with open( path, 'wb' ) as fout:

+                fout.write( new_text.replace('\n', newline ) )

+        print 'Updated', path

+        if show_diff:

+            import difflib

+            print '\n'.join( difflib.unified_diff( original_text.split('\n'),

+                                                   new_text.split('\n') ) )

+        return True

+    return False

+

+def update_license_in_source_directories( source_dirs, dry_run, show_diff ):

+    """Updates license text in C++ source files found in directory source_dirs.

+    Parameters:

+      source_dirs: list of directory to scan for C++ sources. Directories are

+                   scanned recursively.

+      dry_run: if True, just print the path of the file that would be updated,

+               but don't change it.

+      show_diff: if True, print the path of the file that would be modified,

+                 as well as the change made to the file. 

+    """

+    from devtools import antglob

+    prune_dirs = antglob.prune_dirs + 'scons-local* ./build* ./libs ./dist'

+    for source_dir in source_dirs:

+        cpp_sources = antglob.glob( source_dir,

+            includes = '''**/*.h **/*.cpp **/*.inl''',

+            prune_dirs = prune_dirs )

+        for source in cpp_sources:

+            update_license( source, dry_run, show_diff )

+

+def main():

+    usage = """%prog DIR [DIR2...]

+Updates license text in sources of the project in source files found

+in the directory specified on the command-line.

+

+Example of call:

+python devtools\licenseupdater.py include src -n --diff

+=> Show change that would be made to the sources.

+

+python devtools\licenseupdater.py include src

+=> Update license statement on all sources in directories include/ and src/.

+"""

+    from optparse import OptionParser

+    parser = OptionParser(usage=usage)

+    parser.allow_interspersed_args = False

+    parser.add_option('-n', '--dry-run', dest="dry_run", action='store_true', default=False,

+        help="""Only show what files are updated, do not update the files""")

+    parser.add_option('--diff', dest="show_diff", action='store_true', default=False,

+        help="""On update, show change made to the file.""")

+    parser.enable_interspersed_args()

+    options, args = parser.parse_args()

+    update_license_in_source_directories( args, options.dry_run, options.show_diff )

+    print 'Done'

+

+if __name__ == '__main__':

+    import sys

+    import os.path

+    sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))))

+    main()

+