import * as plugins from './smartcli.plugins'

/**
 * allows to specify an user interaction during runtime
 */

export type questionType = 'input' | 'confirm' | 'list' | 'rawlist' | 'expand' | 'checkbox' | 'password' | 'editor'
export interface IChoiceObject {
    name: string
    value: any
}
export interface IValidateFunction {
    (any): boolean
}

export class Interaction {
    constructor() {
    }

    askQuestion(optionsArg: {
        type: questionType,
        message: string
        default: any
        choices: string[] | IChoiceObject[]
        validate: IValidateFunction
    }) {
        let done = plugins.q.defer()
        plugins.inquirer.prompt([{
            type: optionsArg.type,
            message: optionsArg.message,
            default: optionsArg.default,
            choices: optionsArg.choices,
            validate: optionsArg.validate
        }]).then(answers => {
            done.resolve(answers)
        })
    }
    askQuestionArray
}


export class QuestionTree {

    constructor(questionString: string, optionsArray) {

    }
}

export class QuestionTreeNode {
    constructor() {

    }
}

export class QuestionStorage {
    constructor() {

    }
}