Removing debugging code

main.py

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import argparse
+from noid import Minter
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(prog="noid", description="Generate noid, archival persistent identifiers")
+    subparsers = parser.add_subparsers(dest="command")
+    new_sp = subparsers.add_parser("new")
+    new_sp.add_argument("name")
+    new_sp.add_argument("template")
+    mint_sp = subparsers.add_parser("mint")
+    mint_sp.add_argument("name")
+
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    match args.command:
+        case "new":
+            minter = Minter()
+            if (total := minter.parse_template(args.template)) > 0:
+                minter.initcounters()
+                print(f"The minter is ready. {total} noid are ready to be minted.")
+            else:
+                print("Someting happened, probably a problem with the template: {args.template}")
+            minter.store(f"{args.name}.noid")
+        case "mint":
+            minter = Minter.load(f"{args.name}.noid")
+            print(f"New noid: {minter.genid()}")
+            minter.store(f"{args.name}.noid")
+        case _:
+            parser.print_help()
+        

noid.py

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ class Counter():
 @dataclass
 class Minter(Persistent):
     legalstring: ClassVar[str] = "0123456789bcdfghjkmnpqrstvwxz"
+    xdig: tuple[str] = tuple(legalstring)
     alphacount: ClassVar[int] = len(legalstring)
     digitcount: ClassVar[int] = 10
     
@@ -138,7 +139,6 @@ class Minter(Persistent):
         # 8. return s
         s = ""
         varwidth = 0
-        xdig = list(self.legalstring)
         rmask = list(self.template)
         rmask.reverse()
         while num != 0 or not varwidth:
@@ -164,13 +164,44 @@ class Minter(Persistent):
                         continue
             remainder = num % div
             num = int(num / div)
-            s = xdig[remainder] + s
+            s = self.xdig[remainder] + s
         if self.template[-1] == "k":
             s += "+"
         return s
 
-    def _checkbar(self, id):
-        pass
+    def _checkchar(self, id):
+        # 1. Return undef if id is not set
+        # 2. init lastchar to last char of the id, and remove that char from id
+        # 3. init pos to 1
+        # 4. init sum to 0
+        # 5. declare c
+        # 6. for each character of the id
+        #    - get the ordinal value of the character
+        #    - increment sum with the pos * the index value of the char in legalstring
+        #    - increment pos
+        # 7. init checkchar to the value of xdig[sum % alphacount]
+        # 8. return the concat of id and checkchar is lastchar equal to '+' or checkchar
+        # 9. return None
+        if id is None:
+            return None
+        lastchar = id[-1]
+        sum = 0
+        for idx, char in enumerate(id[:-1], 1):
+            sum += idx * (self.legalstring.index(char) if self.legalstring.index(char) else 0)
+        checkchar = self.xdig[sum % self.alphacount]
+        if lastchar == "+" or lastchar == checkchar:
+            return id[:-1] + checkchar
+        else:
+            return None
+
+    def mint(self, n=1):
+        for _ in range(n):
+            _id = self.genid()
+            if self.template[-1] == "k":
+                _id = self._checkchar(_id)
+                if _id is not None:
+                    return self.prefix + _id
+            return self.prefix + _id
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":

test_app.py

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
     for i in range(noid.oatop + 2):
         print(f"--> {i=}")
         try:
-            n = noid.genid()
+            n = noid.mint()
             print("noid:", n)
             print(noid.active_counters)
             print(noid.inactive_counters)