module IrcBot.RandomFileFinder where

import System.Directory
import System.Random
import Data.List
import Control.Monad.IO.Class

getRandomFile :: String -> IO String


getRandomFile directoryName =
            do
            let fullDirectoryName =  "./.warehouse/" ++ directoryName
            acceptedDirectoryNames <- (listDirectory "./.warehouse") >>= \x -> return  x
            print acceptedDirectoryNames
            let directoryExist = elem directoryName acceptedDirectoryNames

            if directoryExist then do
                directoryItems <- getDirectoryContents fullDirectoryName
                let directoryItemCount = (length directoryItems) 
                print "directory item count is: "
                if directoryItemCount > 2 then do -- . and .. basically makes 2 
                    result <-  randomRIO(2,(directoryItemCount-1)) :: IO Int -- 2 represents an index which is exludes 0,1 elements from file list (. and ..)
                    let fileName = directoryItems !! result
                    return $ ".warehouse/" ++ directoryName ++ "/" ++ fileName
                else  return $ ""
            else return $ ""