From 7ce1d86c05ac427e9ade91a4effa4302bc3cc969 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Willemse <tom@ryuslash.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 22:02:52 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Add defaults for the data from the org buffer

---
 tekuti.el | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tekuti.el b/tekuti.el
index 5683b10..9545fcc 100644
--- a/tekuti.el
+++ b/tekuti.el
@@ -44,30 +44,44 @@
 
 (defvar tekuti-host "http://127.0.0.1:8080")
 
-(defun tekuti--format-date (date)
+(defun tekuti--format-date (&optional date)
   "Format DATE into a date that tekuti understands."
   (format-time-string "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z"
-                      (org-timestamp-to-time
-                       (org-timestamp-from-string date))
+                      (unless (null date)
+                        (org-timestamp-to-time
+                         (org-timestamp-from-string date)))
                       t))
 
 (defun tekuti-build-data-from-org ()
-  (append
-   (mapcar
-    (lambda (pair)
-      (pcase pair
-        (`("DATE" ,date)
-         (list "DATE" (tekuti--format-date date)))
-        (`("COMMENTS_DATE" ,date)
-         (list "COMMENTS-CLOSED-DATE"
-               (and (not (string-empty-p date))
-                    (tekuti--format-date date))))
-        (_ pair)))
-    (org-collect-keywords '("TITLE" "TAGS" "STATUS" "COMMENTS" "DATE" "COMMENTS_DATE")))
-   (list
-    (list "BODY"
-          (with-current-buffer (org-html-export-as-html nil nil nil t)
-            (buffer-substring-no-properties (point-min) (point-max)))))))
+  "Parse the current org buffer to collect the necessary metadata."
+  (let ((defaults `(("TITLE")
+                    ("DATE" ,(tekuti--format-date))
+                    ("TAGS")
+                    ("STATUS")
+                    ("COMMENTS")
+                    ("COMMENTS-CLOSED-DATE")
+                    ("BODY")))
+        (data (append
+               (mapcar
+                (lambda (pair)
+                  (pcase pair
+                    (`("DATE" ,date)
+                     (list "DATE" (tekuti--format-date date)))
+                    (`("COMMENTS_DATE" ,date)
+                     (list "COMMENTS-CLOSED-DATE"
+                           (and (not (string-empty-p date))
+                                (tekuti--format-date date))))
+                    (_ pair)))
+                (org-collect-keywords '("TITLE" "TAGS" "STATUS" "COMMENTS" "DATE" "COMMENTS_DATE")))
+               (list
+                (list "BODY"
+                      (with-current-buffer (org-html-export-as-html nil nil nil t)
+                        (buffer-substring-no-properties (point-min) (point-max))))))))
+    (mapcar (lambda (item)
+              (let ((key (car item)))
+                `(,key ,@(or (alist-get key data nil nil #'string=)
+                             (cdr item)))))
+            defaults)))
 
 (defun tekuti-form-encode-pair (key value)
   (concat (url-hexify-string key) "=" (url-hexify-string value)))
@@ -79,6 +93,9 @@
    data
    "&"))
 
+(defun tekuti--send-finished (status &rest _)
+  (message "Finished: %s" status))
+
 ;;;###autoload
 (defun tekuti-send ()
   (interactive)
@@ -87,8 +104,7 @@
          (url-request-extra-headers
           `(("Content-Type" . "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")))
          (url-request-data (tekuti-form-encode-data data)))
-    (url-retrieve (format "%s/admin/new-post" tekuti-host)
-                  (lambda (status &rest _) (message "Finished: %s" status)))))
+    (url-retrieve (format "%s/admin/new-post" tekuti-host) #'tekuti--send-finished)))
 
 (provide 'tekuti)
 ;;; tekuti.el ends here