--- comics/fetch.pl.new	2018/01/26 13:05:27	1.23
+++ comics/fetch.pl.new	2018/02/06 14:31:06	1.24
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
 
 ###############################################################################
 # $Log: fetch.pl.new,v $
+# Revision 1.24  2018/02/06 14:31:06  nick
+# A status report is now generated in JSON that can easily be scanned so that
+# I can be alerted when there are failures that I miss if I don't read the
+# comics that day.
+#
 # Revision 1.23  2018/01/26 13:05:27  nick
 # Added a new config option to remove all newline from the resulting index.html
 # file.  This allows for easier parsing for certain comics.  I then updated
@@ -42,15 +47,16 @@ use File::Path;
 use Data::Dumper;
 use Pod::Usage;
 use Getopt::Long;
-
+use JSON::Create 'create_json';
 use Date::Calc qw/Date_to_Text_Long Today Day_of_Week Day_of_Week_to_Text/;
 
 ## 
 ## Some default values
 ##
-my $ver		= '$Id: fetch.pl.new,v 1.23 2018/01/26 13:05:27 nick Exp $';
+my $ver		= '$Id: fetch.pl.new,v 1.24 2018/02/06 14:31:06 nick Exp $';
 my $comicFile   = "comics.conf";
 my $comicConfigVer = "Unknown";
+my $reportFile = "/home/httpd/html/daily/comics/status_report.json";
 my %comics	= &readComicConfig ( $comicFile );
 my %opts        = &fetchOptions( );
 my $days_ago    = $opts{'days'} || 0;
@@ -113,6 +119,9 @@ foreach my $comic ( sort keys %comics )
 
 &writeFooter( \%dates );
 
+print STDOUT "Status written to $reportFile.\n"
+    if (&writeStatusReportJSON(\%comics, $reportFile));
+
 $DATE=`date`;  chomp( $DATE );
 print STDOUT "Completed comic fetch at $DATE\n";
 
@@ -159,8 +168,8 @@ sub readComicConfig ($$) {
 
 	open FILEN, "<$comicFile";
 		while (<FILEN>) {
-            #if ($_ =~ m/^#.* \$Id: fetch.pl.new,v 1.23 2018/01/26 13:05:27 nick Exp $/) {
-            if ($_ =~ m/^#.* \$Id: fetch.pl.new,v 1.23 2018/01/26 13:05:27 nick Exp $$/) {
+            #if ($_ =~ m/^#.* \$[Ii][Dd]: fetch.pl.new,v 1.23 2018/01/26 13:05:27 nick Exp $/) {
+            if ($_ =~ m/^#.* \$[Ii][dD]: .*,v\ (.*)\ \d{4}\/.*\$$/) {
                 $comicConfigVer = $1;
             }
 			if ( ( $_ !~ m/^#/ ) && ( $_ =~ m/,.*,/) ){
@@ -189,6 +198,36 @@ sub readComicConfig ($$) {
 }
 
 #######################################################################
+#######################################################################
+sub writeStatusReportJSON ($$) {
+	my ( $comicsRef, $filename ) = @_;
+    my %comics = %$comicsRef;
+    my %json = ('date' => $DATE, 'comics' => []);
+    my $totalErrors = 0;
+
+    foreach my $comic (sort keys %comics) {
+      next unless $comics{$comic}{'fullName'};
+      if ($comics{$comic}{'error'}) {
+        my %error = ('comicName' => "$comics{$comic}{'fullName'}",
+                     'error' => "$comics{$comic}{'error'}",
+                     'status' => "Error");
+        push $json{'comics'}, \%error;
+        $totalErrors += 1;
+      } else {
+        my %status = ('comicName' => "$comics{$comic}{'fullName'}",
+                      'error' => 0,
+                      'status' => "Successfull");
+        push $json{'comics'}, \%status;
+      }
+    }
+    $json{'totalErrors'} = $totalErrors;    
+
+    open SR, ">$filename" or die ("ERROR: Failed to create status report: $!\n");
+    print SR create_json (\%json);
+    close(SR); 
+}
+
+#######################################################################
 #######################################################################
 sub writeComic ($$) {
 	my ( $comics, $comic, $date ) = @_;