feat: statusline API, counts, and PendingStatusChanged event (#40)

Problem: no way to know about overdue or due-today tasks without
opening :Pending. No ambient awareness for statusline plugins.

Solution: add counts(), statusline(), and has_due() public API
functions backed by a module-local cache that recomputes after every
store.save() and store.load(). Fire a User PendingStatusChanged event
on every recompute. Extract is_overdue() and is_today() from duplicate
locals into parse.lua as public functions. Refactor views.lua and
init.lua to use the shared date logic. Add vimdoc API section and
integration recipes for lualine, heirline, manual statusline, startup
notification, and event-driven refresh.
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Barrett Ruth 2026-02-26 16:30:06 -05:00
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require('spec.helpers')
local config = require('pending.config')
local parse = require('pending.parse')
local store = require('pending.store')
describe('status', function()
local tmpdir
local pending
before_each(function()
tmpdir = vim.fn.tempname()
vim.fn.mkdir(tmpdir, 'p')
vim.g.pending = { data_path = tmpdir .. '/tasks.json' }
config.reset()
store.unload()
package.loaded['pending'] = nil
pending = require('pending')
end)
after_each(function()
vim.fn.delete(tmpdir, 'rf')
vim.g.pending = nil
config.reset()
store.unload()
package.loaded['pending'] = nil
end)
describe('counts', function()
it('returns zeroes for empty store', function()
store.load()
local c = pending.counts()
assert.are.equal(0, c.overdue)
assert.are.equal(0, c.today)
assert.are.equal(0, c.pending)
assert.are.equal(0, c.priority)
assert.is_nil(c.next_due)
end)
it('counts pending tasks', function()
store.load()
store.add({ description = 'One' })
store.add({ description = 'Two' })
store.save()
pending._recompute_counts()
local c = pending.counts()
assert.are.equal(2, c.pending)
end)
it('counts priority tasks', function()
store.load()
store.add({ description = 'Urgent', priority = 1 })
store.add({ description = 'Normal' })
store.save()
pending._recompute_counts()
local c = pending.counts()
assert.are.equal(1, c.priority)
end)
it('counts overdue tasks with date-only', function()
store.load()
store.add({ description = 'Old task', due = '2020-01-01' })
store.save()
pending._recompute_counts()
local c = pending.counts()
assert.are.equal(1, c.overdue)
end)
it('counts overdue tasks with datetime', function()
store.load()
store.add({ description = 'Old task', due = '2020-01-01T08:00' })
store.save()
pending._recompute_counts()
local c = pending.counts()
assert.are.equal(1, c.overdue)
end)
it('counts today tasks', function()
store.load()
local today = os.date('%Y-%m-%d') --[[@as string]]
store.add({ description = 'Today task', due = today })
store.save()
pending._recompute_counts()
local c = pending.counts()
assert.are.equal(1, c.today)
assert.are.equal(0, c.overdue)
end)
it('counts mixed overdue and today', function()
store.load()
local today = os.date('%Y-%m-%d') --[[@as string]]
store.add({ description = 'Overdue', due = '2020-01-01' })
store.add({ description = 'Today', due = today })
store.save()
pending._recompute_counts()
local c = pending.counts()
assert.are.equal(1, c.overdue)
assert.are.equal(1, c.today)
end)
it('excludes done tasks', function()
store.load()
local t = store.add({ description = 'Done', due = '2020-01-01' })
store.update(t.id, { status = 'done' })
store.save()
pending._recompute_counts()
local c = pending.counts()
assert.are.equal(0, c.overdue)
assert.are.equal(0, c.pending)
end)
it('excludes deleted tasks', function()
store.load()
local t = store.add({ description = 'Deleted', due = '2020-01-01' })
store.delete(t.id)
store.save()
pending._recompute_counts()
local c = pending.counts()
assert.are.equal(0, c.overdue)
assert.are.equal(0, c.pending)
end)
it('excludes someday sentinel', function()
store.load()
store.add({ description = 'Someday', due = '9999-12-30' })
store.save()
pending._recompute_counts()
local c = pending.counts()
assert.are.equal(0, c.overdue)
assert.are.equal(0, c.today)
assert.are.equal(1, c.pending)
end)
it('picks earliest future date as next_due', function()
store.load()
local today = os.date('%Y-%m-%d') --[[@as string]]
store.add({ description = 'Soon', due = '2099-06-01' })
store.add({ description = 'Sooner', due = '2099-03-01' })
store.add({ description = 'Today', due = today })
store.save()
pending._recompute_counts()
local c = pending.counts()
assert.are.equal(today, c.next_due)
end)
it('lazy loads on first counts() call', function()
local path = config.get().data_path
local f = io.open(path, 'w')
f:write(vim.json.encode({
version = 1,
next_id = 2,
tasks = {
{
id = 1,
description = 'Overdue',
status = 'pending',
due = '2020-01-01',
entry = '2020-01-01T00:00:00Z',
modified = '2020-01-01T00:00:00Z',
},
},
}))
f:close()
store.unload()
package.loaded['pending'] = nil
pending = require('pending')
local c = pending.counts()
assert.are.equal(1, c.overdue)
end)
end)
describe('statusline', function()
it('returns empty string when nothing actionable', function()
store.load()
store.save()
pending._recompute_counts()
assert.are.equal('', pending.statusline())
end)
it('formats overdue only', function()
store.load()
store.add({ description = 'Old', due = '2020-01-01' })
store.save()
pending._recompute_counts()
assert.are.equal('1 overdue', pending.statusline())
end)
it('formats today only', function()
store.load()
local today = os.date('%Y-%m-%d') --[[@as string]]
store.add({ description = 'Today', due = today })
store.save()
pending._recompute_counts()
assert.are.equal('1 today', pending.statusline())
end)
it('formats overdue and today', function()
store.load()
local today = os.date('%Y-%m-%d') --[[@as string]]
store.add({ description = 'Old', due = '2020-01-01' })
store.add({ description = 'Today', due = today })
store.save()
pending._recompute_counts()
assert.are.equal('1 overdue, 1 today', pending.statusline())
end)
end)
describe('has_due', function()
it('returns false when nothing due', function()
store.load()
store.add({ description = 'Future', due = '2099-01-01' })
store.save()
pending._recompute_counts()
assert.is_false(pending.has_due())
end)
it('returns true when overdue', function()
store.load()
store.add({ description = 'Old', due = '2020-01-01' })
store.save()
pending._recompute_counts()
assert.is_true(pending.has_due())
end)
it('returns true when today', function()
store.load()
local today = os.date('%Y-%m-%d') --[[@as string]]
store.add({ description = 'Now', due = today })
store.save()
pending._recompute_counts()
assert.is_true(pending.has_due())
end)
end)
describe('parse.is_overdue', function()
it('date before today is overdue', function()
assert.is_true(parse.is_overdue('2020-01-01'))
end)
it('date after today is not overdue', function()
assert.is_false(parse.is_overdue('2099-01-01'))
end)
it('today date-only is not overdue', function()
local today = os.date('%Y-%m-%d') --[[@as string]]
assert.is_false(parse.is_overdue(today))
end)
end)
describe('parse.is_today', function()
it('today date-only is today', function()
local today = os.date('%Y-%m-%d') --[[@as string]]
assert.is_true(parse.is_today(today))
end)
it('yesterday is not today', function()
assert.is_false(parse.is_today('2020-01-01'))
end)
it('tomorrow is not today', function()
assert.is_false(parse.is_today('2099-01-01'))
end)
end)
end)