bkp7 / fsnip

export function setInputType (inpObj, newType) { // only exported for testing purposes

  if (typeof inpObj.type === 'undefined' || inpObj.type === '') { // type has not previously been set

    inpObj.type = newType

    if (newType === 'json') {

      inpObj.json = JSON.parse(inpObj.text)

      jsonPrettify(inpObj) // sets default output options for json

      return true

    } else if (newType === 'plain') {

      inpObj.plain = inpObj.text

      return true

    } else {

      return false

    }

  } else if (inpObj.type !== newType) { // it's already been set to something else so there's a problem

    if (typeof inpObj.error === 'undefined') { inpObj.error = [] }

    inpObj.error.push('cannot mix options designed to process different types of file')

    return false

  } else {

    return true

  }

}