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#!/usr/bin/env perl
#
# Author: petr.danecek@sanger
#

use strict;
use warnings;
use Carp;
use Vcf;

my $opts = parse_params();
concat($opts);

exit;

#--------------------------------

sub error
{
    my (@msg) = @_;
    if ( scalar @msg )
    {
        croak @msg;
    }
    die
        "About: Reorder columns to match the order in the template VCF.\n",
        "Usage: vcf-shuffle-cols [OPTIONS] -t template.vcf.gz file.vcf.gz > out.vcf\n",
        "Options:\n",
        "   -t, --template <file>            The file with the correct order of the columns.\n",
        "   -h, -?, --help                   This help message.\n",
        "\n";
}

sub parse_params
{
    my $opts = {};
    while (my $arg=shift(@ARGV))
    {
        if ( $arg eq '-t' || $arg eq '--template' ) { $$opts{template}=shift(@ARGV); next; }
        if ( $arg eq '-?' || $arg eq '-h' || $arg eq '--help' ) { error(); }
        if ( -e $arg ) { $$opts{file}=$arg; next }
        error("Unknown parameter \"$arg\". Run -h for help.\n");
    }
    if ( !exists($$opts{template}) ) { error("Missing the -t option.\n"); }
    return $opts;
}

sub concat
{
    my ($opts) = @_;
    my $tmpl = Vcf->new(file=>$$opts{template});
    $tmpl->parse_header();
    $tmpl->close();

    my $vcf = $$opts{file} ? Vcf->new(file=>$$opts{file}) : Vcf->new(fh=>\*STDIN);
    $vcf->parse_header();

    # Check if one-to-one correspondence can be found and create a mapping
    my @new_to_old = ();
    for my $tcol (@{$$tmpl{columns}})
    {
        if ( !exists($$vcf{has_column}{$tcol}) ) { error("TODO: the column names do not match\n"); }
    }
    for my $vcol (@{$$vcf{columns}})
    {
        if ( !exists($$tmpl{has_column}{$vcol}) ) { error("TODO: the column names do not match\n"); }
        my $new = $$tmpl{has_column}{$vcol} - 1;
        my $old = $$vcf{has_column}{$vcol} - 1;
        $new_to_old[$new] = $old;
    }


    # Output the header with modified column order
    my $ncols = @{$$tmpl{columns}} - 1;
    my @cols  = @{$$tmpl{columns}}[9..$ncols];
    print $vcf->format_header(\@cols);

    while (my $x=$vcf->next_data_array())
    {
        print $$x[0];
        for (my $i=1; $i<=$ncols; $i++)
        {
            my $idx = $new_to_old[$i];
            print "\t".$$x[$idx];
        }
        print "\n";
    }
}