/**
 * A Collection of settings
 */
export interface ConfigOptions {
    /**
     * The number of nodes that will be ran in parallel, 
     * if the number of nodes is smaller than the parallels, 
     * it will simply divide them evenly and ignore extra parallels
     */
    parallel_nodes:      number,

    /**
     * The amount of tasks that a node parallel can run at once,
     * these basically are mysql_dump processes.
     */
    parallel_node_tasks: number,

    /**
     * This option should be set to ON if you would like the dumps
     * to only export tables.
     */
    separate_into_tables: boolean,

    /**
     * A string of CLI options for the mysql dump command
     */
    mysql_dump_settings: string,
}

/**
 * Basic configuration interface for the mailer
 */
export interface SMTPConfig {
    /**
     * The email address to globally use for sending 
     * out email from.
     */
    email_from : string,
    /**
     * Email username login details
     */
    username   : string,
    /**
     * Email password login details
     */
    password   : string,
    /**
     * The SMTP host of the email
     */
    host       : string,
    /**
     * The port to send to, common ports are 465 ( ssl ), 587 for TLS
     */
    port       : number,
    /**
     * Secure Connection
     */
    ssl        : boolean,
}

export interface NodeConnectionMail {
    /**
     * Enable or disable email sending
     */
    enabled : boolean,
    /**
     * The main user to send out the email to
     */
    email_to: string,
    /**
     * A list of email addresses to CC into the email
     */
    email_cc: Array<string>,
}

export interface DatabaseFilter {
    /**
     * A filter where anything inside of it is going to be ignored
     */
    blacklist?: null | Array<string>,
    /**
     * A filter where anything out of it will be ignored
     */
    whitelist?: null | Array<string>,
}

/**
 * A Node Connection for the database backup
 */
export interface NodeConnection {
    /**
     * The name for the connection to be identified by
     */
    name      : string,
    /**
     * Send out console debug messages
     */
    debug     : string,
    /**
     * Keep a log file for this connection independently
     */
    log       : boolean,
    /**
     * Mail configuration details
     */
    mail?     : NodeConnectionMail | null,
    /**
     * Ip Address of the database
     */
    hostname  : string,
    /**
     * The username for the database connection
     */
    username  : string,
    /**
     * The password to connect to the database with
     */
    password  : string,
    /**
     * The database filter, this can contain a blacklist or a whitelist.
     */
    databases?: DatabaseFilter
}

export interface ConfigObject {
    /**
     * A list of global settings for the behaviour
     * of the exporter
     */
    options: ConfigOptions,

    /**
     * SMTP details for sending out email notifications
     * for real-time updates on erros, health, and backups.
     */
    smtp:    SMTPConfig,

    /**
     * An array of Node connections that we should backup
     */
    nodes:   Array<NodeConnection>
}


export function getConfig() : ConfigObject | null {

    
    return null;
}