fix: if a topic path contains missing directories, create them

Sponsored-by: author

3 files changed, 19 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/jt.md b/jt.md
index 7265724..0ffcc2d 100644
--- a/jt.md
+++ b/jt.md
@@ -312,15 +312,15 @@ when I try to run jt --editor=none --dirname=jrnl new --topic foo.bar "Abracadab
 then command fails
 then stderr contains "foo.bar"
 
-when I run jt --editor=none --dirname=jrnl new-topic foo.bar "Things about Foobars"
+when I run jt --editor=none --dirname=jrnl new-topic topics/foo.bar "Things about Foobars"
 then command is successful
-then file jrnl/foo.bar.mdwn contains "Things about Foobars"
+then file jrnl/topics/foo.bar.mdwn contains "Things about Foobars"
 then there are no uncommitted changes in jrnl
 
-when I run jt --editor=none --dirname=jrnl new --topic foo.bar "Abracadabra"
+when I run jt --editor=none --dirname=jrnl new --topic topics/foo.bar "Abracadabra"
 then command is successful
 and there is one draft in jrnl
-and draft 0 in jrnl links to "foo.bar"
+and draft 0 in jrnl links to "topics/foo.bar"
 ~~~
 
 
diff --git a/src/error.rs b/src/error.rs
index 04ba777..c86ad13 100644
--- a/src/error.rs
+++ b/src/error.rs
@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ pub enum JournalError {
     #[error("directory {0} is not a journal")]
     NotAJournal(String),
 
+    /// The specified directory for the journal does not exist.
+    #[error("journal directory does not exist: {0}")]
+    NoJournalDirectory(PathBuf),
+
     /// Failed to create the directory for the journal.
     #[error("failed to create journal directory {0}")]
     CreateDirectory(PathBuf, #[source] std::io::Error),
diff --git a/src/journal.rs b/src/journal.rs
index a48a63d..270bb19 100644
--- a/src/journal.rs
+++ b/src/journal.rs
@@ -198,7 +198,18 @@ impl Journal {
         let mut context = Context::new();
         context.insert("title", title);
 
+        let dirname = self.dirname();
+        if !dirname.exists() {
+            return Err(JournalError::NoJournalDirectory(dirname.to_path_buf()));
+        }
+
         let pathname = topic_path(self.dirname(), path);
+        let parent = pathname.parent().unwrap();
+        if !parent.is_dir() {
+            std::fs::create_dir_all(&parent)
+                .map_err(|err| JournalError::CreateDirectory(parent.to_path_buf(), err))?;
+        }
+
         let text = self.templates.new_topic(&context)?;
         std::fs::write(&pathname, text)
             .map_err(|err| JournalError::WriteTopic(pathname.to_path_buf(), err))?;