'''
Import statements:
    1. Import the built-in json python package
    2. From employee.py, import the details function and the employee_name, age, title variables
'''

### WRITE IMPORT STATEMENTS HERE
import json
from employee import details, employee_name, age, title

def create_dict(name, age, title):
    """ Creates a dictionary that stores an employee's information

    [IMPLEMENT ME]
        1. Return a dictionary that maps "first_name" to name, "age" to age, and "title" to title

    Args:
        name: Name of employee
        age: Age of employee
        title: Title of employee

    Returns:
        dict - A dictionary that maps "first_name", "age", and "title" to the
               name, age, and title arguments, respectively. Make sure that
               the values are typecasted correctly (name - string, age - int,
               title - string)
    """
    ### WRITE SOLUTION HERE

    d = {"first_name": name, "age": int(age), "title": title}
    return d
    raise NotImplementedError()

def write_json_to_file(json_obj, output_file):
    """ Write json string to file

    [IMPLEMENT ME]
        1. Open a new file defined by output_file
        2. Write json_obj to the new file

    Args:
        json_obj: json string containing employee information
        output_file: the file the json is being written to
    """
    ### WRITE SOLUTION HERE
    newfile = open(output_file, "w")
    newfile.write(json_obj)
    newfile.close()
    return newfile
    raise NotImplementedError()

def main():
    # Print the contents of details() -- This should print the details of an employee
    details()

    # Create employee dictionary
    employee_dict = create_dict(employee_name, age, title)
    print("employee_dict: " + str(employee_dict))

    '''
    Use a function called dumps from the json module to convert employee_dict
    into a json string and store it in a variable called json_object.
    '''
    ### WRITE YOUR CODE BY MODIFYING THE LINE BELOW
    # In the line below replace the None keyword with your code.
    # The format should look like: variable = json.dumps(dict)
    json_object = json.dumps(employee_dict)
    print("json_object: " + str(json_object))

    # Write out the json object to file
    write_json_to_file(json_object, "employee.json")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()