1 files changed, 41 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/internal/caldata/caldata.go b/internal/caldata/caldata.go
index 5deb895..9272fbb 100644
--- a/internal/caldata/caldata.go
+++ b/internal/caldata/caldata.go
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ package caldata
 import (
 	_ "embed"
 	"fmt"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
 
 	"github.com/lukaszkasprzak/lectio/internal/calendar"
 	"github.com/lukaszkasprzak/lectio/internal/ini"
@@ -17,14 +19,51 @@ var romanCalendar []byte
 // Universal parses the embedded universal calendar. It panics on a malformed
 // embedded file (a build-time bug caught by tests), never at the request layer.
 func Universal() calendar.Layer {
-	l, err := parse(romanCalendar)
+	l, err := ParseLayer(romanCalendar)
 	if err != nil {
 		panic(fmt.Sprintf("caldata: embedded roman-calendar.ini invalid: %v", err))
 	}
 	return l
 }
 
-func parse(data []byte) (calendar.Layer, error) {
+// LoadLayer reads and parses a user calendar layer file. id (the filename stem)
+// is used as the layer's ID when the file's [layer] header omits one.
+func LoadLayer(path, id string) (calendar.Layer, error) {
+	data, err := os.ReadFile(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		return calendar.Layer{}, err
+	}
+	l, err := ParseLayer(data)
+	if err != nil {
+		return calendar.Layer{}, fmt.Errorf("%s: %w", path, err)
+	}
+	if l.ID == "" {
+		l.ID = id
+	}
+	return l, nil
+}
+
+// Stack returns the ordered layer stack for the engine: the universal base
+// first, then each user layer named in use (matched to "<dir>/<id>.ini"), in
+// order. A layer that fails to load is skipped and reported in the error slice
+// so a single bad file never breaks calendar computation.
+func Stack(dir string, use []string) ([]calendar.Layer, []error) {
+	layers := []calendar.Layer{Universal()}
+	var errs []error
+	for _, id := range use {
+		l, err := LoadLayer(filepath.Join(dir, id+".ini"), id)
+		if err != nil {
+			errs = append(errs, err)
+			continue
+		}
+		layers = append(layers, l)
+	}
+	return layers, errs
+}
+
+// ParseLayer parses INI bytes (a [layer] header + [slug]/[slug/variant]
+// celebration sections) into a calendar.Layer.
+func ParseLayer(data []byte) (calendar.Layer, error) {
 	secs, err := ini.Parse(data)
 	if err != nil {
 		return calendar.Layer{}, err