* luci-0.8: merge r3791
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1 --[[
2 LuCI - Utility library
3
4 Description:
5 Several common useful Lua functions
6
7 FileId:
8 $Id$
9
10 License:
11 Copyright 2008 Steven Barth <steven@midlink.org>
12
13 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
14 you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
15 You may obtain a copy of the License at
16
17 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
18
19 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
20 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
21 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
22 See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
23 limitations under the License.
24
25 ]]--
26
27 local io = require "io"
28 local math = require "math"
29 local table = require "table"
30 local debug = require "debug"
31 local ldebug = require "luci.debug"
32 local string = require "string"
33 local coroutine = require "coroutine"
34
35 local getmetatable, setmetatable = getmetatable, setmetatable
36 local rawget, rawset, unpack = rawget, rawset, unpack
37 local tostring, type, assert = tostring, type, assert
38 local ipairs, pairs, loadstring = ipairs, pairs, loadstring
39 local require, pcall, xpcall = require, pcall, xpcall
40
41 --- LuCI utility functions.
42 module "luci.util"
43
44 --
45 -- Pythonic string formatting extension
46 --
47 getmetatable("").__mod = function(a, b)
48 if not b then
49 return a
50 elseif type(b) == "table" then
51 return a:format(unpack(b))
52 else
53 return a:format(b)
54 end
55 end
56
57
58 --
59 -- Class helper routines
60 --
61
62 -- Instantiates a class
63 local function _instantiate(class, ...)
64 local inst = setmetatable({}, {__index = class})
65
66 if inst.__init__ then
67 inst:__init__(...)
68 end
69
70 return inst
71 end
72
73 --- Create a Class object (Python-style object model).
74 -- The class object can be instantiated by calling itself.
75 -- Any class functions or shared parameters can be attached to this object.
76 -- Attaching a table to the class object makes this table shared between
77 -- all instances of this class. For object parameters use the __init__ function.
78 -- Classes can inherit member functions and values from a base class.
79 -- Class can be instantiated by calling them. All parameters will be passed
80 -- to the __init__ function of this class - if such a function exists.
81 -- The __init__ function must be used to set any object parameters that are not shared
82 -- with other objects of this class. Any return values will be ignored.
83 -- @param base The base class to inherit from (optional)
84 -- @return A class object
85 -- @see instanceof
86 -- @see clone
87 function class(base)
88 return setmetatable({}, {
89 __call = _instantiate,
90 __index = base
91 })
92 end
93
94 --- Test whether the given object is an instance of the given class.
95 -- @param object Object instance
96 -- @param class Class object to test against
97 -- @return Boolean indicating whether the object is an instance
98 -- @see class
99 -- @see clone
100 function instanceof(object, class)
101 local meta = getmetatable(object)
102 while meta and meta.__index do
103 if meta.__index == class then
104 return true
105 end
106 meta = getmetatable(meta.__index)
107 end
108 return false
109 end
110
111
112 --
113 -- Scope manipulation routines
114 --
115
116 --- Create a new or get an already existing thread local store associated with
117 -- the current active coroutine. A thread local store is private a table object
118 -- whose values can't be accessed from outside of the running coroutine.
119 -- @return Table value representing the corresponding thread local store
120 function threadlocal()
121 local tbl = {}
122
123 local function get(self, key)
124 local c = coroutine.running()
125 local thread = coxpt[c] or c or 0
126 if not rawget(self, thread) then
127 return nil
128 end
129 return rawget(self, thread)[key]
130 end
131
132 local function set(self, key, value)
133 local c = coroutine.running()
134 local thread = coxpt[c] or c or 0
135 if not rawget(self, thread) then
136 rawset(self, thread, {})
137 end
138 rawget(self, thread)[key] = value
139 end
140
141 setmetatable(tbl, {__index = get, __newindex = set, __mode = "k"})
142
143 return tbl
144 end
145
146
147 --
148 -- Debugging routines
149 --
150
151 --- Write given object to stderr.
152 -- @param obj Value to write to stderr
153 -- @return Boolean indicating whether the write operation was successful
154 function perror(obj)
155 return io.stderr:write(tostring(obj) .. "\n")
156 end
157
158 --- Recursively dumps a table to stdout, useful for testing and debugging.
159 -- @param t Table value to dump
160 -- @param maxdepth Maximum depth
161 -- @return Always nil
162 function dumptable(t, maxdepth, i, seen)
163 i = i or 0
164 seen = seen or setmetatable({}, {__mode="k"})
165
166 for k,v in pairs(t) do
167 perror(string.rep("\t", i) .. tostring(k) .. "\t" .. tostring(v))
168 if type(v) == "table" and (not maxdepth or i < maxdepth) then
169 if not seen[v] then
170 seen[v] = true
171 dumptable(v, maxdepth, i+1, seen)
172 else
173 perror(string.rep("\t", i) .. "*** RECURSION ***")
174 end
175 end
176 end
177 end
178
179
180 --
181 -- String and data manipulation routines
182 --
183
184 --- Escapes all occurrences of the given character in given string.
185 -- @param s String value containing unescaped characters
186 -- @param c String value with character to escape (optional, defaults to "\")
187 -- @return String value with each occurrence of character escaped with "\"
188 function escape(s, c)
189 c = c or "\\"
190 return s:gsub(c, "\\" .. c)
191 end
192
193 --- Create valid XML PCDATA from given string.
194 -- @param value String value containing the data to escape
195 -- @return String value containing the escaped data
196 function pcdata(value)
197 return value and tostring(value):gsub("[&\"'<>]", {
198 ["&"] = "&#38;",
199 ['"'] = "&#34;",
200 ["'"] = "&#39;",
201 ["<"] = "&#60;",
202 [">"] = "&#62;"
203 })
204 end
205
206 --- Strip HTML tags from given string.
207 -- @param value String containing the HTML text
208 -- @return String with HTML tags stripped of
209 function striptags(s)
210 return pcdata(s:gsub("</?[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9:_%-]*[^>]*>", " "):gsub("%s+", " "))
211 end
212
213 --- Splits given string on a defined separator sequence and return a table
214 -- containing the resulting substrings. The optional max parameter specifies
215 -- the number of bytes to process, regardless of the actual length of the given
216 -- string. The optional last parameter, regex, specifies whether the separator
217 -- sequence is interpreted as regular expression.
218 -- @param str String value containing the data to split up
219 -- @param pat String with separator pattern (optional, defaults to "\n")
220 -- @param max Maximum times to split (optional)
221 -- @param regex Boolean indicating whether to interpret the separator
222 -- pattern as regular expression (optional, default is false)
223 -- @return Table containing the resulting substrings
224 function split(str, pat, max, regex)
225 pat = pat or "\n"
226 max = max or #str
227
228 local t = {}
229 local c = 1
230
231 if #str == 0 then
232 return {""}
233 end
234
235 if #pat == 0 then
236 return nil
237 end
238
239 if max == 0 then
240 return str
241 end
242
243 repeat
244 local s, e = str:find(pat, c, not regex)
245 max = max - 1
246 if s and max < 0 then
247 t[#t+1] = str:sub(c)
248 else
249 t[#t+1] = str:sub(c, s and s - 1)
250 end
251 c = e and e + 1 or #str + 1
252 until not s or max < 0
253
254 return t
255 end
256
257 --- Remove leading and trailing whitespace from given string value.
258 -- @param str String value containing whitespace padded data
259 -- @return String value with leading and trailing space removed
260 function trim(str)
261 return (str:gsub("^%s*(.-)%s*$", "%1"))
262 end
263
264 --- Count the occurences of given substring in given string.
265 -- @param str String to search in
266 -- @param pattern String containing pattern to find
267 -- @return Number of found occurences
268 function cmatch(str, pat)
269 local count = 0
270 for _ in str:gmatch(pat) do count = count + 1 end
271 return count
272 end
273
274 --- Parse certain units from the given string and return the canonical integer
275 -- value or 0 if the unit is unknown. Upper- or lower case is irrelevant.
276 -- Recognized units are:
277 -- o "y" - one year (60*60*24*366)
278 -- o "m" - one month (60*60*24*31)
279 -- o "w" - one week (60*60*24*7)
280 -- o "d" - one day (60*60*24)
281 -- o "h" - one hour (60*60)
282 -- o "min" - one minute (60)
283 -- o "kb" - one kilobyte (1024)
284 -- o "mb" - one megabyte (1024*1024)
285 -- o "gb" - one gigabyte (1024*1024*1024)
286 -- o "kib" - one si kilobyte (1000)
287 -- o "mib" - one si megabyte (1000*1000)
288 -- o "gib" - one si gigabyte (1000*1000*1000)
289 -- @param ustr String containing a numerical value with trailing unit
290 -- @return Number containing the canonical value
291 function parse_units(ustr)
292
293 local val = 0
294
295 -- unit map
296 local map = {
297 -- date stuff
298 y = 60 * 60 * 24 * 366,
299 m = 60 * 60 * 24 * 31,
300 w = 60 * 60 * 24 * 7,
301 d = 60 * 60 * 24,
302 h = 60 * 60,
303 min = 60,
304
305 -- storage sizes
306 kb = 1024,
307 mb = 1024 * 1024,
308 gb = 1024 * 1024 * 1024,
309
310 -- storage sizes (si)
311 kib = 1000,
312 mib = 1000 * 1000,
313 gib = 1000 * 1000 * 1000
314 }
315
316 -- parse input string
317 for spec in ustr:lower():gmatch("[0-9%.]+[a-zA-Z]*") do
318
319 local num = spec:gsub("[^0-9%.]+$","")
320 local spn = spec:gsub("^[0-9%.]+", "")
321
322 if map[spn] or map[spn:sub(1,1)] then
323 val = val + num * ( map[spn] or map[spn:sub(1,1)] )
324 else
325 val = val + num
326 end
327 end
328
329
330 return val
331 end
332
333 -- also register functions above in the central string class for convenience
334 string.escape = escape
335 string.pcdata = pcdata
336 string.striptags = striptags
337 string.split = split
338 string.trim = trim
339 string.cmatch = cmatch
340 string.parse_units = parse_units
341
342
343 --- Appends numerically indexed tables or single objects to a given table.
344 -- @param src Target table
345 -- @param ... Objects to insert
346 -- @return Target table
347 function append(src, ...)
348 for i, a in ipairs({...}) do
349 if type(a) == "table" then
350 for j, v in ipairs(a) do
351 src[#src+1] = v
352 end
353 else
354 src[#src+1] = a
355 end
356 end
357 return src
358 end
359
360 --- Combines two or more numerically indexed tables and single objects into one table.
361 -- @param tbl1 Table value to combine
362 -- @param tbl2 Table value to combine
363 -- @param ... More tables to combine
364 -- @return Table value containing all values of given tables
365 function combine(...)
366 return append({}, ...)
367 end
368
369 --- Checks whether the given table contains the given value.
370 -- @param table Table value
371 -- @param value Value to search within the given table
372 -- @return Boolean indicating whether the given value occurs within table
373 function contains(table, value)
374 for k, v in pairs(table) do
375 if value == v then
376 return k
377 end
378 end
379 return false
380 end
381
382 --- Update values in given table with the values from the second given table.
383 -- Both table are - in fact - merged together.
384 -- @param t Table which should be updated
385 -- @param updates Table containing the values to update
386 -- @return Always nil
387 function update(t, updates)
388 for k, v in pairs(updates) do
389 t[k] = v
390 end
391 end
392
393 --- Retrieve all keys of given associative table.
394 -- @param t Table to extract keys from
395 -- @return Sorted table containing the keys
396 function keys(t)
397 local keys = { }
398 if t then
399 for k, _ in kspairs(t) do
400 keys[#keys+1] = k
401 end
402 end
403 return keys
404 end
405
406 --- Clones the given object and return it's copy.
407 -- @param object Table value to clone
408 -- @param deep Boolean indicating whether to do recursive cloning
409 -- @return Cloned table value
410 function clone(object, deep)
411 local copy = {}
412
413 for k, v in pairs(object) do
414 if deep and type(v) == "table" then
415 v = clone(v, deep)
416 end
417 copy[k] = v
418 end
419
420 return setmetatable(copy, getmetatable(object))
421 end
422
423
424 --- Create a dynamic table which automatically creates subtables.
425 -- @return Dynamic Table
426 function dtable()
427 return setmetatable({}, { __index =
428 function(tbl, key)
429 return rawget(tbl, key)
430 or rawget(rawset(tbl, key, dtable()), key)
431 end
432 })
433 end
434
435
436 -- Serialize the contents of a table value.
437 function _serialize_table(t, seen)
438 assert(not seen[t], "Recursion detected.")
439 seen[t] = true
440
441 local data = ""
442 local idata = ""
443 local ilen = 0
444
445 for k, v in pairs(t) do
446 if type(k) ~= "number" or k < 1 or math.floor(k) ~= k or ( k - #t ) > 3 then
447 k = serialize_data(k, seen)
448 v = serialize_data(v, seen)
449 data = data .. ( #data > 0 and ", " or "" ) ..
450 '[' .. k .. '] = ' .. v
451 elseif k > ilen then
452 ilen = k
453 end
454 end
455
456 for i = 1, ilen do
457 local v = serialize_data(t[i], seen)
458 idata = idata .. ( #idata > 0 and ", " or "" ) .. v
459 end
460
461 return idata .. ( #data > 0 and #idata > 0 and ", " or "" ) .. data
462 end
463
464 --- Recursively serialize given data to lua code, suitable for restoring
465 -- with loadstring().
466 -- @param val Value containing the data to serialize
467 -- @return String value containing the serialized code
468 -- @see restore_data
469 -- @see get_bytecode
470 function serialize_data(val, seen)
471 seen = seen or setmetatable({}, {__mode="k"})
472
473 if val == nil then
474 return "nil"
475 elseif type(val) == "number" then
476 return val
477 elseif type(val) == "string" then
478 return "%q" % val
479 elseif type(val) == "boolean" then
480 return val and "true" or "false"
481 elseif type(val) == "function" then
482 return "loadstring(%q)" % get_bytecode(val)
483 elseif type(val) == "table" then
484 return "{ " .. _serialize_table(val, seen) .. " }"
485 else
486 return '"[unhandled data type:' .. type(val) .. ']"'
487 end
488 end
489
490 --- Restore data previously serialized with serialize_data().
491 -- @param str String containing the data to restore
492 -- @return Value containing the restored data structure
493 -- @see serialize_data
494 -- @see get_bytecode
495 function restore_data(str)
496 return loadstring("return " .. str)()
497 end
498
499
500 --
501 -- Byte code manipulation routines
502 --
503
504 --- Return the current runtime bytecode of the given data. The byte code
505 -- will be stripped before it is returned.
506 -- @param val Value to return as bytecode
507 -- @return String value containing the bytecode of the given data
508 function get_bytecode(val)
509 local code
510
511 if type(val) == "function" then
512 code = string.dump(val)
513 else
514 code = string.dump( loadstring( "return " .. serialize_data(val) ) )
515 end
516
517 return code and strip_bytecode(code)
518 end
519
520 --- Strips unnescessary lua bytecode from given string. Information like line
521 -- numbers and debugging numbers will be discarded. Original version by
522 -- Peter Cawley (http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2008-02/msg01158.html)
523 -- @param code String value containing the original lua byte code
524 -- @return String value containing the stripped lua byte code
525 function strip_bytecode(code)
526 local version, format, endian, int, size, ins, num, lnum = code:byte(5, 12)
527 local subint
528 if endian == 1 then
529 subint = function(code, i, l)
530 local val = 0
531 for n = l, 1, -1 do
532 val = val * 256 + code:byte(i + n - 1)
533 end
534 return val, i + l
535 end
536 else
537 subint = function(code, i, l)
538 local val = 0
539 for n = 1, l, 1 do
540 val = val * 256 + code:byte(i + n - 1)
541 end
542 return val, i + l
543 end
544 end
545
546 local strip_function
547 strip_function = function(code)
548 local count, offset = subint(code, 1, size)
549 local stripped, dirty = string.rep("\0", size), offset + count
550 offset = offset + count + int * 2 + 4
551 offset = offset + int + subint(code, offset, int) * ins
552 count, offset = subint(code, offset, int)
553 for n = 1, count do
554 local t
555 t, offset = subint(code, offset, 1)
556 if t == 1 then
557 offset = offset + 1
558 elseif t == 4 then
559 offset = offset + size + subint(code, offset, size)
560 elseif t == 3 then
561 offset = offset + num
562 elseif t == 254 or t == 9 then
563 offset = offset + lnum
564 end
565 end
566 count, offset = subint(code, offset, int)
567 stripped = stripped .. code:sub(dirty, offset - 1)
568 for n = 1, count do
569 local proto, off = strip_function(code:sub(offset, -1))
570 stripped, offset = stripped .. proto, offset + off - 1
571 end
572 offset = offset + subint(code, offset, int) * int + int
573 count, offset = subint(code, offset, int)
574 for n = 1, count do
575 offset = offset + subint(code, offset, size) + size + int * 2
576 end
577 count, offset = subint(code, offset, int)
578 for n = 1, count do
579 offset = offset + subint(code, offset, size) + size
580 end
581 stripped = stripped .. string.rep("\0", int * 3)
582 return stripped, offset
583 end
584
585 return code:sub(1,12) .. strip_function(code:sub(13,-1))
586 end
587
588
589 --
590 -- Sorting iterator functions
591 --
592
593 function _sortiter( t, f )
594 local keys = { }
595
596 for k, v in pairs(t) do
597 keys[#keys+1] = k
598 end
599
600 local _pos = 0
601
602 table.sort( keys, f )
603
604 return function()
605 _pos = _pos + 1
606 if _pos <= #keys then
607 return keys[_pos], t[keys[_pos]]
608 end
609 end
610 end
611
612 --- Return a key, value iterator which returns the values sorted according to
613 -- the provided callback function.
614 -- @param t The table to iterate
615 -- @param f A callback function to decide the order of elements
616 -- @return Function value containing the corresponding iterator
617 function spairs(t,f)
618 return _sortiter( t, f )
619 end
620
621 --- Return a key, value iterator for the given table.
622 -- The table pairs are sorted by key.
623 -- @param t The table to iterate
624 -- @return Function value containing the corresponding iterator
625 function kspairs(t)
626 return _sortiter( t )
627 end
628
629 --- Return a key, value iterator for the given table.
630 -- The table pairs are sorted by value.
631 -- @param t The table to iterate
632 -- @return Function value containing the corresponding iterator
633 function vspairs(t)
634 return _sortiter( t, function (a,b) return t[a] < t[b] end )
635 end
636
637
638 --
639 -- System utility functions
640 --
641
642 --- Test whether the current system is operating in big endian mode.
643 -- @return Boolean value indicating whether system is big endian
644 function bigendian()
645 return string.byte(string.dump(function() end), 7) == 0
646 end
647
648 --- Execute given commandline and gather stdout.
649 -- @param command String containing command to execute
650 -- @return String containing the command's stdout
651 function exec(command)
652 local pp = io.popen(command)
653 local data = pp:read("*a")
654 pp:close()
655
656 return data
657 end
658
659 --- Return a line-buffered iterator over the output of given command.
660 -- @param command String containing the command to execute
661 -- @return Iterator
662 function execi(command)
663 local pp = io.popen(command)
664
665 return pp and function()
666 local line = pp:read()
667
668 if not line then
669 pp:close()
670 end
671
672 return line
673 end
674 end
675
676 -- Deprecated
677 function execl(command)
678 local pp = io.popen(command)
679 local line = ""
680 local data = {}
681
682 while true do
683 line = pp:read()
684 if (line == nil) then break end
685 data[#data+1] = line
686 end
687 pp:close()
688
689 return data
690 end
691
692 --- Returns the absolute path to LuCI base directory.
693 -- @return String containing the directory path
694 function libpath()
695 return require "luci.fs".dirname(ldebug.__file__)
696 end
697
698
699 --
700 -- Coroutine safe xpcall and pcall versions modified for Luci
701 -- original version:
702 -- coxpcall 1.13 - Copyright 2005 - Kepler Project (www.keplerproject.org)
703 --
704 -- Copyright © 2005 Kepler Project.
705 -- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
706 -- copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
707 -- to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
708 -- the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
709 -- and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
710 -- Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
711 --
712 -- The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
713 -- included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
714 --
715 -- THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
716 -- EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES
717 -- OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
718 -- IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM,
719 -- DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
720 -- TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE
721 -- OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
722
723 local performResume, handleReturnValue
724 local oldpcall, oldxpcall = pcall, xpcall
725 coxpt = {}
726 setmetatable(coxpt, {__mode = "kv"})
727
728 -- Identity function for copcall
729 local function copcall_id(trace, ...)
730 return ...
731 end
732
733 --- This is a coroutine-safe drop-in replacement for Lua's "xpcall"-function
734 -- @param f Lua function to be called protected
735 -- @param err Custom error handler
736 -- @param ... Parameters passed to the function
737 -- @return A boolean whether the function call succeeded and the return
738 -- values of either the function or the error handler
739 function coxpcall(f, err, ...)
740 local res, co = oldpcall(coroutine.create, f)
741 if not res then
742 local params = {...}
743 local newf = function() return f(unpack(params)) end
744 co = coroutine.create(newf)
745 end
746 local c = coroutine.running()
747 coxpt[co] = coxpt[c] or c or 0
748
749 return performResume(err, co, ...)
750 end
751
752 --- This is a coroutine-safe drop-in replacement for Lua's "pcall"-function
753 -- @param f Lua function to be called protected
754 -- @param ... Parameters passed to the function
755 -- @return A boolean whether the function call succeeded and the returns
756 -- values of the function or the error object
757 function copcall(f, ...)
758 return coxpcall(f, copcall_id, ...)
759 end
760
761 -- Handle return value of protected call
762 function handleReturnValue(err, co, status, ...)
763 if not status then
764 return false, err(debug.traceback(co, (...)), ...)
765 end
766 if coroutine.status(co) == 'suspended' then
767 return performResume(err, co, coroutine.yield(...))
768 else
769 return true, ...
770 end
771 end
772
773 -- Resume execution of protected function call
774 function performResume(err, co, ...)
775 return handleReturnValue(err, co, coroutine.resume(co, ...))
776 end