libs/web: Added template comments
[project/luci.git] / libs / web / luasrc / template.lua
1 --[[
2 LuCI - Template Parser
3
4 Description:
5 A template parser supporting includes, translations, Lua code blocks
6 and more. It can be used either as a compiler or as an interpreter.
7
8 FileId: $Id$
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 module("luci.template", package.seeall)
27
28 require("luci.config")
29 require("luci.util")
30 require("luci.fs")
31 require("luci.http")
32
33 luci.config.template = luci.config.template or {}
34
35 viewdir = luci.config.template.viewdir or luci.sys.libpath() .. "/view"
36 compiledir = luci.config.template.compiledir or luci.sys.libpath() .. "/view"
37
38
39 -- Compile modes:
40 -- none: Never compile, only use precompiled data from files
41 -- memory: Always compile, do not save compiled files, ignore precompiled
42 -- file: Compile on demand, save compiled files, update precompiled
43 compiler_mode = luci.config.template.compiler_mode or "memory"
44
45
46 -- Define the namespace for template modules
47 context = luci.util.threadlocal()
48
49 viewns = {
50 include = function(name) Template(name):render(getfenv(2)) end,
51 }
52
53 -- Compiles a given template into an executable Lua module
54 function compile(template)
55 -- Search all <% %> expressions (remember: Lua table indexes begin with #1)
56 local function expr_add(command)
57 table.insert(expr, command)
58 return "<%" .. tostring(#expr) .. "%>"
59 end
60
61 -- As "expr" should be local, we have to assign it to the "expr_add" scope
62 local expr = {}
63 luci.util.extfenv(expr_add, "expr", expr)
64
65 -- Save all expressiosn to table "expr"
66 template = template:gsub("<%%(.-)%%>", expr_add)
67
68 local function sanitize(s)
69 s = luci.util.escape(s)
70 s = luci.util.escape(s, "'")
71 s = luci.util.escape(s, "\n")
72 return s
73 end
74
75 -- Escape and sanitize all the template (all non-expressions)
76 template = sanitize(template)
77
78 -- Template module header/footer declaration
79 local header = "write('"
80 local footer = "')"
81
82 template = header .. template .. footer
83
84 -- Replacements
85 local r_include = "')\ninclude('%s')\nwrite('"
86 local r_i18n = "'..translate('%1','%2')..'"
87 local r_i18n2 = "'..translate('%1', '')..'"
88 local r_pexec = "'..(%s or '')..'"
89 local r_exec = "')\n%s\nwrite('"
90
91 -- Parse the expressions
92 for k,v in pairs(expr) do
93 local p = v:sub(1, 1)
94 local re = nil
95 if p == "+" then
96 re = r_include:format(sanitize(string.sub(v, 2)))
97 elseif p == ":" then
98 if v:find(" ") then
99 re = sanitize(v):gsub(":(.-) (.*)", r_i18n)
100 else
101 re = sanitize(v):gsub(":(.+)", r_i18n2)
102 end
103 elseif p == "=" then
104 re = r_pexec:format(v:sub(2))
105 elseif p == "#" then
106 re = ""
107 else
108 re = r_exec:format(v)
109 end
110 template = template:gsub("<%%"..tostring(k).."%%>", re)
111 end
112
113 return loadstring(template)
114 end
115
116 -- Oldstyle render shortcut
117 function render(name, scope, ...)
118 scope = scope or getfenv(2)
119 local s, t = luci.util.copcall(Template, name)
120 if not s then
121 error(t)
122 else
123 t:render(scope, ...)
124 end
125 end
126
127
128 -- Template class
129 Template = luci.util.class()
130
131 -- Shared template cache to store templates in to avoid unnecessary reloading
132 Template.cache = {}
133 setmetatable(Template.cache, {__mode = "v"})
134
135
136 -- Constructor - Reads and compiles the template on-demand
137 function Template.__init__(self, name)
138 self.template = self.cache[name]
139
140 -- Create a new namespace for this template
141 self.viewns = {}
142
143 -- Copy over from general namespace
144 luci.util.update(self.viewns, viewns)
145 if context.viewns then
146 luci.util.update(self.viewns, context.viewns)
147 end
148
149 -- If we have a cached template, skip compiling and loading
150 if self.template then
151 return
152 end
153
154 -- Enforce cache security
155 local cdir = compiledir .. "/" .. luci.sys.process.info("uid")
156
157 -- Compile and build
158 local sourcefile = viewdir .. "/" .. name .. ".htm"
159 local compiledfile = cdir .. "/" .. luci.http.urlencode(name) .. ".lua"
160 local err
161
162 if compiler_mode == "file" then
163 local tplmt = luci.fs.mtime(sourcefile)
164 local commt = luci.fs.mtime(compiledfile)
165
166 if not luci.fs.mtime(cdir) then
167 luci.fs.mkdir(cdir, true)
168 luci.fs.chmod(luci.fs.dirname(cdir), "a+rxw")
169 end
170
171 -- Build if there is no compiled file or if compiled file is outdated
172 if ((commt == nil) and not (tplmt == nil))
173 or (not (commt == nil) and not (tplmt == nil) and commt < tplmt) then
174 local source
175 source, err = luci.fs.readfile(sourcefile)
176
177 if source then
178 local compiled, err = compile(source)
179
180 luci.fs.writefile(compiledfile, luci.util.dump(compiled))
181 self.template = compiled
182 end
183 else
184 self.template, err = loadfile(compiledfile)
185 end
186
187 elseif compiler_mode == "none" then
188 self.template, err = loadfile(self.compiledfile)
189
190 elseif compiler_mode == "memory" then
191 local source
192 source, err = luci.fs.readfile(sourcefile)
193 if source then
194 self.template, err = compile(source)
195 end
196
197 end
198
199 -- If we have no valid template throw error, otherwise cache the template
200 if not self.template then
201 error(err)
202 else
203 self.cache[name] = self.template
204 end
205 end
206
207
208 -- Renders a template
209 function Template.render(self, scope)
210 scope = scope or getfenv(2)
211
212 -- Save old environment
213 local oldfenv = getfenv(self.template)
214
215 -- Put our predefined objects in the scope of the template
216 luci.util.resfenv(self.template)
217 luci.util.updfenv(self.template, scope)
218 luci.util.updfenv(self.template, self.viewns)
219
220 -- Now finally render the thing
221 self.template()
222
223 -- Reset environment
224 setfenv(self.template, oldfenv)
225 end