* libs/web: Changed caching behaviour of template library
[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 else
106 re = r_exec:format(v)
107 end
108 template = template:gsub("<%%"..tostring(k).."%%>", re)
109 end
110
111 return loadstring(template)
112 end
113
114 -- Oldstyle render shortcut
115 function render(name, scope, ...)
116 scope = scope or getfenv(2)
117 local s, t = luci.util.copcall(Template, name)
118 if not s then
119 error(t)
120 else
121 t:render(scope, ...)
122 end
123 end
124
125
126 -- Template class
127 Template = luci.util.class()
128
129 -- Shared template cache to store templates in to avoid unnecessary reloading
130 Template.cache = {}
131 setmetatable(Template.cache, {__mode = "v"})
132
133
134 -- Constructor - Reads and compiles the template on-demand
135 function Template.__init__(self, name)
136 self.template = self.cache[name]
137
138 -- Create a new namespace for this template
139 self.viewns = {}
140
141 -- Copy over from general namespace
142 luci.util.update(self.viewns, viewns)
143 if context.viewns then
144 luci.util.update(self.viewns, context.viewns)
145 end
146
147 -- If we have a cached template, skip compiling and loading
148 if self.template then
149 return
150 end
151
152 -- Enforce cache security
153 local cdir = compiledir .. "/" .. luci.sys.process.info("uid")
154
155 -- Compile and build
156 local sourcefile = viewdir .. "/" .. name .. ".htm"
157 local compiledfile = cdir .. "/" .. luci.http.urlencode(name) .. ".lua"
158 local err
159
160 if compiler_mode == "file" then
161 local tplmt = luci.fs.mtime(sourcefile)
162 local commt = luci.fs.mtime(compiledfile)
163
164 if not luci.fs.mtime(cdir) then
165 luci.fs.mkdir(cdir, true)
166 luci.fs.chmod(luci.fs.dirname(cdir), "a+rxw")
167 end
168
169 -- Build if there is no compiled file or if compiled file is outdated
170 if ((commt == nil) and not (tplmt == nil))
171 or (not (commt == nil) and not (tplmt == nil) and commt < tplmt) then
172 local source
173 source, err = luci.fs.readfile(sourcefile)
174
175 if source then
176 local compiled, err = compile(source)
177
178 luci.fs.writefile(compiledfile, luci.util.dump(compiled))
179 self.template = compiled
180 end
181 else
182 self.template, err = loadfile(compiledfile)
183 end
184
185 elseif compiler_mode == "none" then
186 self.template, err = loadfile(self.compiledfile)
187
188 elseif compiler_mode == "memory" then
189 local source
190 source, err = luci.fs.readfile(sourcefile)
191 if source then
192 self.template, err = compile(source)
193 end
194
195 end
196
197 -- If we have no valid template throw error, otherwise cache the template
198 if not self.template then
199 error(err)
200 else
201 self.cache[name] = self.template
202 end
203 end
204
205
206 -- Renders a template
207 function Template.render(self, scope)
208 scope = scope or getfenv(2)
209
210 -- Save old environment
211 local oldfenv = getfenv(self.template)
212
213 -- Put our predefined objects in the scope of the template
214 luci.util.resfenv(self.template)
215 luci.util.updfenv(self.template, scope)
216 luci.util.updfenv(self.template, self.viewns)
217
218 -- Now finally render the thing
219 self.template()
220
221 -- Reset environment
222 setfenv(self.template, oldfenv)
223 end