Optimized luci.util.class
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1 --[[
2 LuCI - Utility library
3
4 Description:
5 Several common useful Lua functions
6
7 FileId:
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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.
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18
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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 if not value then return end
198 value = tostring(value)
199 value = value:gsub("&", "&amp;")
200 value = value:gsub('"', "&quot;")
201 value = value:gsub("'", "&apos;")
202 value = value:gsub("<", "&lt;")
203 return value:gsub(">", "&gt;")
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*$", "%1"))
262 end
263
264 --- Parse certain units from the given string and return the canonical integer
265 -- value or 0 if the unit is unknown. Upper- or lower case is irrelevant.
266 -- Recognized units are:
267 -- o "y" - one year (60*60*24*366)
268 -- o "m" - one month (60*60*24*31)
269 -- o "w" - one week (60*60*24*7)
270 -- o "d" - one day (60*60*24)
271 -- o "h" - one hour (60*60)
272 -- o "min" - one minute (60)
273 -- o "kb" - one kilobyte (1024)
274 -- o "mb" - one megabyte (1024*1024)
275 -- o "gb" - one gigabyte (1024*1024*1024)
276 -- o "kib" - one si kilobyte (1000)
277 -- o "mib" - one si megabyte (1000*1000)
278 -- o "gib" - one si gigabyte (1000*1000*1000)
279 -- @param ustr String containing a numerical value with trailing unit
280 -- @return Number containing the canonical value
281 function parse_units(ustr)
282
283 local val = 0
284
285 -- unit map
286 local map = {
287 -- date stuff
288 y = 60 * 60 * 24 * 366,
289 m = 60 * 60 * 24 * 31,
290 w = 60 * 60 * 24 * 7,
291 d = 60 * 60 * 24,
292 h = 60 * 60,
293 min = 60,
294
295 -- storage sizes
296 kb = 1024,
297 mb = 1024 * 1024,
298 gb = 1024 * 1024 * 1024,
299
300 -- storage sizes (si)
301 kib = 1000,
302 mib = 1000 * 1000,
303 gib = 1000 * 1000 * 1000
304 }
305
306 -- parse input string
307 for spec in ustr:lower():gmatch("[0-9%.]+[a-zA-Z]*") do
308
309 local num = spec:gsub("[^0-9%.]+$","")
310 local spn = spec:gsub("^[0-9%.]+", "")
311
312 if map[spn] or map[spn:sub(1,1)] then
313 val = val + num * ( map[spn] or map[spn:sub(1,1)] )
314 else
315 val = val + num
316 end
317 end
318
319
320 return val
321 end
322
323 --- Combines two or more numerically indexed tables into one.
324 -- @param tbl1 Table value to combine
325 -- @param tbl2 Table value to combine
326 -- @param ... More tables to combine
327 -- @return Table value containing all values of given tables
328 function combine(...)
329 local result = {}
330 for i, a in ipairs(arg) do
331 for j, v in ipairs(a) do
332 result[#result+1] = v
333 end
334 end
335 return result
336 end
337
338 --- Checks whether the given table contains the given value.
339 -- @param table Table value
340 -- @param value Value to search within the given table
341 -- @return Boolean indicating whether the given value occurs within table
342 function contains(table, value)
343 for k, v in pairs(table) do
344 if value == v then
345 return k
346 end
347 end
348 return false
349 end
350
351 --- Update values in given table with the values from the second given table.
352 -- Both table are - in fact - merged together.
353 -- @param t Table which should be updated
354 -- @param updates Table containing the values to update
355 -- @return Always nil
356 function update(t, updates)
357 for k, v in pairs(updates) do
358 t[k] = v
359 end
360 end
361
362 --- Retrieve all keys of given associative table.
363 -- @param t Table to extract keys from
364 -- @return Sorted table containing the keys
365 function keys(t)
366 local keys = { }
367 if t then
368 for k, _ in kspairs(t) do
369 keys[#keys+1] = k
370 end
371 end
372 return keys
373 end
374
375 --- Clones the given object and return it's copy.
376 -- @param object Table value to clone
377 -- @param deep Boolean indicating whether to do recursive cloning
378 -- @return Cloned table value
379 function clone(object, deep)
380 local copy = {}
381
382 for k, v in pairs(object) do
383 if deep and type(v) == "table" then
384 v = clone(v, deep)
385 end
386 copy[k] = v
387 end
388
389 return setmetatable(copy, getmetatable(object))
390 end
391
392
393 --- Create a dynamic table which automatically creates subtables.
394 -- @return Dynamic Table
395 function dtable()
396 return setmetatable({}, { __index =
397 function(tbl, key)
398 return rawget(tbl, key)
399 or rawget(rawset(tbl, key, dtable()), key)
400 end
401 })
402 end
403
404
405 -- Serialize the contents of a table value.
406 function _serialize_table(t, seen)
407 assert(not seen[t], "Recursion detected.")
408 seen[t] = true
409
410 local data = ""
411 local idata = ""
412 local ilen = 0
413
414 for k, v in pairs(t) do
415 if type(k) ~= "number" or k < 1 or math.floor(k) ~= k or ( k - #t ) > 3 then
416 k = serialize_data(k, seen)
417 v = serialize_data(v, seen)
418 data = data .. ( #data > 0 and ", " or "" ) ..
419 '[' .. k .. '] = ' .. v
420 elseif k > ilen then
421 ilen = k
422 end
423 end
424
425 for i = 1, ilen do
426 local v = serialize_data(t[i], seen)
427 idata = idata .. ( #idata > 0 and ", " or "" ) .. v
428 end
429
430 return idata .. ( #data > 0 and #idata > 0 and ", " or "" ) .. data
431 end
432
433 --- Recursively serialize given data to lua code, suitable for restoring
434 -- with loadstring().
435 -- @param val Value containing the data to serialize
436 -- @return String value containing the serialized code
437 -- @see restore_data
438 -- @see get_bytecode
439 function serialize_data(val, seen)
440 seen = seen or setmetatable({}, {__mode="k"})
441
442 if val == nil then
443 return "nil"
444 elseif type(val) == "number" then
445 return val
446 elseif type(val) == "string" then
447 return "%q" % val
448 elseif type(val) == "boolean" then
449 return val and "true" or "false"
450 elseif type(val) == "function" then
451 return "loadstring(%q)" % get_bytecode(val)
452 elseif type(val) == "table" then
453 return "{ " .. _serialize_table(val, seen) .. " }"
454 else
455 return '"[unhandled data type:' .. type(val) .. ']"'
456 end
457 end
458
459 --- Restore data previously serialized with serialize_data().
460 -- @param str String containing the data to restore
461 -- @return Value containing the restored data structure
462 -- @see serialize_data
463 -- @see get_bytecode
464 function restore_data(str)
465 return loadstring("return " .. str)()
466 end
467
468
469 --
470 -- Byte code manipulation routines
471 --
472
473 --- Return the current runtime bytecode of the given data. The byte code
474 -- will be stripped before it is returned.
475 -- @param val Value to return as bytecode
476 -- @return String value containing the bytecode of the given data
477 function get_bytecode(val)
478 local code
479
480 if type(val) == "function" then
481 code = string.dump(val)
482 else
483 code = string.dump( loadstring( "return " .. serialize_data(val) ) )
484 end
485
486 return code and strip_bytecode(code)
487 end
488
489 --- Strips unnescessary lua bytecode from given string. Information like line
490 -- numbers and debugging numbers will be discarded. Original version by
491 -- Peter Cawley (http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2008-02/msg01158.html)
492 -- @param code String value containing the original lua byte code
493 -- @return String value containing the stripped lua byte code
494 function strip_bytecode(code)
495 local version, format, endian, int, size, ins, num, lnum = code:byte(5, 12)
496 local subint
497 if endian == 1 then
498 subint = function(code, i, l)
499 local val = 0
500 for n = l, 1, -1 do
501 val = val * 256 + code:byte(i + n - 1)
502 end
503 return val, i + l
504 end
505 else
506 subint = function(code, i, l)
507 local val = 0
508 for n = 1, l, 1 do
509 val = val * 256 + code:byte(i + n - 1)
510 end
511 return val, i + l
512 end
513 end
514
515 local strip_function
516 strip_function = function(code)
517 local count, offset = subint(code, 1, size)
518 local stripped, dirty = string.rep("\0", size), offset + count
519 offset = offset + count + int * 2 + 4
520 offset = offset + int + subint(code, offset, int) * ins
521 count, offset = subint(code, offset, int)
522 for n = 1, count do
523 local t
524 t, offset = subint(code, offset, 1)
525 if t == 1 then
526 offset = offset + 1
527 elseif t == 4 then
528 offset = offset + size + subint(code, offset, size)
529 elseif t == 3 then
530 offset = offset + num
531 elseif t == 254 or t == 9 then
532 offset = offset + lnum
533 end
534 end
535 count, offset = subint(code, offset, int)
536 stripped = stripped .. code:sub(dirty, offset - 1)
537 for n = 1, count do
538 local proto, off = strip_function(code:sub(offset, -1))
539 stripped, offset = stripped .. proto, offset + off - 1
540 end
541 offset = offset + subint(code, offset, int) * int + int
542 count, offset = subint(code, offset, int)
543 for n = 1, count do
544 offset = offset + subint(code, offset, size) + size + int * 2
545 end
546 count, offset = subint(code, offset, int)
547 for n = 1, count do
548 offset = offset + subint(code, offset, size) + size
549 end
550 stripped = stripped .. string.rep("\0", int * 3)
551 return stripped, offset
552 end
553
554 return code:sub(1,12) .. strip_function(code:sub(13,-1))
555 end
556
557
558 --
559 -- Sorting iterator functions
560 --
561
562 function _sortiter( t, f )
563 local keys = { }
564
565 for k, v in pairs(t) do
566 keys[#keys+1] = k
567 end
568
569 local _pos = 0
570 local _len = table.getn( keys )
571
572 table.sort( keys, f )
573
574 return function()
575 _pos = _pos + 1
576 if _pos <= _len then
577 return keys[_pos], t[keys[_pos]]
578 end
579 end
580 end
581
582 --- Return a key, value iterator which returns the values sorted according to
583 -- the provided callback function.
584 -- @param t The table to iterate
585 -- @param f A callback function to decide the order of elements
586 -- @return Function value containing the corresponding iterator
587 function spairs(t,f)
588 return _sortiter( t, f )
589 end
590
591 --- Return a key, value iterator for the given table.
592 -- The table pairs are sorted by key.
593 -- @param t The table to iterate
594 -- @return Function value containing the corresponding iterator
595 function kspairs(t)
596 return _sortiter( t )
597 end
598
599 --- Return a key, value iterator for the given table.
600 -- The table pairs are sorted by value.
601 -- @param t The table to iterate
602 -- @return Function value containing the corresponding iterator
603 function vspairs(t)
604 return _sortiter( t, function (a,b) return t[a] < t[b] end )
605 end
606
607
608 --
609 -- System utility functions
610 --
611
612 --- Test whether the current system is operating in big endian mode.
613 -- @return Boolean value indicating whether system is big endian
614 function bigendian()
615 return string.byte(string.dump(function() end), 7) == 0
616 end
617
618 --- Execute given commandline and gather stdout.
619 -- @param command String containing command to execute
620 -- @return String containing the command's stdout
621 function exec(command)
622 local pp = io.popen(command)
623 local data = pp:read("*a")
624 pp:close()
625
626 return data
627 end
628
629 --- Return a line-buffered iterator over the output of given command.
630 -- @param command String containing the command to execute
631 -- @return Iterator
632 function execi(command)
633 local pp = io.popen(command)
634
635 return pp and function()
636 local line = pp:read()
637
638 if not line then
639 pp:close()
640 end
641
642 return line
643 end
644 end
645
646 -- Deprecated
647 function execl(command)
648 local pp = io.popen(command)
649 local line = ""
650 local data = {}
651
652 while true do
653 line = pp:read()
654 if (line == nil) then break end
655 data[#data+1] = line
656 end
657 pp:close()
658
659 return data
660 end
661
662 --- Returns the absolute path to LuCI base directory.
663 -- @return String containing the directory path
664 function libpath()
665 return require "luci.fs".dirname(ldebug.__file__)
666 end
667
668
669 --
670 -- Coroutine safe xpcall and pcall versions modified for Luci
671 -- original version:
672 -- coxpcall 1.13 - Copyright 2005 - Kepler Project (www.keplerproject.org)
673 --
674 -- Copyright © 2005 Kepler Project.
675 -- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
676 -- copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
677 -- to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
678 -- the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
679 -- and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
680 -- Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
681 --
682 -- The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
683 -- included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
684 --
685 -- THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
686 -- EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES
687 -- OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
688 -- IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM,
689 -- DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
690 -- TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE
691 -- OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
692
693 local performResume, handleReturnValue
694 local oldpcall, oldxpcall = pcall, xpcall
695 coxpt = {}
696 setmetatable(coxpt, {__mode = "kv"})
697
698 -- Identity function for copcall
699 local function copcall_id(trace, ...)
700 return ...
701 end
702
703 --- This is a coroutine-safe drop-in replacement for Lua's "xpcall"-function
704 -- @param f Lua function to be called protected
705 -- @param err Custom error handler
706 -- @param ... Parameters passed to the function
707 -- @return A boolean whether the function call succeeded and the return
708 -- values of either the function or the error handler
709 function coxpcall(f, err, ...)
710 local res, co = oldpcall(coroutine.create, f)
711 if not res then
712 local params = {...}
713 local newf = function() return f(unpack(params)) end
714 co = coroutine.create(newf)
715 end
716 local c = coroutine.running()
717 coxpt[co] = coxpt[c] or c or 0
718
719 return performResume(err, co, ...)
720 end
721
722 --- This is a coroutine-safe drop-in replacement for Lua's "pcall"-function
723 -- @param f Lua function to be called protected
724 -- @param ... Parameters passed to the function
725 -- @return A boolean whether the function call succeeded and the returns
726 -- values of the function or the error object
727 function copcall(f, ...)
728 return coxpcall(f, copcall_id, ...)
729 end
730
731 -- Handle return value of protected call
732 function handleReturnValue(err, co, status, ...)
733 if not status then
734 return false, err(debug.traceback(co, (...)), ...)
735 end
736 if coroutine.status(co) == 'suspended' then
737 return performResume(err, co, coroutine.yield(...))
738 else
739 return true, ...
740 end
741 end
742
743 -- Resume execution of protected function call
744 function performResume(err, co, ...)
745 return handleReturnValue(err, co, coroutine.resume(co, ...))
746 end