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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.
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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 getfenv, setfenv = getfenv, setfenv
37 local rawget, rawset, unpack = rawget, rawset, unpack
38 local tostring, type, assert = tostring, type, assert
39 local ipairs, pairs, loadstring = ipairs, pairs, loadstring
40 local require, pcall, xpcall = require, pcall, xpcall
41
42 --- LuCI utility functions.
43 module "luci.util"
44
45 --
46 -- Pythonic string formatting extension
47 --
48 getmetatable("").__mod = function(a, b)
49 if not b then
50 return a
51 elseif type(b) == "table" then
52 return a:format(unpack(b))
53 else
54 return a:format(b)
55 end
56 end
57
58
59 --
60 -- Class helper routines
61 --
62
63 -- Instantiates a class
64 local function _instantiate(class, ...)
65 local inst = setmetatable({}, {__index = class})
66
67 if inst.__init__ then
68 inst:__init__(...)
69 end
70
71 return inst
72 end
73
74 --- Create a Class object (Python-style object model).
75 -- The class object can be instantiated by calling itself.
76 -- Any class functions or shared parameters can be attached to this object.
77 -- Attaching a table to the class object makes this table shared between
78 -- all instances of this class. For object parameters use the __init__ function.
79 -- Classes can inherit member functions and values from a base class.
80 -- Class can be instantiated by calling them. All parameters will be passed
81 -- to the __init__ function of this class - if such a function exists.
82 -- The __init__ function must be used to set any object parameters that are not shared
83 -- with other objects of this class. Any return values will be ignored.
84 -- @param base The base class to inherit from (optional)
85 -- @return A class object
86 -- @see instanceof
87 -- @see clone
88 function class(base)
89 return setmetatable({}, {
90 __call = _instantiate,
91 __index = base
92 })
93 end
94
95 --- Test whether the given object is an instance of the given class.
96 -- @param object Object instance
97 -- @param class Class object to test against
98 -- @return Boolean indicating whether the object is an instance
99 -- @see class
100 -- @see clone
101 function instanceof(object, class)
102 local meta = getmetatable(object)
103 while meta and meta.__index do
104 if meta.__index == class then
105 return true
106 end
107 meta = getmetatable(meta.__index)
108 end
109 return false
110 end
111
112
113 --
114 -- Scope manipulation routines
115 --
116
117 --- Create a new or get an already existing thread local store associated with
118 -- the current active coroutine. A thread local store is private a table object
119 -- whose values can't be accessed from outside of the running coroutine.
120 -- @return Table value representing the corresponding thread local store
121 function threadlocal()
122 local tbl = {}
123
124 local function get(self, key)
125 local c = coroutine.running()
126 local thread = coxpt[c] or c or 0
127 if not rawget(self, thread) then
128 return nil
129 end
130 return rawget(self, thread)[key]
131 end
132
133 local function set(self, key, value)
134 local c = coroutine.running()
135 local thread = coxpt[c] or c or 0
136 if not rawget(self, thread) then
137 rawset(self, thread, {})
138 end
139 rawget(self, thread)[key] = value
140 end
141
142 setmetatable(tbl, {__index = get, __newindex = set, __mode = "k"})
143
144 return tbl
145 end
146
147
148 --
149 -- Debugging routines
150 --
151
152 --- Write given object to stderr.
153 -- @param obj Value to write to stderr
154 -- @return Boolean indicating whether the write operation was successful
155 function perror(obj)
156 return io.stderr:write(tostring(obj) .. "\n")
157 end
158
159 --- Recursively dumps a table to stdout, useful for testing and debugging.
160 -- @param t Table value to dump
161 -- @param maxdepth Maximum depth
162 -- @return Always nil
163 function dumptable(t, maxdepth, i, seen)
164 i = i or 0
165 seen = seen or setmetatable({}, {__mode="k"})
166
167 for k,v in pairs(t) do
168 perror(string.rep("\t", i) .. tostring(k) .. "\t" .. tostring(v))
169 if type(v) == "table" and (not maxdepth or i < maxdepth) then
170 if not seen[v] then
171 seen[v] = true
172 dumptable(v, maxdepth, i+1, seen)
173 else
174 perror(string.rep("\t", i) .. "*** RECURSION ***")
175 end
176 end
177 end
178 end
179
180
181 --
182 -- String and data manipulation routines
183 --
184
185 --- Escapes all occurrences of the given character in given string.
186 -- @param s String value containing unescaped characters
187 -- @param c String value with character to escape (optional, defaults to "\")
188 -- @return String value with each occurrence of character escaped with "\"
189 function escape(s, c)
190 c = c or "\\"
191 return s:gsub(c, "\\" .. c)
192 end
193
194 --- Create valid XML PCDATA from given string.
195 -- @param value String value containing the data to escape
196 -- @return String value containing the escaped data
197 function pcdata(value)
198 return value and tostring(value):gsub("[&\"'<>]", {
199 ["&"] = "&amp;",
200 ['"'] = "&quot;",
201 ["'"] = "&apos;",
202 ["<"] = "&lt;",
203 [">"] = "&gt;"
204 })
205 end
206
207 --- Strip HTML tags from given string.
208 -- @param value String containing the HTML text
209 -- @return String with HTML tags stripped of
210 function striptags(s)
211 return pcdata(s:gsub("</?[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9:_%-]*[^>]*>", " "):gsub("%s+", " "))
212 end
213
214 --- Splits given string on a defined separator sequence and return a table
215 -- containing the resulting substrings. The optional max parameter specifies
216 -- the number of bytes to process, regardless of the actual length of the given
217 -- string. The optional last parameter, regex, specifies whether the separator
218 -- sequence is interpreted as regular expression.
219 -- @param str String value containing the data to split up
220 -- @param pat String with separator pattern (optional, defaults to "\n")
221 -- @param max Maximum times to split (optional)
222 -- @param regex Boolean indicating whether to interpret the separator
223 -- pattern as regular expression (optional, default is false)
224 -- @return Table containing the resulting substrings
225 function split(str, pat, max, regex)
226 pat = pat or "\n"
227 max = max or #str
228
229 local t = {}
230 local c = 1
231
232 if #str == 0 then
233 return {""}
234 end
235
236 if #pat == 0 then
237 return nil
238 end
239
240 if max == 0 then
241 return str
242 end
243
244 repeat
245 local s, e = str:find(pat, c, not regex)
246 max = max - 1
247 if s and max < 0 then
248 t[#t+1] = str:sub(c)
249 else
250 t[#t+1] = str:sub(c, s and s - 1)
251 end
252 c = e and e + 1 or #str + 1
253 until not s or max < 0
254
255 return t
256 end
257
258 --- Remove leading and trailing whitespace from given string value.
259 -- @param str String value containing whitespace padded data
260 -- @return String value with leading and trailing space removed
261 function trim(str)
262 return (str:gsub("^%s*(.-)%s*$", "%1"))
263 end
264
265 --- Parse certain units from the given string and return the canonical integer
266 -- value or 0 if the unit is unknown. Upper- or lower case is irrelevant.
267 -- Recognized units are:
268 -- o "y" - one year (60*60*24*366)
269 -- o "m" - one month (60*60*24*31)
270 -- o "w" - one week (60*60*24*7)
271 -- o "d" - one day (60*60*24)
272 -- o "h" - one hour (60*60)
273 -- o "min" - one minute (60)
274 -- o "kb" - one kilobyte (1024)
275 -- o "mb" - one megabyte (1024*1024)
276 -- o "gb" - one gigabyte (1024*1024*1024)
277 -- o "kib" - one si kilobyte (1000)
278 -- o "mib" - one si megabyte (1000*1000)
279 -- o "gib" - one si gigabyte (1000*1000*1000)
280 -- @param ustr String containing a numerical value with trailing unit
281 -- @return Number containing the canonical value
282 function parse_units(ustr)
283
284 local val = 0
285
286 -- unit map
287 local map = {
288 -- date stuff
289 y = 60 * 60 * 24 * 366,
290 m = 60 * 60 * 24 * 31,
291 w = 60 * 60 * 24 * 7,
292 d = 60 * 60 * 24,
293 h = 60 * 60,
294 min = 60,
295
296 -- storage sizes
297 kb = 1024,
298 mb = 1024 * 1024,
299 gb = 1024 * 1024 * 1024,
300
301 -- storage sizes (si)
302 kib = 1000,
303 mib = 1000 * 1000,
304 gib = 1000 * 1000 * 1000
305 }
306
307 -- parse input string
308 for spec in ustr:lower():gmatch("[0-9%.]+[a-zA-Z]*") do
309
310 local num = spec:gsub("[^0-9%.]+$","")
311 local spn = spec:gsub("^[0-9%.]+", "")
312
313 if map[spn] or map[spn:sub(1,1)] then
314 val = val + num * ( map[spn] or map[spn:sub(1,1)] )
315 else
316 val = val + num
317 end
318 end
319
320
321 return val
322 end
323
324 --- Combines two or more numerically indexed tables into one.
325 -- @param tbl1 Table value to combine
326 -- @param tbl2 Table value to combine
327 -- @param ... More tables to combine
328 -- @return Table value containing all values of given tables
329 function combine(...)
330 local result = {}
331 for i, a in ipairs(arg) do
332 for j, v in ipairs(a) do
333 result[#result+1] = v
334 end
335 end
336 return result
337 end
338
339 --- Checks whether the given table contains the given value.
340 -- @param table Table value
341 -- @param value Value to search within the given table
342 -- @return Boolean indicating whether the given value occurs within table
343 function contains(table, value)
344 for k, v in pairs(table) do
345 if value == v then
346 return k
347 end
348 end
349 return false
350 end
351
352 --- Update values in given table with the values from the second given table.
353 -- Both table are - in fact - merged together.
354 -- @param t Table which should be updated
355 -- @param updates Table containing the values to update
356 -- @return Always nil
357 function update(t, updates)
358 for k, v in pairs(updates) do
359 t[k] = v
360 end
361 end
362
363 --- Retrieve all keys of given associative table.
364 -- @param t Table to extract keys from
365 -- @return Sorted table containing the keys
366 function keys(t)
367 local keys = { }
368 if t then
369 for k, _ in kspairs(t) do
370 keys[#keys+1] = k
371 end
372 end
373 return keys
374 end
375
376 --- Clones the given object and return it's copy.
377 -- @param object Table value to clone
378 -- @param deep Boolean indicating whether to do recursive cloning
379 -- @return Cloned table value
380 function clone(object, deep)
381 local copy = {}
382
383 for k, v in pairs(object) do
384 if deep and type(v) == "table" then
385 v = clone(v, deep)
386 end
387 copy[k] = v
388 end
389
390 return setmetatable(copy, getmetatable(object))
391 end
392
393
394 --- Create a dynamic table which automatically creates subtables.
395 -- @return Dynamic Table
396 function dtable()
397 return setmetatable({}, { __index =
398 function(tbl, key)
399 return rawget(tbl, key)
400 or rawget(rawset(tbl, key, dtable()), key)
401 end
402 })
403 end
404
405
406 -- Serialize the contents of a table value.
407 function _serialize_table(t, seen)
408 assert(not seen[t], "Recursion detected.")
409 seen[t] = true
410
411 local data = ""
412 local idata = ""
413 local ilen = 0
414
415 for k, v in pairs(t) do
416 if type(k) ~= "number" or k < 1 or math.floor(k) ~= k or ( k - #t ) > 3 then
417 k = serialize_data(k, seen)
418 v = serialize_data(v, seen)
419 data = data .. ( #data > 0 and ", " or "" ) ..
420 '[' .. k .. '] = ' .. v
421 elseif k > ilen then
422 ilen = k
423 end
424 end
425
426 for i = 1, ilen do
427 local v = serialize_data(t[i], seen)
428 idata = idata .. ( #idata > 0 and ", " or "" ) .. v
429 end
430
431 return idata .. ( #data > 0 and #idata > 0 and ", " or "" ) .. data
432 end
433
434 --- Recursively serialize given data to lua code, suitable for restoring
435 -- with loadstring().
436 -- @param val Value containing the data to serialize
437 -- @return String value containing the serialized code
438 -- @see restore_data
439 -- @see get_bytecode
440 function serialize_data(val, seen)
441 seen = seen or setmetatable({}, {__mode="k"})
442
443 if val == nil then
444 return "nil"
445 elseif type(val) == "number" then
446 return val
447 elseif type(val) == "string" then
448 return "%q" % val
449 elseif type(val) == "boolean" then
450 return val and "true" or "false"
451 elseif type(val) == "function" then
452 return "loadstring(%q)" % get_bytecode(val)
453 elseif type(val) == "table" then
454 return "{ " .. _serialize_table(val, seen) .. " }"
455 else
456 return '"[unhandled data type:' .. type(val) .. ']"'
457 end
458 end
459
460 --- Restore data previously serialized with serialize_data().
461 -- @param str String containing the data to restore
462 -- @return Value containing the restored data structure
463 -- @see serialize_data
464 -- @see get_bytecode
465 function restore_data(str)
466 return loadstring("return " .. str)()
467 end
468
469
470 --
471 -- Byte code manipulation routines
472 --
473
474 --- Return the current runtime bytecode of the given data. The byte code
475 -- will be stripped before it is returned.
476 -- @param val Value to return as bytecode
477 -- @return String value containing the bytecode of the given data
478 function get_bytecode(val)
479 local code
480
481 if type(val) == "function" then
482 code = string.dump(val)
483 else
484 code = string.dump( loadstring( "return " .. serialize_data(val) ) )
485 end
486
487 return code and strip_bytecode(code)
488 end
489
490 --- Strips unnescessary lua bytecode from given string. Information like line
491 -- numbers and debugging numbers will be discarded. Original version by
492 -- Peter Cawley (http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2008-02/msg01158.html)
493 -- @param code String value containing the original lua byte code
494 -- @return String value containing the stripped lua byte code
495 function strip_bytecode(code)
496 local version, format, endian, int, size, ins, num, lnum = code:byte(5, 12)
497 local subint
498 if endian == 1 then
499 subint = function(code, i, l)
500 local val = 0
501 for n = l, 1, -1 do
502 val = val * 256 + code:byte(i + n - 1)
503 end
504 return val, i + l
505 end
506 else
507 subint = function(code, i, l)
508 local val = 0
509 for n = 1, l, 1 do
510 val = val * 256 + code:byte(i + n - 1)
511 end
512 return val, i + l
513 end
514 end
515
516 local strip_function
517 strip_function = function(code)
518 local count, offset = subint(code, 1, size)
519 local stripped, dirty = string.rep("\0", size), offset + count
520 offset = offset + count + int * 2 + 4
521 offset = offset + int + subint(code, offset, int) * ins
522 count, offset = subint(code, offset, int)
523 for n = 1, count do
524 local t
525 t, offset = subint(code, offset, 1)
526 if t == 1 then
527 offset = offset + 1
528 elseif t == 4 then
529 offset = offset + size + subint(code, offset, size)
530 elseif t == 3 then
531 offset = offset + num
532 elseif t == 254 or t == 9 then
533 offset = offset + lnum
534 end
535 end
536 count, offset = subint(code, offset, int)
537 stripped = stripped .. code:sub(dirty, offset - 1)
538 for n = 1, count do
539 local proto, off = strip_function(code:sub(offset, -1))
540 stripped, offset = stripped .. proto, offset + off - 1
541 end
542 offset = offset + subint(code, offset, int) * int + int
543 count, offset = subint(code, offset, int)
544 for n = 1, count do
545 offset = offset + subint(code, offset, size) + size + int * 2
546 end
547 count, offset = subint(code, offset, int)
548 for n = 1, count do
549 offset = offset + subint(code, offset, size) + size
550 end
551 stripped = stripped .. string.rep("\0", int * 3)
552 return stripped, offset
553 end
554
555 return code:sub(1,12) .. strip_function(code:sub(13,-1))
556 end
557
558
559 --
560 -- Sorting iterator functions
561 --
562
563 function _sortiter( t, f )
564 local keys = { }
565
566 for k, v in pairs(t) do
567 keys[#keys+1] = k
568 end
569
570 local _pos = 0
571
572 table.sort( keys, f )
573
574 return function()
575 _pos = _pos + 1
576 if _pos <= #keys 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