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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
27 local util = require "luci.util"
28 local config = require "luci.config"
29 local tparser = require "luci.template.parser"
30
31 local tostring, pairs, loadstring = tostring, pairs, loadstring
32 local setmetatable, loadfile = setmetatable, loadfile
33 local getfenv, setfenv, rawget = getfenv, setfenv, rawget
34 local assert, type, error = assert, type, error
35
36 --- LuCI template library.
37 module "luci.template"
38
39 config.template = config.template or {}
40 viewdir = config.template.viewdir or util.libpath() .. "/view"
41
42
43 -- Define the namespace for template modules
44 context = util.threadlocal()
45
46 --- Render a certain template.
47 -- @param name Template name
48 -- @param scope Scope to assign to template (optional)
49 function render(name, scope)
50 return Template(name):render(scope or getfenv(2))
51 end
52
53
54 -- Template class
55 Template = util.class()
56
57 -- Shared template cache to store templates in to avoid unnecessary reloading
58 Template.cache = setmetatable({}, {__mode = "v"})
59
60
61 -- Constructor - Reads and compiles the template on-demand
62 function Template.__init__(self, name)
63
64 self.template = self.cache[name]
65 self.name = name
66
67 -- Create a new namespace for this template
68 self.viewns = context.viewns
69
70 -- If we have a cached template, skip compiling and loading
71 if not self.template then
72
73 -- Compile template
74 local err
75 local sourcefile = viewdir .. "/" .. name .. ".htm"
76
77 self.template, _, err = tparser.parse(sourcefile)
78
79 -- If we have no valid template throw error, otherwise cache the template
80 if not self.template then
81 error("Failed to load template '" .. name .. "'.\n" ..
82 "Error while parsing template '" .. sourcefile .. "'.\n" ..
83 "A syntax error occured near '" ..
84 (err or "(nil)"):gsub("\t", "\\t"):gsub("\n", "\\n") .. "'.")
85 else
86 self.cache[name] = self.template
87 end
88 end
89 end
90
91
92 -- Renders a template
93 function Template.render(self, scope)
94 scope = scope or getfenv(2)
95
96 -- Put our predefined objects in the scope of the template
97 setfenv(self.template, setmetatable({}, {__index =
98 function(tbl, key)
99 return rawget(tbl, key) or self.viewns[key] or scope[key]
100 end}))
101
102 -- Now finally render the thing
103 local stat, err = util.copcall(self.template)
104 if not stat then
105 error("Failed to execute template '" .. self.name .. "'.\n" ..
106 "A runtime error occured: " .. tostring(err or "(nil)"))
107 end
108 end