]]--
--- LuCI utility functions.
+--- LuCI utility functions.
module("luci.util", package.seeall)
--
-- Class helper routines
--
---- Creates a Class object (Python-style object model)
--- Creates a new class object which can be instantiated by calling itself.
+--- Create a Class object (Python-style object model).
+-- The class object can be instantiated by calling itself.
-- Any class functions or shared parameters can be attached to this object.
-- Attaching a table to the class object makes this table shared between
-- all instances of this class. For object parameters use the __init__ function.
--- Test whether the given object is an instance of the given class.
-- @param object Object instance
-- @param class Class object to test against
--- @return Boolean indicating wheather the object is an instance
+-- @return Boolean indicating whether the object is an instance
-- @see class
-- @see clone
function instanceof(object, class)
--- Write given object to stderr.
-- @param obj Value to write to stderr
--- @return Boolean indicating wheather the write operation was successful
+-- @return Boolean indicating whether the write operation was successful
function perror(obj)
return io.stderr:write(tostring(obj) .. "\n")
end
-- String and data manipulation routines
--
---- Escapes all occurences of the given character in given string.
+--- Escapes all occurrences of the given character in given string.
-- @param s String value containing unescaped characters
-- @param c String value with character to escape (optional, defaults to "\")
--- @return String value with each occurence of character escaped with "\"
+-- @return String value with each occurrence of character escaped with "\"
function escape(s, c)
c = c or "\\"
return s:gsub(c, "\\" .. c)
return value:gsub(">", ">")
end
---- Splits given string on a defined seperator sequence and return a table
+--- Splits given string on a defined separator sequence and return a table
-- containing the resulting substrings. The optional max parameter specifies
-- the number of bytes to process, regardless of the actual length of the given
--- string. The optional last parameter, regex, sepcifies wheather the separator
+-- string. The optional last parameter, regex, specifies whether the separator
-- sequence is interpreted as regular expression.
-- @param str String value containing the data to split up
-- @param pat String with separator pattern (optional, defaults to "\n")
--- @param max Num of bytes to process (optional, default is string length)
--- @param regexp Boolean indicating wheather to interprete the separator
+-- @param max Maximum times to split (optional)
+-- @param regex Boolean indicating whether to interpret the separator
-- pattern as regular expression (optional, default is false)
-- @return Table containing the resulting substrings
function split(str, pat, max, regex)
end
--- Parse certain units from the given string and return the canonical integer
--- value or 0 if the unit is unknown. Upper- or lowercase is irrelevant.
+-- value or 0 if the unit is unknown. Upper- or lower case is irrelevant.
-- Recognized units are:
-- o "y" - one year (60*60*24*366)
-- o "m" - one month (60*60*24*31)
--- Combines two or more numerically indexed tables into one.
-- @param tbl1 Table value to combine
-- @param tbl2 Table value to combine
--- @param tblN More values to combine
+-- @param ... More tables to combine
-- @return Table value containing all values of given tables
function combine(...)
local result = {}
--- Checks whether the given table contains the given value.
-- @param table Table value
-- @param value Value to search within the given table
--- @return Boolean indicating wheather the given value occurs within table
+-- @return Boolean indicating whether the given value occurs within table
function contains(table, value)
for k, v in pairs(table) do
if value == v then
--- Clones the given object and return it's copy.
-- @param object Table value to clone
--- @param deep Boolean indicating wheather to do recursive cloning
+-- @param deep Boolean indicating whether to do recursive cloning
-- @return Cloned table value
function clone(object, deep)
local copy = {}
end
+--- Create a dynamic table which automatically creates subtables.
+-- @return Dynamic Table
+function dtable()
+ return setmetatable({}, { __index =
+ function(tbl, key)
+ return rawget(tbl, key)
+ or rawget(rawset(tbl, key, dtable()), key)
+ end
+ })
+end
+
+
+-- Serialize the contents of a table value.
+function _serialize_table(t)
+ local data = ""
+ for k, v in pairs(t) do
+ k = serialize_data(k)
+ v = serialize_data(v)
+ data = data .. ( #data > 0 and ", " or "" ) ..
+ '[' .. k .. '] = ' .. v
+ end
+ return data
+end
+
+--- Recursively serialize given data to lua code, suitable for restoring
+-- with loadstring().
+-- @param val Value containing the data to serialize
+-- @return String value containing the serialized code
+-- @see restore_data
+-- @see get_bytecode
+function serialize_data(val)
+ if val == nil then
+ return "nil"
+ elseif type(val) == "number" then
+ return val
+ elseif type(val) == "string" then
+ return string.format("%q", val)
+ elseif type(val) == "boolean" then
+ return val and "true" or "false"
+ elseif type(val) == "function" then
+ return string.format("loadstring(%q)", get_bytecode(val))
+ elseif type(val) == "table" then
+ return "{ " .. _serialize_table(val) .. " }"
+ else
+ return '"[unhandled data type:' .. type(val) .. ']"'
+ end
+end
+
+--- Restore data previously serialized with serialize_data().
+-- @param str String containing the data to restore
+-- @return Value containing the restored data structure
+-- @see serialize_data
+-- @see get_bytecode
+function restore_data(str)
+ return loadstring("return " .. str)()
+end
+
+
--
-- Byte code manipulation routines
--
---- Return the current runtime bytecode of the given function. The byte code
+--- Return the current runtime bytecode of the given data. The byte code
-- will be stripped before it is returned.
--- @param f Function value to return as bytecode
--- @return String value containing the bytecode of the given function
-function get_bytecode(f)
- local d = string.dump(f)
- return d and strip_bytecode(d)
+-- @param val Value to return as bytecode
+-- @return String value containing the bytecode of the given data
+function get_bytecode(val)
+ local code
+
+ if type(val) == "function" then
+ code = string.dump(val)
+ else
+ code = string.dump( loadstring( "return " .. serialize_data(val) ) )
+ end
+
+ return code and strip_bytecode(code)
end
--- Strips unnescessary lua bytecode from given string. Information like line
end
+--
+-- System utility functions
+--
+
+--- Test whether the current system is operating in big endian mode.
+-- @return Boolean value indicating whether system is big endian
+function bigendian()
+ return string.byte(string.dump(function() end), 7) == 0
+end
+
+--- Execute given commandline and gather stdout.
+-- @param command String containing command to execute
+-- @return String containing the command's stdout
+function exec(command)
+ local pp = io.popen(command)
+ local data = pp:read("*a")
+ pp:close()
+
+ return data
+end
+
+--- Execute given commandline and gather stdout.
+-- @param command String containing the command to execute
+-- @return Table containing the command's stdout splitted up in lines
+function execl(command)
+ local pp = io.popen(command)
+ local line = ""
+ local data = {}
+
+ while true do
+ line = pp:read()
+ if (line == nil) then break end
+ table.insert(data, line)
+ end
+ pp:close()
+
+ return data
+end
+
--
-- Coroutine safe xpcall and pcall versions modified for Luci
-- original version:
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