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KMacroExpanderBase Class Reference

Abstract base class for the worker classes behind the KMacroExpander namespace and the KCharMacroExpander and KWordMacroExpander classes. More...

#include <KMacroExpanderBase>

Inheritance diagram for KMacroExpanderBase:
KCharMacroExpander KWordMacroExpander

List of all members.

Public Member Functions

QChar escapeChar () const
void expandMacros (QString &str)
bool expandMacrosShellQuote (QString &str)
bool expandMacrosShellQuote (QString &str, int &pos)
 KMacroExpanderBase (QChar c=QLatin1Char('%'))
void setEscapeChar (QChar c)
virtual ~KMacroExpanderBase ()

Protected Member Functions

virtual int expandEscapedMacro (const QString &str, int pos, QStringList &ret)
virtual int expandPlainMacro (const QString &str, int pos, QStringList &ret)

Detailed Description

Abstract base class for the worker classes behind the KMacroExpander namespace and the KCharMacroExpander and KWordMacroExpander classes.

Author:
Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>

Definition at line 41 of file kmacroexpander.h.


Constructor & Destructor Documentation

KMacroExpanderBase::KMacroExpanderBase ( QChar  c = QLatin1Char('%')  )  [explicit]

Constructor.

Parameters:
c escape char indicating start of macros, or QChar::null for none

Definition at line 29 of file kmacroexpander.cpp.

KMacroExpanderBase::~KMacroExpanderBase (  )  [virtual]

Destructor.

Definition at line 33 of file kmacroexpander.cpp.


Member Function Documentation

QChar KMacroExpanderBase::escapeChar (  )  const

Obtain the macro escape character.

Returns:
escape char indicating start of macros, or QChar::null if none

Definition at line 45 of file kmacroexpander.cpp.

int KMacroExpanderBase::expandEscapedMacro ( const QString &  str,
int  pos,
QStringList &  ret 
) [protected, virtual]

This function is called every time the escape char is found if it is not QChar::null.

It should determine whether the string starting at pos witin str is a valid macro and return the substitution value for it if so.

Parameters:
str the input string
pos the offset within str. Note that this is the position of the occurrence of the escape char
ret return value: the string to substitute for the macro
Returns:
If greater than zero, the number of chars at pos in str to substitute with ret (i.e., a valid macro was found). If less than zero, subtract this value from pos (to skip a macro, i.e., substitute it with itself). If zero, scanning continues as if no escape char was encountered at all.

Reimplemented in KWordMacroExpander, and KCharMacroExpander.

Definition at line 91 of file kmacroexpander.cpp.

void KMacroExpanderBase::expandMacros ( QString &  str  ) 

Perform safe macro expansion (substitution) on a string.

Parameters:
str the string in which macros are expanded in-place

Definition at line 50 of file kmacroexpander.cpp.

bool KMacroExpanderBase::expandMacrosShellQuote ( QString &  str  ) 

Same as above, but always starts at position 0, and unmatched closing parens and braces are treated as errors.

Definition at line 82 of file kmacroexpander.cpp.

bool KMacroExpanderBase::expandMacrosShellQuote ( QString &  str,
int &  pos 
)

Perform safe macro expansion (substitution) on a string for use in shell commands.

*NIX notes

Explicitly supported shell constructs: \ '' "" $'' $"" {} () $(()) ${} $() ``

Implicitly supported shell constructs: (())

Unsupported shell constructs that will cause problems: Shortened "case $v in pat)" syntax. Use "case $v in (pat)" instead.

The rest of the shell (incl. bash) syntax is simply ignored, as it is not expected to cause problems.

Note that bash contains a bug which makes macro expansion within double quoted substitutions ("${VAR:-%macro}") inherently insecure.

For security reasons, never put expandos in command line arguments that are shell commands by themselves - "sh -c 'foo %f'" is taboo. "file=%f sh -c 'foo "$file"'" is OK.

Windows notes

All quoting syntax supported by KShell is supported here as well. Additionally, command grouping via parentheses is recognized - note however, that the parser is much stricter about unquoted parentheses than cmd itself. The rest of the cmd syntax is simply ignored, as it is not expected to cause problems - do not use commands that embed other commands, though - "for /f ..." is taboo.

Parameters:
str the string in which macros are expanded in-place
pos the position inside the string at which parsing/substitution should start, and upon exit where processing stopped
Returns:
false if the string could not be parsed and therefore no safe substitution was possible. Note that macros will have been processed up to the point where the error occurred. An unmatched closing paren or brace outside any shell construct is not an error (unlike in the function below), but still prematurely terminates processing.

Definition at line 48 of file kmacroexpander_unix.cpp.

int KMacroExpanderBase::expandPlainMacro ( const QString &  str,
int  pos,
QStringList &  ret 
) [protected, virtual]

This function is called for every single char within the string if the escape char is QChar::null.

It should determine whether the string starting at pos within str is a valid macro and return the substitution value for it if so.

Parameters:
str the input string
pos the offset within str
ret return value: the string to substitute for the macro
Returns:
If greater than zero, the number of chars at pos in str to substitute with ret (i.e., a valid macro was found). If less than zero, subtract this value from pos (to skip a macro, i.e., substitute it with itself). If zero, no macro starts at pos.

Reimplemented in KWordMacroExpander, and KCharMacroExpander.

Definition at line 88 of file kmacroexpander.cpp.

void KMacroExpanderBase::setEscapeChar ( QChar  c  ) 

Set the macro escape character.

Parameters:
c escape char indicating start of macros, or QChar::null if none

Definition at line 39 of file kmacroexpander.cpp.


The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:
  • kmacroexpander.h
  • kmacroexpander.cpp
  • kmacroexpander_unix.cpp
  • kmacroexpander_win.cpp

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