KMacroExpanderBase Class Reference

#include <KMacroExpander>

Inheritance diagram for KMacroExpanderBase:

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

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@.nosp@m.kde..nosp@m.org

Definition at line 31 of file kmacroexpander.h.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

KMacroExpanderBase()

KMacroExpanderBase::KMacroExpanderBase ( QChar c = QLatin1Char('%') )

explicit

Constructor.

Parameters

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

Definition at line 14 of file kmacroexpander.cpp.

~KMacroExpanderBase()

KMacroExpanderBase::~KMacroExpanderBase ( )

virtualdefault

Destructor.

Member Function Documentation

escapeChar()

QChar KMacroExpanderBase::escapeChar

(

)

const

Obtain the macro escape character.

Returns

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

Definition at line 26 of file kmacroexpander.cpp.

expandEscapedMacro()

int KMacroExpanderBase::expandEscapedMacro ( const QString & str, int pos, QStringList & ret )

protectedvirtual

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 KCharMacroExpander, and KWordMacroExpander.

Definition at line 78 of file kmacroexpander.cpp.

expandMacros()

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 31 of file kmacroexpander.cpp.

expandMacrosShellQuote() [1/2]

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 66 of file kmacroexpander.cpp.

expandMacrosShellQuote() [2/2]

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 77 of file kmacroexpander_unix.cpp.

expandPlainMacro()

int KMacroExpanderBase::expandPlainMacro ( const QString & str, int pos, QStringList & ret )

protectedvirtual

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 KCharMacroExpander, and KWordMacroExpander.

Definition at line 72 of file kmacroexpander.cpp.

setEscapeChar()

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 21 of file kmacroexpander.cpp.

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:

• kmacroexpander.h
• kmacroexpander.cpp
• kmacroexpander_unix.cpp
• kmacroexpander_win.cpp