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+* [Full documentation](https://taskcluster.github.io/json-e)
+
+# JSON-e
+
+JSON-e is a data-structure parameterization system for embedding context in
+JSON objects.
+
+The central idea is to treat a data structure as a "template" and transform it,
+using another data structure as context, to produce an output data structure.
+
+There are countless libraries to do this with strings, such as
+[mustache](https://mustache.github.io/). What makes JSON-e unique is that it
+operates on data structures, not on their textual representation. This allows
+input to be written in a number of formats (JSON, YAML, etc.) or even generated
+dynamically. It also means that the output cannot be "invalid", even when
+including large chunks of contextual data.
+
+JSON-e is also designed to be safe for use on untrusted data. It never uses
+`eval` or any other function that might result in arbitrary code execution. It
+also disallows unbounded iteration, so any JSON-e rendering operation will
+finish in finite time.
+
+## Changes
+
+See
+[CHANGELOG.rst](https://github.com/taskcluster/json-e/blob/master/CHANGELOG.rst)
+for the changes in each version of this library.
+
+# Interface
+
+## JavaScript
+
+The JS module is installed with either of
+
+```shell
+npm install --save json-e
+yarn add json-e
+```
+
+The module exposes following interface:
+
+```javascript
+import jsone from 'json-e';
+
+var template = {a: {$eval: "foo.bar"}};
+var context = {foo: {bar: "zoo"}};
+console.log(jsone(template, context));
+// -> { a: 'zoo' }
+```
+
+Note that the context can contain functions, and those functions can be called
+from the template:
+
+```javascript
+var template = {$eval: "foo(1)"};
+var context = {"foo": function(x) { return x + 2; }};
+console.log(jsone(template, context)); // -> 3
+```
+
+*NOTE*: Context functions are called synchronously. Any complex asynchronous
+operations should be handled before rendering the template.
+
+*NOTE*: If the template is untrusted, it can pass arbitrary data to functions
+in the context, which must guard against such behavior.
+
+### Browser
+
+JSON-e is distributed as a CommonJS package is not designed to be included
+directly in a browser with `<script>`. Instead, it must be incorproated using a
+tool that understands CommonJS such as Webpack. See
+[Neutrino](https://neutrino.js.org/) for an easy, configuration-free way to
+build such applications.
+
+## Python
+
+The Python distribution exposes a `render` function:
+
+```python
+import jsone
+
+template = {"a": {"$eval": "foo.bar"}}
+context = {"foo": {"bar": "zoo"}}
+print(jsone.render(template, context)) # -> {"a": "zoo"}
+```
+
+and also allows custom functions in the context:
+
+```python
+template = {"$eval": "foo(1)"}
+context = {"foo": lambda x: x + 2}
+print(jsone.render(template, context)) # -> 3
+```
+
+## Go (golang)
+
+The [golang package for json-e](https://godoc.org/github.com/taskcluster/json-e) exposes a `Render` function:
+
+```golang
+import (
+ "fmt"
+ "github.com/taskcluster/json-e"
+)
+
+// Template must be given using types:
+// map[string]interface{}, []interface{}, float64, string, bool, nil
+// The same types that json.Unmarshal() will create when targeting an interface{}
+template := map[string]interface{}{
+ "result": map[string]interface{}{
+ "$eval": "f() + 5",
+ },
+}
+// Context can be JSON types just like template, but may also contain functions
+// these can JSON types as arguments, and return a value and optionally an error.
+context := map[string]interface{}{
+ "f": func() int { return 37 },
+}
+
+func main() {
+ value, err := jsone.Render(template, context)
+ fmt.Printf("%#v\n", value)
+}
+```
+
+## CLI
+
+You can use the 3rd party package [rjsone](https://wryun.github.io/rjsone/) to template
+JSON-e from the command line, passing templates/contexts as files or arguments and using
+stdout for the result.
+
+
+# Language Reference
+
+The examples here are given in YAML for ease of reading. Of course, the
+rendering operation takes place on the parsed data, so the input format is
+irrelevant to its operation.
+
+## Simple Operations
+
+All JSON-e directives involve the `$` character, so a template without any directives is
+rendered unchanged:
+
+```yaml
+template: {key: [1,2,{key2: 'val', key3: 1}, true], f: false}
+context: {}
+result: {key: [1,2,{key2: 'val', key3: 1}, true], f: false}
+```
+
+## String Interpolation
+
+The simplest form of substitution occurs within strings, using `${..}`:
+
+```yaml
+template: {message: 'hello ${key}', 'k=${num}': true}
+context: {key: 'world', num: 1}
+result: {message: 'hello world', 'k=1': true}
+```
+
+The bit inside the `${..}` is an expression, and must evaluate to something
+that interpolates obviously into a string (so, a string, number, boolean,).
+If it is null, then the expression interpolates into an empty string.
+The expression syntax is described in more detail below.
+
+Values interpolate as their JSON literal values:
+
+```yaml
+template: ["number: ${num}", "booleans: ${t} ${f}", "null: ${nil}"]
+context: {num: 3, t: true, f: false, nil: null}
+result: ["number: 3", "booleans: true false", "null: "]
+```
+
+Note that object keys can be interpolated, too:
+
+```yaml
+template: {"tc_${name}": "${value}"}
+context: {name: 'foo', value: 'bar'}
+result: {"tc_foo": "bar"}
+```
+
+The string `${` can be escaped as `$${`.
+
+## Operators
+
+JSON-e defines a bunch of operators. Each is represented as an object with a
+property beginning with `$`. This object can be buried deeply within the
+template. Some operators take additional arguments as properties of the same
+object.
+
+### `$eval`
+
+The `$eval` operator evaluates the given expression and is replaced with the
+result of that evaluation. Unlike with string interpolation, the result need
+not be a string, but can be an arbitrary data structure.
+
+```yaml
+template: {config: {$eval: 'settings.staging'}}
+context:
+ settings:
+ staging:
+ transactionBackend: mock
+ production:
+ transactionBackend: customerdb
+result: {config: {transactionBackend: 'mock'}}
+```
+
+The expression syntax is described in more detail below.
+
+Note that `$eval`'s value must be a string. "Metaprogramming" by providing a
+calculated value to eval is not allowed. For example, `{$eval: {$eval:
+"${var1} + ${var2}"}}` is not valid JSON-e.
+
+### `$json`
+
+The `$json` operator formats the given value as JSON with sorted keys. It does
+not evaluate the value (use `$eval` for that). While this can be useful in some
+cases, it is an unusual case to include a JSON string in a larger data
+structure.
+
+```yaml
+template: {$json: [a, b, {$eval: 'a+b'}, 4]}
+context: {a: 1, b: 2}
+result: '["a", "b", 3, 4]'
+```
+
+### `$if` - `then` - `else`
+
+The `$if` operator supports conditionals. It evaluates the given value, and
+replaces itself with the `then` or `else` properties. If either property is
+omitted, then the expression is omitted from the parent object.
+
+```yaml
+template: {key: {$if: 'cond', then: 1}, k2: 3}
+context: {cond: true}
+result: {key: 1, k2: 3}
+```
+
+```yaml
+template: {$if: 'x > 5', then: 1, else: -1}
+context: {x: 10}
+result: 1
+```
+
+```yaml
+template: [1, {$if: 'cond', else: 2}, 3]
+context: {cond: false}
+result: [1,2,3]
+```
+
+```yaml
+template: {key: {$if: 'cond', then: 2}, other: 3}
+context: {cond: false}
+result: {other: 3}
+```
+
+### `$flatten`
+
+The `$flatten` operator flattens an array of arrays into one array.
+
+```yaml
+template: {$flatten: [[1, 2], [3, 4], [5]]}
+context: {}
+result: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
+```
+
+### `$flattenDeep`
+
+The `$flattenDeep` operator deeply flattens an array of arrays into one array.
+
+```yaml
+template: {$flattenDeep: [[1, [2, [3]]]]}
+context: {}
+result: [1, 2, 3]
+```
+
+### `$fromNow`
+
+The `$fromNow` operator is a shorthand for the built-in function `fromNow`. It
+creates a JSON (ISO 8601) datestamp for a time relative to the current time
+(see the `now` builtin, below) or, if `from` is given, relative to that time.
+The offset is specified by a sequence of number/unit pairs in a string. For
+example:
+
+```yaml
+template: {$fromNow: '2 days 1 hour'}
+context: {}
+result: '2017-01-19T16:27:20.974Z'
+```
+
+```yaml
+template: {$fromNow: '1 hour', from: '2017-01-19T16:27:20.974Z'}
+context: {}
+result: '2017-01-19T17:27:20.974Z'
+```
+
+The available units are `day`, `hour`, and `minute`, for all of which a plural
+is also accepted.
+
+### `$let`
+
+The `$let` operator evaluates an expression using a context amended with the
+given values. It is analogous to the Haskell `where` clause.
+
+```yaml
+template: {$let: {ts: 100, foo: 200},
+ in: [{$eval: "ts+foo"}, {$eval: "ts-foo"}, {$eval: "ts*foo"}]}
+context: {}
+result: [300, -100, 20000]
+```
+
+The `$let` operator here added the `ts` and `foo` variables to the scope of
+the context and accordingly evaluated the `in` clause using those variables
+to return the correct result.
+
+The variable names in the `$let` value must be valid context variable names and
+must be written literally. That is, an expression like `{$let: {$eval:
+"extraVariables"}, in : ..}` is not allowed.
+
+### `$map`
+
+The `$map` operator evaluates an expression for each value of the given array or object,
+constructing the result as an array or object of the evaluated values.
+
+When given an array, map always returns an array.
+
+```yaml
+template:
+ $map: [2, 4, 6]
+ each(x): {$eval: 'x + a'}
+context: {a: 1}
+result: [3, 5, 7]
+```
+The array or object is the value of the `$map` property, and the expression to evaluate
+is given by `each(var)` where `var` is the name of the variable containing each
+element. In the case of iterating over an object, `var` will be an object with two keys:
+`key` and `val`. These keys correspond to a key in the object and its corresponding value.
+
+When $map is given an object, the expression defined by `each(var)` must evaluate to an
+object for each key/value pair (`key` and `val`).The objects constructed by each 'each(var)'
+can then be merged internally to give the resulting object with later keys overwriting
+the previous ones.Otherwise the expression becomes invalid for the $map operator
+
+```yaml
+template:
+ $map: {a: 1, b: 2, c: 3}
+ each(y): {'${y.key}x': {$eval: 'y.val + 1'}}
+context: {}
+result: {ax: 2, bx: 3, cx: 4}
+```
+
+### `$match`
+
+The `$match` operator is not dissimilar to pattern matching operators. It gets an object, in which every key is a string expression(s) to evaluate to `true` or `false` based on the context. The result will be an array of things (all types are supported) that were values corresponding to the keys that were evaluated to `true`. The order of the things in the array will be arbitrary. If there are no matches, the result is an empty array.
+
+```yaml
+template: {$match: {"x == 10": "ten", "x == 20": "twenty"}}
+context: {x: 10}
+result: ["ten"]
+```
+
+```yaml
+template: {$match: {"x == 10 || x == 20": "tens", "x == 10": "ten"}}
+context: {x: 10}
+one possible result: ["tens", "ten"]
+another possible result: ["ten", "tens"]
+```
+```yaml
+template: {$match: {"x < 10": "tens"}}
+context: {x: 10}
+result: []
+```
+
+### `$merge`
+
+The `$merge` operator merges an array of objects, returning a single object
+that combines all of the objects in the array, where the right-side objects
+overwrite the values of the left-side ones.
+
+```yaml
+template: {$merge: [{a: 1, b: 1}, {b: 2, c: 3}, {d: 4}]}
+context: {}
+result: {a: 1, b: 2, c: 3, d: 4}
+```
+
+### `$mergeDeep`
+
+The `$mergeDeep` operator is like `$merge`, but it recurses into objects to
+combine their contents property by property. Arrays are concatenated.
+
+```yaml
+template:
+ $mergeDeep:
+ - task:
+ payload:
+ command: [a, b]
+ - task:
+ extra:
+ foo: bar
+ - task:
+ payload:
+ command: [c]
+context: {}
+result:
+ task:
+ extra:
+ foo: bar
+ payload:
+ command: [a, b, c]
+```
+
+### `$sort`
+
+The `$sort` operator sorts the given array. It takes a `by(var)` property which
+should evaluate to a comparable value for each element. The `by(var)` property
+defaults to the identity function.
+
+```yaml
+template:
+ $sort: [{a: 2}, {a: 1, b: []}, {a: 3}]
+ by(x): 'x.a'
+context: {}
+result: [{a: 1, b: []}, {a: 2}, {a: 3}]
+```
+
+### `$reverse`
+
+The `$reverse` operator simply reverses the given array.
+
+```yaml
+template: {$reverse: [3, 4, 1, 2]}
+context: {}
+result: [2, 1, 4, 3]
+```
+
+### Escaping operators
+
+All property names starting with `$` are reserved for JSON-e.
+You can use `$$` to escape such properties:
+
+```yaml
+template: {$$reverse: [3, 2, {$$eval: '2 - 1'}, 0]}
+context: {}
+result: {$reverse: [3, 2, {$eval: '2 - 1'}, 0]}
+```
+
+## Truthiness
+
+Many values can be evaluated in context where booleans are required,
+not just booleans themselves. JSON-e defines the following values as false.
+Anything else will be true.
+
+```yaml
+template: {$if: 'a || b || c || d || e || f', then: "uh oh", else: "falsy" }
+context: {a: null, b: [], c: {}, d: "", e: 0, f: false}
+result: "falsy"
+```
+
+## Expression Syntax
+
+Expression are given in a simple Python- or JavaScript-like expression
+language. Its data types are limited to JSON types plus function objects.
+
+### Literals
+
+Literals are similar to those for JSON. Numeric literals only accept integer
+and decimal notation. Strings do not support any kind of escaping. The use of
+`\n` and `\t` in the example below depends on the YAML parser to expand the
+escapes.
+
+```yaml
+template:
+ - {$eval: "1.3"}
+ - {$eval: "'abc'"}
+ - {$eval: '"abc"'}
+ - {$eval: "'\n\t'"}
+context: {}
+result:
+ - 1.3
+ - "abc"
+ - "abc"
+ - "\n\t"
+```
+
+Array and object literals also look much like JSON, with bare identifiers
+allowed as keys like in Javascript:
+
+```yaml
+template:
+ - {$eval: '[1, 2, "three"]'}
+ - {$eval: '{foo: 1, "bar": 2}'}
+context: {}
+result:
+ - [1, 2, "three"]
+ - {"foo": 1, "bar": 2}
+```
+
+### Context References
+
+Bare identifiers refer to items from the context or to built-ins (described below).
+
+```yaml
+template: {$eval: '[x, z, x+z]'}
+context: {x: 'quick', z: 'sort'}
+reslut: ['quick', 'sort', 'quicksort']
+```
+
+### Arithmetic Operations
+
+The usual arithmetic operators are all defined, with typical associativity and
+precedence:
+
+```yaml
+template:
+ - {$eval: 'x + z'}
+ - {$eval: 's + t'}
+ - {$eval: 'z - x'}
+ - {$eval: 'x * z'}
+ - {$eval: 'z / x'}
+ - {$eval: 'z ** 2'}
+ - {$eval: '(z / x) ** 2'}
+context: {x: 10, z: 20, s: "face", t: "plant"}
+result:
+ - 30
+ - "faceplant"
+ - 10
+ - 200
+ - 2
+ - 400
+ - 4
+```
+
+Note that strings can be concatenated with `+`, but none of the other operators
+apply.
+
+### Comparison Operations
+
+Comparisons work as expected. Equality is "deep" in the sense of doing
+comparisons of the contents of data structures.
+
+```yaml
+template:
+ - {$eval: 'x < z'}
+ - {$eval: 'x <= z'}
+ - {$eval: 'x > z'}
+ - {$eval: 'x >= z'}
+ - {$eval: 'deep == [1, [3, {a: 5}]]'}
+ - {$eval: 'deep != [1, [3, {a: 5}]]'}
+context: {x: -10, z: 10, deep: [1, [3, {a: 5}]]}
+result: [true, true, false, false, true, false]
+```
+
+### Boolean Operations
+
+Boolean operations use C- and Javascript-style symbls `||`, `&&`, and `!`:
+
+```yaml
+template: {$eval: '!(false || false) && true'}
+context: {}
+result: true
+```
+
+### Object Property Access
+
+Like Javascript, object properties can be accessed either with array-index
+syntax or with dot syntax. Unlike Javascript, `obj.prop` is an error if `obj`
+does not have `prop`, while `obj['prop']` will evaulate to `null`.
+
+```yaml
+template: {$eval: 'v.a + v["b"]'}
+context: {v: {a: 'apple', b: 'bananna', c: 'carrot'}}
+result: 'applebananna'
+````
+
+### Indexing and Slicing
+
+Strings and arrays can be indexed and sliced using a Python-like indexing
+scheme. Negative indexes are counted from the end of the value. Slices are
+treated as "half-open", meaning that the result contains the first index and
+does not contain the second index. A "backward" slice with the start index
+greater than the end index is treated as empty.
+
+```yaml
+template:
+ - {$eval: '[array[1], string[1]]'}
+ - {$eval: '[array[1:4], string[1:4]]'}
+ - {$eval: '[array[2:], string[2:]]'}
+ - {$eval: '[array[:2], string[:2]]'}
+ - {$eval: '[array[4:2], string[4:2]]'}
+ - {$eval: '[array[-2], string[-2]]'}
+ - {$eval: '[array[-2:], string[-2:]]'}
+ - {$eval: '[array[:-3], string[:-3]]'}
+context: {array: ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e'], string: 'abcde'}
+result:
+ - ['b', 'b']
+ - [['b', 'c', 'd'], 'bcd']
+ - [['c', 'd', 'e'], 'cde']
+ - [['a', 'b'], 'ab']
+ - [[], '']
+ - ['d', 'd']
+ - [['d', 'e'], 'de']
+ - [['a', 'b'], 'ab']
+```
+
+### Containment Operation
+
+The `in` keyword can be used to check for containment: a property in an object,
+an element in an array, or a substring in a string.
+
+```yaml
+template:
+ - {$eval: '"foo" in {foo: 1, bar: 2}'}
+ - {$eval: '"foo" in ["foo", "bar"]'}
+ - {$eval: '"foo" in "foobar"'}
+context: {}
+result: [true, true, true]
+```
+
+### Function Invocation
+
+Function calls are made with the usual `fn(arg1, arg2)` syntax. Functions are
+not JSON data, so they cannot be created in JSON-e, but they can be provided as
+built-ins or supplied in the context and called from JSON-e.
+
+### Built-In Functions and Variables
+
+The expression language provides a laundry-list of built-in functions/variables. Library
+users can easily add additional functions/variables, or override the built-ins, as part
+of the context.
+
+#### Time
+
+The built-in context value `now` is set to the current time at the start of
+evaluation of the template, and used as the default "from" value for `$fromNow`
+and the built-in `fromNow()`.
+
+```yaml
+template:
+ - {$eval: 'now'}
+ - {$eval: 'fromNow("1 minute")'}
+ - {$eval: 'fromNow("1 minute", "2017-01-19T16:27:20.974Z")'}
+context: {}
+result:
+ - '2017-01-19T16:27:20.974Z',
+ - '2017-01-19T16:28:20.974Z',
+ - '2017-01-19T16:28:20.974Z',
+```
+
+#### Math
+
+```yaml
+template:
+ # the smallest of the arguments
+ - {$eval: 'min(1, 3, 5)'}
+ # the largest of the arguments
+ - {$eval: 'max(2, 4, 6)'}
+ # mathematical functions
+ - {$eval: 'sqrt(16)'}
+ - {$eval: 'ceil(0.3)'}
+ - {$eval: 'floor(0.3)'}
+ - {$eval: 'abs(-0.3)'}
+context: {}
+result:
+ - 1
+ - 6
+ - 4
+ - 1
+ - 0
+ - 0.3
+```
+
+#### Strings
+
+```yaml
+template:
+ # convert string case
+ - {$eval: 'lowercase("Fools!")'}
+ - {$eval: 'uppercase("Fools!")'}
+ # convert string, number, boolean, or array to string
+ - {$eval: 'str(130)'}
+ # strip whitespace from left, right, or both ends of a string
+ - {$eval: 'lstrip(" room ")'}
+ - {$eval: 'rstrip(" room ")'}
+ - {$eval: 'strip(" room ")'}
+context: {}
+result:
+ - "fools!"
+ - "FOOLS!"
+ - "130"
+ - "room "
+ - " room"
+ - room
+```
+
+#### Type
+
+The `typeof()` built-in returns the type of an object. Its behavior around
+`null` is reminiscent of JavaScript.
+
+```yaml
+template:
+ - "${typeof('abc')}"
+ - "${typeof(42)}"
+ - "${typeof(42.0)}"
+ - "${typeof(true)}"
+ - "${typeof([])}"
+ - "${typeof({})}"
+ - "${typeof(typeof)}"
+ - {$eval: "typeof(null)"}
+ - "${typeof(null)}"
+context: {}
+result:
+ - string
+ - number
+ - number
+ - boolean
+ - array
+ - object
+ - function
+ - null # note: the value null, not the string "null"
+ - '' # .. which interpolates to an empty string
+```
+
+#### Length
+
+The `len()` built-in returns the length of a string or array.
+
+```yaml
+template: {$eval: 'len([1, 2, 3])'}
+context: {}
+result: 3
+```
+