I am looking for the regex which will let me use search replace to add 2 lines of code to all java methods in file using Notepad++
Before:
public void startProcessing() {
..............
..............
}
After:
public void startProcessing() {
logger.info( "Entering into startProcessing" );
..............
..............
logger.info( "Exiting startProcessing" );
}
Is this possible, if yes can anyone help me with the code... or guide me on any other possible way to do this.
To start with the "bad news", you won't be able to insert the "Exiting" line unless you have a much-better fingerprint to match against. With your current code-sample, the best you can match against is } and, as a wild guess, there are probably a lot of closing-curly-brackets throughout your code.
To insert the "Starting" line is do-able, but the robustness depends on your input.
If you will always want to replace the same line as in your sample code (or the same format but different function name), you could do the following in the Find+Replace menu:
Find:
public void startProcessing() {
Replace:
public void startProcessing() {\n\tlogger.info("Entering into startProcessing");
Search Mode: Extended
If you want to dynamically do the replacement with a non-hardcoded function name, you could try the following:
Find:
(public void )([a-zA-Z0-9_$]+)(.*)
Replace:
\1\2\3\n\tlogger.info\("Entering into \2"\);
Search Mode: Regular Expression
This "dynamic" method will require whatever methods you're searching for the be declared in the same format though, public void functionName.... I've used [a-zA-Z0-9_$] as the character-set for the function names, but you can adjust this to suit your needs.
UPDATE (ignore get/set methods)
To ignore get/set methods, such as getFieldValueUnits() or setFieldValueUnits(int val), you can use the following Find value (the Replace is the same-as-above):
(public void )(?!get|set)([a-zA-Z0-9_$]+)(.*)
This will match all functions that do not start with get or set (and are declared as public void, as above).
Related
I've got a Node module file containing about 100 exported methods, which looks something like this:
exports.methodOne = async user_id => {
// other method contents
};
exports.methodTwo = async user_id => {
// other method contents
fooMethod();
};
exports.methodThree = async user_id => {
// other method contents
fooMethod();
};
Goal: What I'd like to do is figure out how to grab the name of any method which contains a call to fooMethod, and return the correct method names: methodTwo and methodThree. I wrote a regex which gets kinda close:
exports\.(\w+).*(\n.*?){1,}fooMethod
Problem: using my example code from above, though, it would effectively match methodOne and methodThree because it finds the first instance of export and then the first instance of fooMethod and goes on from there. Here's a regex101 example.
I suspect I could make use of lookaheads or lookbehinds, but I have little experience with those parts of regex, so any guidance would be much appreciated!
Edit: Turns out regex is poorly-suited for this type of task. #ctcherry advised using a parser, and using that as a springboard, I was able to learn about Abstract Syntax Trees (ASTs) and the recast tool which lets you traverse the tree after using various tools (acorn and others) to parse your code into tree form.
With these tools in hand, I successfully built a script to parse and traverse my node app's files, and was able to find all methods containing fooMethod as intended.
Regex isn't the best tool to tackle all the parts of this problem, ideally we could rely on something higher level, a parser.
One way to do this is to let the javascript parse itself during load and execution. If your node module doesn't include anything that would execute on its own (or at least anything that would conflict with the below), you can put this at the bottom of your module, and then run the module with node mod.js.
console.log(Object.keys(exports).filter(fn => exports[fn].toString().includes("fooMethod(")));
(In the comments below it is revealed that the above isn't possible.)
Another option would be to use a library like https://github.com/acornjs/acorn (there are other options) to write some other javascript that parses your original target javascript, then you would have a tree structure you could use to perform your matching and eventually return the function names you are after. I'm not an expert in that library so unfortunately I don't have sample code for you.
This regex matches (only) the method names that contain a call to fooMethod();
(?<=exports\.)\w+(?=[^{]+\{[^}]+fooMethod\(\)[^}]+};)
See live demo.
Assuming that all methods have their body enclosed within { and }, I would make an approach to get to the final regex like this:
First, find a regex to get the individual methods. This can be done using this regex:
exports\.(\w+)(\s|.)*?\{(\s|.)*?\}
Next, we are interested in those methods that have fooMethod in them before they close. So, look for } or fooMethod.*}, in that order. So, let us name the group searching for fooMethod as FOO and the name of the method calling it as METH. When we iterate the matches, if group FOO is present in a match, we will use the corresponding METH group, else we will reject it.
exports\.(?<METH>\w+)(\s|.)*?\{(\s|.)*?(\}|(?<FOO>fooMethod)(\s|.)*?\})
Explanation:
exports\.(?<METH>\w+): Till the method name (you have already covered this)
(\s|.)*?\{(\s|.)*?: Some code before { and after, non-greedy so that the subsequent group is given preference
(\}|(?<FOO>fooMethod)(\s|.)*?\}): This has 2 parts:
\}: Match the method close delimiter, OR
(?<FOO>fooMethod)(\s|.)*?\}): The call to fooMethod followed by optional code and method close delimiter.
Here's a JavaScript code that demostrates this:
let p = /exports\.(?<METH>\w+)(\s|.)*?\{(\s|.)*?(\}|(?<FOO>fooMethod)(\s|.)*?\})/g
let input = `exports.methodOne = async user_id => {
// other method contents
};
exports.methodTwo = async user_id => {
// other method contents
fooMethod();
};
exports.methodThree = async user_id => {
// other method contents
fooMethod();
};';`
let match = p.exec( input );
while( match !== null) {
if( match.groups.FOO !== undefined ) console.log( match.groups.METH );
match = p.exec( input )
}
I need a custom validator to ban a specific list of banned words from a textarea field.
I need exactly this type of implementation, I know that it's not logically correct to let the user type part of a query but it's exactly what I need.
I tried with a regExp but it has a strange behaviour.
My RegExp
/(drop|update|truncate|delete|;|alter|insert)+./gi
my Validator
export function forbiddenWordsValidator(sqlRe: RegExp): ValidatorFn {
return (control: AbstractControl): { [key: string]: any } | null => {
const forbidden = sqlRe.test(control.value);
return forbidden ? { forbiddenSql: { value: control.value } } : null;
};
}
my formControl:
whereCondition: new FormControl("", [
Validators.required,
forbiddenWordsValidator(this.BAN_SQL_KEYWORDS)...
It works only in certain cases and I don't understand why does the same string works one time and doesn't work if i delete a char and rewrite it or sometimes if i type a whitespace the validator returns ok.
There are several issues here:
The global g modifier leads to unexpected alternated results when used in RegExp#test and similar methods that move the regex index after a valid match, it must be removed
. at the end requires any 1 char other than line break char, hence it must be removed.
Use
/drop|update|truncate|delete|;|alter|insert/i
Or, to match the words as whole words use
/\b(?:drop|update|truncate|delete|alter|insert)\b|;/i
This way, insert in insertion and drop in dropout won't get "caught" (=matched).
See the regex demo.
it's not a great idea to give such power to the user
I'm writing a .sublime-syntax for the Specman language and need help with multiple line method declaration.
A method is declared using the keyword is which comes after most of the other parts of the method declaration.
E.g.
fwd_init() #driver.clock is {
or
add(x : uint, y : uint) is also {
or
private do_stuff(field : my_type) is only {
etc...
My problem is that parts of the declaration can be quite long in case a lot of parameters are passed to the method, so I tend to split the line to multiple lines.
I'm having trouble matching the syntax for the method, as I need multiple line matches.
The following is what I have currently, but it's not working:
methods:
- match: (?=^\s*(?:private|static|final)?\s+[a-zA-Z](?:[a-zA-Z0-9_]+)?\s*\()
set:
- match: (?=\bis\b)
push: method-declaration
Basically I want to return to lookahead, possibly match for the function, in case it's not a function pop it.
As I was writing the question I realized, all I needed to do is push the method-declaration onto the stack and first of all do a negative lookahead for is.
As follows:
methods:
- match: (?=^\s*(?:private|static|final)?\s+[a-zA-Z](?:[a-zA-Z0-9_]+)?\s*\()
push: method-declaration
method-declaration:
- match: (?!is(?:\s+)(only|first|also)?)
pop: true
- ... parsing of the method declaration
Hope this helps anybody else looking for info on the subject.
We manage several ASP.NET MVC client web sites, which all use a data annotation like the following to validate customer email addresses (I haven't included the regex here, for readability):
[Required(ErrorMessage="Email is required")]
[RegularExpression(#"MYREGEX", ErrorMessage = "Email address is not valid")]
public string Email { get; set; }
What I would like to do is to centralise this regular expression, so that if we make a change to it, all of the sites immediately pick it up and we don't have to manually change it in each one.
The problem is that the regex argument of the data annotation must be a constant, so I cannot assign a value I've retrieved from a config file or database at runtime (which was my first thought).
Can anyone help me with a clever solution to this—or failing that, an alternative approach which will work to achieve the same goal? Or does this just require us to write a specialist custom validation attribute which will accept non-constant values?
The easiest way is to write a custom ValidationAttribute that inherits from RegularExpressionAttribute, so something like:
public class EmailAttribute : RegularExpressionAttribute
{
public EmailAttribute()
: base(GetRegex())
{ }
private static string GetRegex()
{
// TODO: Go off and get your RegEx here
return #"^[\w-]+(\.[\w-]+)*#([a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*?\.[a-z]{2,6}|(\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3})(:\d{4})?$";
}
}
That way, you still maintain use of the built in Regex validation but you can customise it. You'd just simply use it like:
[Email(ErrorMessage = "Please use a valid email address")]
Lastly, to get to client side validation to work, you would simply add the following in your Application_Start method within Global.asax, to tell MVC to use the normal regular expression validation for this validator:
DataAnnotationsModelValidatorProvider.RegisterAdapter(typeof(EmailAttribute), typeof(RegularExpressionAttributeAdapter));
Checkout ScotGu's [Email] attribute (Step 4: Creating a Custom [Email] Validation Attribute).
Do you really want to put the regex in database/config file, or do you just want to centralise them? If you just want to put the regex together, you can just define and use constants like
public class ValidationRegularExpressions {
public const string Regex1 = "...";
public const string Regex2 = "...";
}
Maybe you want to manage the regexes in external files, you can write a MSBuild task to do the replacement when you build for production.
If you REALLY want to change the validation regex at runtime, define your own ValidationAttribute, like
[RegexByKey("MyKey", ErrorMessage = "Email address is not valid")]
public string Email { get; set; }
It's just a piece of code to write:
public class RegexByKeyAttribute : ValidationAttribute {
public RegexByKey(string key) {
...
}
// override some methods
public override bool IsValid(object value) {
...
}
}
Or even just:
public class RegexByKeyAttribute : RegularExpressionAttribute {
public RegexByKey(string key) : base(LoadRegex(key)) { }
// Be careful to cache the regex is this operation is expensive.
private static string LoadRegex(string key) { ... }
}
Hope it's helpful: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc668224.aspx
Why not just write you own ValidationAttribute?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.componentmodel.dataannotations.validationattribute.aspx
Then you can configure that thing to pull the regex from a registry setting... config file... database... etc... etc..
How to: Customize Data Field Validation in the Data Model Using Custom
I'm using selenium RC and I would like, for example, to get all the links elements with attribute href that match:
http://[^/]*\d+com
I would like to use:
sel.get_attribute( '//a[regx:match(#href, "http://[^/]*\d+.com")]/#name' )
which would return a list of the name attribute of all the links that match the regex.
(or something like it)
thanks
The answer above is probably the right way to find ALL of the links that match a regex, but I thought it'd also be helpful to answer the other part of the question, how to use regex in Xpath locators. You need to use the regex matches() function, like this:
xpath=//div[matches(#id,'che.*boxes')]
(this, of course, would click the div with 'id=checkboxes', or 'id=cheANYTHINGHEREboxes')
Be aware, though, that the matches function is not supported by all native browser implementations of Xpath (most conspicuously, using this in FF3 will throw an error: invalid xpath[2]).
If you have trouble with your particular browser (as I did with FF3), try using Selenium's allowNativeXpath("false") to switch over to the JavaScript Xpath interpreter. It'll be slower, but it does seem to work with more Xpath functions, including 'matches' and 'ends-with'. :)
You can use the Selenium command getAllLinks to get an array of the ids of links on the page, which you could then loop through and check the href using the getAttribute, which takes the locator followed by an # and the attribute name. For example in Java this might be:
String[] allLinks = session().getAllLinks();
List<String> matchingLinks = new ArrayList<String>();
for (String linkId : allLinks) {
String linkHref = selenium.getAttribute("id=" + linkId + "#href");
if (linkHref.matches("http://[^/]*\\d+.com")) {
matchingLinks.add(link);
}
}
A possible solution is to use sel.get_eval() and write a JS script that returns a list of the links. something like the following answer:
selenium: Is it possible to use the regexp in selenium locators
Here's some alternate methods as well for Selenium RC. These aren't pure Selenium solutions, they allow interaction with your programming language data structures and Selenium.
You can also get get HTML page source, then regular expression the source to return a match set of links. Use regex grouping to separate out URLs, link text/ID, etc. and you can then pass them back to selenium to click on or navigate to.
Another method is get HTML page source or innerHTML (via DOM locators) of a parent/root element then convert the HTML to XML as DOM object in your programming language. You can then traverse the DOM with desired XPath (with regular expression or not), and obtain a nodeset of only the links of interest. From their parse out the link text/ID or URL and you can pass back to selenium to click on or navigate to.
Upon request, I'm providing examples below. It's mixed languages since the post didn't appear to be language specific anyways. I'm just using what I had available to hack together for examples. They aren't fully tested or tested at all, but I've worked with bits of the code before in other projects, so these are proof of concept code examples of how you'd implement the solutions I just mentioned.
//Example of element attribute processing by page source and regex (in PHP)
$pgSrc = $sel->getPageSource();
//simple hyperlink extraction via regex below, replace with better regex pattern as desired
preg_match_all("/<a.+href=\"(.+)\"/",$pgSrc,$matches,PREG_PATTERN_ORDER);
//$matches is a 2D array, $matches[0] is array of whole string matched, $matches[1] is array of what's in parenthesis
//you either get an array of all matched link URL values in parenthesis capture group or an empty array
$links = count($matches) >= 2 ? $matches[1] : array();
//now do as you wish, iterating over all link URLs
//NOTE: these are URLs only, not actual hyperlink elements
//Example of XML DOM parsing with Selenium RC (in Java)
String locator = "id=someElement";
String htmlSrcSubset = sel.getEval("this.browserbot.findElement(\""+locator+"\").innerHTML");
//using JSoup XML parser library for Java, see jsoup.org
Document doc = Jsoup.parse(htmlSrcSubset);
/* once you have this document object, can then manipulate & traverse
it as an XML/HTML node tree. I'm not going to go into details on this
as you'd need to know XML DOM traversal and XPath (not just for finding locators).
But this tutorial URL will give you some ideas:
http://jsoup.org/cookbook/extracting-data/dom-navigation
the example there seems to indicate first getting the element/node defined
by content tag within the "document" or source, then from there get all
hyperlink elements/nodes and then traverse that as a list/array, doing
whatever you want with an object oriented approach for each element in
the array. Each element is an XML node with properties. If you study it,
you'd find this approach gives you the power/access that WebDriver/Selenium 2
now gives you with WebElements but the example here is what you can do in
Selenium RC to get similar WebElement kind of capability
*/
Selenium's By.Id and By.CssSelector methods do not support Regex and By.XPath only does where XPath 2.0 is enabled. If you want to use Regex, you can do something like this:
void MyCallingMethod(IWebDriver driver)
{
//Search by ID:
string attrName = "id";
//Regex = 'a number that is 1-10 digits long'
string attrRegex= "[0-9]{1,10}";
SearchByAttribute(driver, attrName, attrRegex);
}
IEnumerable<IWebElement> SearchByAttribute(IWebDriver driver, string attrName, string attrRegex)
{
List<IWebElement> elements = new List<IWebElement>();
//Allows spaces around equal sign. Ex: id = 55
string searchString = attrName +"\\s*=\\s*\"" + attrRegex +"\"";
//Search page source
MatchCollection matches = Regex.Matches(driver.PageSource, searchString, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
//iterate over matches
foreach (Match match in matches)
{
//Get exact attribute value
Match innerMatch = Regex.Match(match.Value, attrRegex);
cssSelector = "[" + attrName + "=" + attrRegex + "]";
//Find element by exact attribute value
elements.Add(driver.FindElement(By.CssSelector(cssSelector)));
}
return elements;
}
Note: this code is untested. Also, you can optimize this method by figuring out a way to eliminate the second search.