ACF Libraries

ACF Libraries

Because of using lua, a very small language, the need arises to build everything from scratch. This can lead to some confusion, apprehension, or just feeling overwhelmed. Here is documentation on what we have now in the form of libraries and common functions. We hope to build some more and use this information to get the juices flowing in regard to ACF.

Some of these are lua libs or ones written for ACF.

ed.lua (functions) (not working)

These functions are for working with files. Putting them in tables, running a gsub or pattern matching on them... When running require, ed looks for object library which causes it to fail.

fs.lua

Used for various filespecific functions

is_dir (function)

INPUT:
This library function required the following inputs/parameters.

• Path to directory
  • Example: /var/log/snort

OUTPUT:
This library function deliverers the following output/parameters.

• nil or "directory"
  • If inputstring is a existing directory, the output is "directory" (not nil)

CODING EXAMPLE:

-- Include/Call for this library
require("fs")
-- Check if url is a folder
liboutput = fs.is_dir("/var/log/snort")

If directory exist 'liboutput' would contain string:

directory

In directory is missing 'liboutput' would contain nil (nothing).

is_file (function)

INPUT:
This library function required the following inputs/parameters.

• Path to file
  • Example: /var/log/messages

OUTPUT:
This library function deliverers the following output/parameters.

• nil or "file"
  • If inputstring is a existing file, the output is "file" (not nil)

CODING EXAMPLE:

-- Include/Call for this library
require("fs")
-- Check if url is a file
liboutput = fs.is_file("/var/log/messages")

If file exist 'liboutput' would contain string:

file

In file is missing 'liboutput' would contain nil (nothing).

read_file / read_file_as_array (function)

INPUT:
This library function required the following inputs/parameters.

• Path to file
  • Example: /var/log/messages

OUTPUT:
This library function deliverers the following output/parameters.

• Filecontent
  • The filecontent is presented as a string (output comes as a table if 'read_file_as_array' is used)

CODING EXAMPLE:

-- Include/Call for this library
require("fs")
-- Get filecontent
liboutput = fs.read_file("/var/log/messages")

'liboutput' could contain something like:

Nov  6 13:17:01 inspiron /USR/SBIN/CRON[21751]: (root) CMD (   cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov  6 13:43:31 inspiron -- MARK --

CODING EXAMPLE (read_file_as_array):
If 'read_file_as_array' is used, you could do something like this see the output:

for a,b in ipairs(liboutput) do print(a,b) end

The output would look something like:

1 Nov  6 13:17:01 inspiron /USR/SBIN/CRON[21751]: (root) CMD (   cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
2 Nov  6 13:43:31 inspiron -- MARK --

write_file (function)

INPUT:
This library function required the following inputs/parameters.

• Path to file
  • Example: /root/mynotes
• String
  • Content that should be written to file

OUTPUT:
This library function deliverers the following output/parameters.

• Output is written to file
  • The content of the inputstring is written to the file.
  • Data is appended to file (not sure)

CODING EXAMPLE:

-- Include/Call for this library
require("fs")
-- Write to file
fs.write_file("/var/log/messages", "Hello World!")

find (function)

Lets you search for dir entries matching filespec.
Could be compared to 'find / -type d | grep tmp' (not sure)
INPUT:
This library function required the following inputs/parameters.

• SearchString
  • This string is what we are searching for in the dirnames.
• Path
  • This path is where we start searching
  • Search is recursive (not sure)

OUTPUT:
This library function deliverers the following output/parameters.

• SearchResult
  • The SearchResult as a table (array)

CODING EXAMPLE:

-- Include/Call for this library
require("fs")
-- Search for dir
liboutput = fs.find("tmp", "/") 

You could do something like this see the output:

for a,b in ipairs(liboutput) do print(a,b) end

The output would look something like:

1 /usr/tmp
2 /usr/tmp/apk_add

html.lua

Functions used by web_elements.lua. Written by nangel for ACF.

cookie.set

INPUT:
This library required the following inputs/parameters.

• name
• value
• path

OUTPUT:
This library deliverers the following output/parameters.

• String to set the cookie

CODING EXAMPLE:

-- Set variable/Call for this library

html_escape

INPUT:
This library required the following inputs/parameters.

• text-string

OUTPUT:
This library deliverers the following output/parameters.

• String with &,>,< signs encoded

CODING EXAMPLE:

-- Set variable/Call for this library
bobo = require "html"
format = bobo.html_escape("This is > a test < string &")
print(format)

This is > a test < string &

nv_pair

INPUT:
This library required the following inputs/parameters.

• name
• value

OUTPUT:
This library deliverers the following output/parameters.

• name="value"

CODING EXAMPLE:

-- Set variable/Call for this library
bobo = require "html"
format = bobo.nv_pair("foo", "bar")
print(format)
foo="bar"

join.lua (not working)

INPUT:
This library required the following inputs/parameters.

• Delimiter
  • Could be one or more chars.
• Array
  • Data which is to be joined into a string.

OUTPUT:
This library deliverers the following output/parameters.

• String
  • Could be something like "Word, Word, Word, Word"

CODING EXAMPLE:

-- Set variable/Call for this library
ourlib = require("join")
-- Create a array of data (Not sure if the next row is correct)
arraytojoin = "Bird", "Fish", "Cow", "Hammer"
-- Process the data (note the delimiter)
liboutput = ourlib(";", arraytojoin)

'liboutput' would contain:

Bird;Fish;Cow;Hammer

menubuilder.lua

Written by nangel for ACF

session.lua

Written by nangel for ACF.

random_hash

INPUT:
This library required the following inputs/parameters.

• Size- How many characters to give back
  • iterates over multiples of 6; 1-6 1char;7-12 2char;13-18 3 char...

OUTPUT:
This library deliverers the following output/parameters.

• HASH
  • Comes from reading /dev/urandom

CODING EXAMPLE:

-- Set variable/Call for this library
bobo = require "session"
print(bobo.random_hash(100))

will output a hash from /dev/urandom that is 17 char long

hash_ip_address

INPUT:
This library required the following inputs/parameters.

• ip address

OUTPUT:
This library deliverers the following output/parameters.

• HEX incoded ip address

CODING EXAMPLE:

-- Set variable/Call for this library
bobo = require "session"
print(bobo.has_ip_address("192.168.10.1))

Output could be:

c0a80a01

ip_addr_from_hash

INPUT:
This library required the following inputs/parameters.

• HEX encoded ip address

OUTPUT:
This library deliverers the following output/parameters.

• ip address

CODING EXAMPLE:

-- Set variable/Call for this library
bobo = require "session"
print(bobo.ip_addr_from_hash("c0a80a01")

Output could be:

192.168.10.1

serialize

INPUT:
This library required the following inputs/parameters.

• name
  • What to use for the new elements
• value
  • value: table to serialize
• saved
  • not sure what its used of

OUTPUT:
This library deliverers the following output/parameters.

• string with the table serialized

CODING EXAMPLE:

-- Set variable/Call for this library
bobo = require "session"
t = {foo={1,2,3,4}, "one", "two", "bar", "baz"}
stuff = bobo.serialize(1,t)
print(stuff)
1 = {}
1[1] = "one"
1[2] = "two"
1[3] = "bar"
1[4] = "baz"
1["foo"] = {}
1["foo"][1] = 1
1["foo"][2] = 2
1["foo"][3] = 3
1["foo"][4] = 4

save_session

INPUT:
This library required the following inputs/parameters.

• sessionpath,session,sessiontable

OUTPUT:
This library deliverers the following output/parameters.

• true is success, false if error

CODING EXAMPLE:

-- Set variable/Call for this library
bobo = require "session"
print(bobo.save_session("tmp", session, sessiontable)
-- will print true is success
-- false if failed

split.lua

INPUT:
This library required the following inputs/parameters.

• Delimiter
  • Could be one or more chars.
• String or line from a file: bobo~foo~bar~baz~1
  • Data is to be split into a table

OUTPUT:
This library deliverers the following output/parameters.

• Table
  • { 1 = "bobo", 2 = "foo", 3 = "bar", 4 = "baz", 5 = 1}

CODING EXAMPLE:

-- Set variable/Call for this library
strsplit = require("split")
-- Grab the line from a file or input it into the funtcion
line = "bobo~foo~bar~baz~1"
-- Process the data (note the delimiter)
t = ourlib("~", line)
't' would contain: 
{ 1 = "bobo", 2 = "foo", 3 = "bar", 4 = "baz", 5 = 1}
for a,b in ipairs(t) do print(a,b) end
1 bobo
2 foo
3 bar
4 baz
5 1

validator.lua

This contains multiple different functions that each will validate input in there own way.

is_ipv4 (function)

INPUT:
This library function required the following inputs/parameters.

• String in form of ip address
  • Example: 192.168.24.10

OUTPUT:
This library function deliverers the following output/parameters.

• false or "true"

CODING EXAMPLE:

-- Include/Call for this library
require("validator")
-- Check if url is a folder
liboutput = validator.is_ip("192.168.24.10")

If the string is a valid ip 'liboutput' would contain string:

true

If the string is missing or an invalid ip 'liboutput' would contain false.

is_mac (function)

INPUT:
This library function required the following inputs/parameters.

• String in form of mac address
  • Example: 00:ca:ba:de:00:12

OUTPUT:
This library function deliverers the following output/parameters.

• false or "true"

CODING EXAMPLE:

-- Include/Call for this library
require("validator")
-- Check if url is a folder
liboutput = validator.is_mac("00:ca:ba:de:00:12")

If the string is a valid mac address 'liboutput' would contain string:

true

If the string is missing or an invalid ip 'liboutput' would contain false.

is_integer(function)

INPUT:
This library function required the following inputs/parameters.

• Number
  • Example: 100

OUTPUT:
This library function deliverers the following output/parameters.

• false or "true"

CODING EXAMPLE:

-- Include/Call for this library
require("validator")
-- Check if url is a folder
liboutput = validator.is_integer("100")

If the string is a valid ip 'liboutput' would contain string:

true

If the string is missing or an invalid ip 'liboutput' would contain false.

is_integer_in_range (function)

INPUT:
This library function required the following inputs/parameters.

• 3 numbers --- number to test, min, max
  • Example: (10,5,12)

OUTPUT:
This library function deliverers the following output/parameters.

• false or "true"

CODING EXAMPLE:

-- Include/Call for this library
require("validator")
-- Check if url is a folder
liboutput = validator.is_integer_in_range(10,5,15)

If the string is a valid ip 'liboutput' would contain string:

true

If the string is missing or an invalid ip 'liboutput' would contain false.

is_port (function)

INPUT:
This library function required the following inputs/parameters.

• Number - is it between 1 and 65535
  • Example: 45

OUTPUT:
This library function deliverers the following output/parameters.

• false or "true"

CODING EXAMPLE:

-- Include/Call for this library
require("validator")
-- Check if url is a folder
liboutput = validator.is_port("45")

If the string is a valid ip 'liboutput' would contain string:

true

If the string is missing or an invalid ip 'liboutput' would contain false.

web_elements.lua

Written by nangel for ACF.

render_table

INPUT:
This library function required the following inputs/parameters.

• Element
  • The element should be type 'table'
  • Element could be: group, label, html, log, link, form
• Level
  • Level should be a 'number'

OUTPUT:
This library function deliverers the following output/parameters.

• HTML
  • HTML formated output/elements
  • The output is partially generated by html.lua

render_mainmenu

INPUT:
This library function required the following inputs/parameters.

• menu
• prefix
• controller
• action

somefunction (function)

INPUT:
This library function required the following inputs/parameters.

• ?
  • ?

OUTPUT:
This library function deliverers the following output/parameters.

• ?
  • ?

CODING EXAMPLE:

-- Include/Call for this library
require("fs")
-- Check ?
liboutput = fs.somefunction(?)

'liboutput' could contain:

?