koreader/frontend/util.lua

--[[--
This module contains miscellaneous helper functions for the KOReader frontend.
]]

local BaseUtil = require("ffi/util")
local dbg = require("dbg")
local _ = require("gettext")
local T = BaseUtil.template

local util = {}

--- Strips all punctuation and spaces from a string.
---- @string text the string to be stripped
---- @treturn string stripped text
function util.stripePunctuations(text)
    if not text then return end
    -- strip ASCII punctuation characters around text
    -- and strip any generic punctuation (U+2000 - U+206F) in the text
    return text:gsub("\226[\128-\131][\128-\191]", ''):gsub("^%p+", ''):gsub("%p+$", '')
end

--[[--
Splits a string by a pattern

Lua doesn't have a string.split() function and most of the time
you don't really need it because string.gmatch() is enough.
However string.gmatch() has one significant disadvantage for me:
You can't split a string while matching both the delimited
strings and the delimiters themselves without tracking positions
and substrings. The gsplit function below takes care of
this problem.

Author: Peter Odding

License: MIT/X11

Source: <a href="http://snippets.luacode.org/snippets/String_splitting_130">http://snippets.luacode.org/snippets/String_splitting_130</a>
]]
----@string str string to split
----@param pattern the pattern to split against
----@bool capture
----@bool capture_empty_entity
function util.gsplit(str, pattern, capture, capture_empty_entity)
    pattern = pattern and tostring(pattern) or '%s+'
    if (''):find(pattern) then
        error('pattern matches empty string!', 2)
    end
    return coroutine.wrap(function()
        local index = 1
        repeat
            local first, last = str:find(pattern, index)
            if first and last then
                if index < first or (index == first and capture_empty_entity) then
                    coroutine.yield(str:sub(index, first - 1))
                end
                if capture then
                    coroutine.yield(str:sub(first, last))
                end
                index = last + 1
            else
                if index <= #str then
                    coroutine.yield(str:sub(index))
                end
                break
            end
        until index > #str
    end)
end

--[[--
Converts seconds to a clock string.

Source: <a href="https://gist.github.com/jesseadams/791673">https://gist.github.com/jesseadams/791673</a>
]]
---- @int seconds number of seconds
---- @bool withoutSeconds if true 00:00, if false 00:00:00
---- @treturn string clock string in the form of 00:00 or 00:00:00
function util.secondsToClock(seconds, withoutSeconds)
    seconds = tonumber(seconds)
    if seconds == 0 or seconds ~= seconds then
        if withoutSeconds then
            return "00:00"
        else
            return "00:00:00"
        end
    else
        local round = withoutSeconds and require("optmath").round or math.floor
        local hours = string.format("%02.f", math.floor(seconds / 3600))
        local mins = string.format("%02.f", round(seconds / 60 - (hours * 60)))
        if mins == "60" then
            mins = string.format("%02.f", 0)
            hours = string.format("%02.f", hours + 1)
        end
        if withoutSeconds then
            return hours .. ":" .. mins
        end
        local secs = string.format("%02.f", math.floor(seconds - hours * 3600 - mins * 60))
        return hours .. ":" .. mins .. ":" .. secs
    end
end

--[[--
Compares values in two different tables.

Source: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/32660766/2470572">https://stackoverflow.com/a/32660766/2470572</a>
]]
---- @param o1 Lua table
---- @param o2 Lua table
---- @bool ignore_mt
---- @treturn boolean
function util.tableEquals(o1, o2, ignore_mt)
    if o1 == o2 then return true end
    local o1Type = type(o1)
    local o2Type = type(o2)
    if o1Type ~= o2Type then return false end
    if o1Type ~= 'table' then return false end

    if not ignore_mt then
        local mt1 = getmetatable(o1)
        if mt1 and mt1.__eq then
            --compare using built in method
            return o1 == o2
        end
    end

    local keySet = {}

    for key1, value1 in pairs(o1) do
        local value2 = o2[key1]
        if value2 == nil or util.tableEquals(value1, value2, ignore_mt) == false then
            return false
        end
        keySet[key1] = true
    end

    for key2, _ in pairs(o2) do
        if not keySet[key2] then return false end
    end
    return true
end

--[[--
Makes a deep copy of a table.

Source: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/16077650/2470572">https://stackoverflow.com/a/16077650/2470572</a>
]]
---- @param o Lua table
---- @treturn Lua table
function util.tableDeepCopy(o, seen)
  seen = seen or {}
  if o == nil then return nil end
  if seen[o] then return seen[o] end

  local no
  if type(o) == "table" then
    no = {}
    seen[o] = no

    for k, v in next, o, nil do
      no[util.tableDeepCopy(k, seen)] = util.tableDeepCopy(v, seen)
    end
    setmetatable(no, util.tableDeepCopy(getmetatable(o), seen))
  else -- number, string, boolean, etc
    no = o
  end
  return no
end

--- Returns number of keys in a table.
---- @param t Lua table
---- @treturn int number of keys in table t
function util.tableSize(t)
    local count = 0
    for _ in pairs(t) do count = count + 1 end
    return count
end

--- Append all elements from t2 into t1.
---- @param t1 Lua table
---- @param t2 Lua table
function util.arrayAppend(t1, t2)
    for _, v in ipairs(t2) do
        table.insert(t1, v)
    end
end

--[[--
Gets last index of string in character

Returns the index within this string of the last occurrence of the specified character
or -1 if the character does not occur.

To find . you need to escape it.
]]
---- @string string
---- @string ch
---- @treturn int last occurrence or -1 if not found
function util.lastIndexOf(string, ch)
    local i = string:match(".*" .. ch .. "()")
    if i == nil then return -1 else return i - 1 end
end

--- Reverse the individual greater-than-single-byte characters
-- @string string to reverse
-- Taken from https://github.com/blitmap/lua-utf8-simple#utf8reverses
function util.utf8Reverse(text)
    text = text:gsub('[%z\1-\127\194-\244][\128-\191]*', function (c) return #c > 1 and c:reverse() end)
    return text:reverse()
end

--- Splits string into a list of UTF-8 characters.
---- @string text the string to be split.
---- @treturn table list of UTF-8 chars
function util.splitToChars(text)
    local tab = {}
    if text ~= nil then
        local prevcharcode, charcode = 0
        -- Supports WTF-8 : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#WTF-8
        -- a superset of UTF-8, that includes UTF-16 surrogates
        -- in UTF-8 bytes (forbidden in well-formed UTF-8).
        -- We may get that from bad producers or converters.
        -- (luajson, used to decode Wikipedia API json, will not correctly decode
        -- this sample: <span lang=\"got\">\ud800\udf45</span> : single Unicode
        -- char https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+10345 and will give us
        -- "\xed\xa0\x80\xed\xbd\x85" as UTF8, instead of the correct "\xf0\x90\x8d\x85")
        -- From http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#utf16-1
        --   Surrogates are code points from two special ranges of
        --   Unicode values, reserved for use as the leading, and
        --   trailing values of paired code units in UTF-16. Leading,
        --   also called high, surrogates are from D800 to DBFF, and
        --   trailing, or low, surrogates are from DC00 to DFFF. They
        --   are called surrogates, since they do not represent
        --   characters directly, but only as a pair.
        local hi_surrogate
        local hi_surrogate_uchar
        for uchar in string.gmatch(text, "([%z\1-\127\194-\244][\128-\191]*)") do
            charcode = BaseUtil.utf8charcode(uchar)
            -- (not sure why we need this prevcharcode check; we could get
            -- charcode=nil with invalid UTF-8, but should we then really
            -- ignore the following charcode ?)
            if prevcharcode then -- utf8
                if charcode and charcode >= 0xD800 and charcode <= 0xDBFF then
                    if hi_surrogate then -- previous unconsumed one, add it even if invalid
                        table.insert(tab, hi_surrogate_uchar)
                    end
                    hi_surrogate = charcode
                    hi_surrogate_uchar = uchar -- will be added if not followed by low surrogate
                elseif hi_surrogate and charcode and charcode >= 0xDC00 and charcode <= 0xDFFF then
                    -- low surrogate following a high surrogate, good, let's make them a single char
                    charcode = (hi_surrogate - 0xD800) * 0x400 + (charcode - 0xDC00) + 0x10000
                    table.insert(tab, util.unicodeCodepointToUtf8(charcode))
                    hi_surrogate = nil
                else
                    if hi_surrogate then -- previous unconsumed one, add it even if invalid
                        table.insert(tab, hi_surrogate_uchar)
                    end
                    hi_surrogate = nil
                    table.insert(tab, uchar)
                end
            end
            prevcharcode = charcode
        end
    end
    return tab
end

--- Tests whether c is a CJK character
---- @string c
---- @treturn boolean true if CJK
function util.isCJKChar(c)
    return string.match(c, "[\228-\234][\128-\191].") == c
end

--- Tests whether str contains CJK characters
---- @string str
---- @treturn boolean true if CJK
function util.hasCJKChar(str)
    return string.match(str, "[\228-\234][\128-\191].") ~= nil
end

--- Split texts into a list of words, spaces and punctuation.
---- @string text text to split
---- @treturn table list of words, spaces and punctuation
function util.splitToWords(text)
    local wlist = {}
    for word in util.gsplit(text, "[%s%p]+", true) do
        -- if space splitted word contains CJK characters
        if util.hasCJKChar(word) then
            -- split with CJK characters
            for char in util.gsplit(word, "[\228-\234\192-\255][\128-\191]+", true) do
                table.insert(wlist, char)
            end
        else
            table.insert(wlist, word)
        end
    end
    return wlist
end

-- We don't want to split on a space if it is followed by some
-- specific punctuation : e.g. "word :" or "word )"
-- (In french, there is a space before a colon, and it better
-- not be wrapped there.)
local non_splittable_space_tailers = ":;,.!?)]}$%=-+*/|<>»”"
-- Same if a space has some specific other punctuation before it
local non_splittable_space_leaders = "([{$=-+*/|<>«“"


-- Similar rules exist for CJK text. Taken from :
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_breaking_rules_in_East_Asian_languages

local cjk_non_splittable_tailers = table.concat( {
    -- Simplified Chinese
    "!%),.:;?]}¢°·’\"†‡›℃∶、。〃〆〕〗〞﹚﹜！＂％＇），．：；？！］｝～",
    -- Traditional Chinese
    "!),.:;?]}¢·–—’\"•、。〆〞〕〉》」︰︱︲︳﹐﹑﹒﹓﹔﹕﹖﹘﹚﹜！），．：；？︶︸︺︼︾﹀﹂﹗］｜｝､",
    -- Japanese
    ")]｝〕〉》」』】〙〗〟’\"｠»ヽヾーァィゥェォッャュョヮヵヶぁぃぅぇぉっゃゅょゎゕゖㇰㇱㇲㇳㇴㇵㇶㇷㇸㇹㇺㇻㇼㇽㇾㇿ々〻‐゠–〜?!‼⁇⁈⁉・、:;,。.",
    -- Korean
    "!%),.:;?]}¢°’\"†‡℃〆〈《「『〕！％），．：；？］｝",
})

local cjk_non_splittable_leaders = table.concat( {
    -- Simplified Chinese
    "$(£¥·‘\"〈《「『【〔〖〝﹙﹛＄（．［｛￡￥",
    -- Traditional Chinese
    "([{£¥‘\"‵〈《「『〔〝︴﹙﹛（｛︵︷︹︻︽︿﹁﹃﹏",
    -- Japanese
    "([｛〔〈《「『【〘〖〝‘\"｟«",
    -- Korean
    "$([{£¥‘\"々〇〉》」〔＄（［｛｠￥￦#",
})

local cjk_non_splittable = table.concat( {
    -- Japanese
    "—…‥〳〴〵",
})

--- Test whether a string can be separated by this char for multi-line rendering.
-- Optional next or prev chars may be provided to help make the decision
---- @string c
---- @string next_c
---- @string prev_c
---- @treturn boolean true if splittable, false if not
function util.isSplittable(c, next_c, prev_c)
    if util.isCJKChar(c) then
        -- a CJKChar is a word in itself, and so is splittable
        if cjk_non_splittable:find(c, 1, true) then
            -- except a few of them
            return false
        elseif next_c and cjk_non_splittable_tailers:find(next_c, 1, true) then
            -- but followed by a char that is not permitted at start of line
            return false
        elseif prev_c and cjk_non_splittable_leaders:find(prev_c, 1, true) then
            -- but preceded by a char that is not permitted at end of line
            return false
        else
            -- we can split on this CJKchar
            return true
        end
    elseif c == " " then
        -- we only split on a space (so punctuation sticks to prev word)
        -- if next_c or prev_c is provided, we can make a better decision
        if next_c and non_splittable_space_tailers:find(next_c, 1, true) then
            -- this space is followed by some punctuation that is better kept with us
            return false
        elseif prev_c and non_splittable_space_leaders:find(prev_c, 1, true) then
            -- this space is lead by some punctuation that is better kept with us
            return false
        else
            -- we can split on this space
            return true
        end
    end
    -- otherwise, non splittable
    return false
end

--- Gets filesystem type of a path.
--
-- Checks if the path occurs in <code>/proc/mounts</code>
---- @string path an absolute path
---- @treturn string filesystem type
function util.getFilesystemType(path)
    local mounts = io.open("/proc/mounts", "r")
    if not mounts then return nil end
    local type
    while true do
        local line
        local mount = {}
        line = mounts:read()
        if line == nil then
            break
        end
        for param in line:gmatch("%S+") do table.insert(mount, param) end
        if string.match(path, mount[2]) then
            type = mount[3]
            if mount[2] ~= '/' then
                break
            end
        end
    end
    mounts:close()
    return type
end

--- Checks if directory is empty.
---- @string path
---- @treturn bool
function util.isEmptyDir(path)
    local lfs = require("libs/libkoreader-lfs")
    -- lfs.dir will crash rather than return nil if directory doesn't exist O_o
    local ok, iter, dir_obj = pcall(lfs.dir, path)
    if not ok then return end
    for filename in iter, dir_obj do
        if filename ~= '.' and filename ~= '..' then
            return false
        end
    end
    return true
end

--- Checks if the given path exists. Doesn't care if it's a file or directory.
---- @string path
---- @treturn bool
function util.pathExists(path)
    local lfs = require("libs/libkoreader-lfs")
    return lfs.attributes(path, "mode") ~= nil
end

--- As `mkdir -p`.
--- Unlike lfs.mkdir(), does not error if the directory already exists, and
--- creates intermediate directories as needed.
---- @string path the directory to create
---- @treturn bool true on success; nil, err_message on error
function util.makePath(path)
    path = path:gsub("/+$", "")
    if util.pathExists(path) then return true end

    local success, err = util.makePath((util.splitFilePathName(path)))
    if not success then
        return nil, err.." (creating "..path..")"
    end

    local lfs = require("libs/libkoreader-lfs")
    return lfs.mkdir(path)
end

--- Replaces characters that are invalid filenames.
--
-- Replaces the characters <code>\/:*?"<>|</code> with an <code>_</code>.
-- These characters are problematic on Windows filesystems. On Linux only
-- <code>/</code> poses a problem.
---- @string str filename
---- @treturn string sanitized filename
local function replaceAllInvalidChars(str)
    if str then
        return str:gsub('[\\,%/,:,%*,%?,%",%<,%>,%|]','_')
    end
end

--- Replaces slash with an underscore.
---- @string str
---- @treturn string
local function replaceSlashChar(str)
    if str then
        return str:gsub('%/','_')
    end
end

--- Replaces characters that are invalid filenames.
--
-- Replaces the characters <code>\/:*?"<>|</code> with an <code>_</code>
-- unless an optional path is provided.
-- These characters are problematic on Windows filesystems. On Linux only
-- <code>/</code> poses a problem.
-- If an optional path is provided, util.getFilesystemType() will be used
-- to determine whether stricter VFAT restrictions should be applied.
---- @string str
---- @string path
---- @int limit
---- @treturn string
function util.getSafeFilename(str, path, limit)
    local filename, suffix = util.splitFileNameSuffix(str)
    local replaceFunc = replaceSlashChar
    local safe_filename
    -- VFAT supports a maximum of 255 UCS-2 characters, although it's probably treated as UTF-16 by Windows
    -- default to a slightly lower limit just in case
    limit = limit or 240

    if path then
        local file_system = util.getFilesystemType(path)
        if file_system == "vfat" or file_system == "fuse.fsp" then
            replaceFunc = replaceAllInvalidChars
        end
    end

    filename = filename:sub(1, limit)
    -- the limit might result in broken UTF-8, which we don't want in the result
    filename = util.fixUtf8(filename, "")

    if suffix and suffix ~= "" then
        safe_filename = replaceFunc(filename) .. "." .. replaceFunc(suffix)
    else
        safe_filename = replaceFunc(filename)
    end

    return safe_filename
end

--- Splits a file into its directory path and file name.
--- If the given path has a trailing /, returns the entire path as the directory
--- path and "" as the file name.
---- @string file
---- @treturn string path, filename
function util.splitFilePathName(file)
    if file == nil or file == "" then return "", "" end
    if string.find(file, "/") == nil then return "", file end
    return string.gsub(file, "(.*/)(.*)", "%1"), string.gsub(file, ".*/", "")
end

--- Splits a file name into its pure file name and suffix
---- @string file
---- @treturn string path, extension
function util.splitFileNameSuffix(file)
    if file == nil or file == "" then return "", "" end
    if string.find(file, "%.") == nil then return file, "" end
    return string.gsub(file, "(.*)%.(.*)", "%1"), string.gsub(file, ".*%.", "")
end

--- Gets file extension
---- @string filename
---- @treturn string extension
function util.getFileNameSuffix(file)
    local _, suffix = util.splitFileNameSuffix(file)
    return suffix
end

--- Gets human friendly size as string
---- @int size (bytes)
---- @treturn string
function util.getFriendlySize(size)
    size = tonumber(size)
    if not size or type(size) ~= "number" then return end
    local s
    if size > 1024*1024*1024 then
        s = string.format("%4.1f GB", size/1024/1024/1024)
    elseif size > 1024*1024 then
        s = string.format("%4.1f MB", size/1024/1024)
    elseif size > 1024 then
        s = string.format("%4.1f KB", size/1024)
    else
        s = string.format("%d B", size)
    end
    return s
end

--- Gets formatted size as string (1273334 => "1,273,334")
---- @int size (bytes)
---- @treturn string
function util.getFormattedSize(size)
    local s = tostring(size)
    s = s:reverse():gsub("(%d%d%d)", "%1,")
    s = s:reverse():gsub("^,", "")
    return s
end

--- Adds > to touch menu items with a submenu
function util.getMenuText(item)
    local text
    if item.text_func then
        text = item.text_func()
    else
        text = item.text
    end
    if item.sub_item_table ~= nil or item.sub_item_table_func then
        text = text .. " \226\150\184"
    end
    return text
end

--- Replaces invalid UTF-8 characters with a replacement string.
--
-- Based on http://notebook.kulchenko.com/programming/fixing-malformed-utf8-in-lua
---- @string str the string to be checked for invalid characters
---- @string replacement the string to replace invalid characters with
---- @treturn string valid UTF-8
function util.fixUtf8(str, replacement)
    local pos = 1
    local len = #str
    while pos <= len do
        if     pos == str:find("[%z\1-\127]", pos) then pos = pos + 1
        elseif pos == str:find("[\194-\223][\128-\191]", pos) then pos = pos + 2
        elseif pos == str:find(       "\224[\160-\191][\128-\191]", pos)
            or pos == str:find("[\225-\236][\128-\191][\128-\191]", pos)
            or pos == str:find(       "\237[\128-\159][\128-\191]", pos)
            or pos == str:find("[\238-\239][\128-\191][\128-\191]", pos) then pos = pos + 3
        elseif pos == str:find(       "\240[\144-\191][\128-\191][\128-\191]", pos)
            or pos == str:find("[\241-\243][\128-\191][\128-\191][\128-\191]", pos)
            or pos == str:find(       "\244[\128-\143][\128-\191][\128-\191]", pos) then pos = pos + 4
        else
            str = str:sub(1, pos - 1) .. replacement .. str:sub(pos + 1)
            pos = pos + #replacement
            len = len + #replacement - 1
        end
    end
    return str
end

--- Splits input string with the splitter into a table. This function ignores the last empty entity.
--
--- @string str the string to be split
--- @string splitter
--- @bool capture_empty_entity
--- @treturn an array-like table
function util.splitToArray(str, splitter, capture_empty_entity)
    local result = {}
    for word in util.gsplit(str, splitter, false, capture_empty_entity) do
        table.insert(result, word)
    end
    return result
end

--- Convert a Unicode codepoint (number) to UTF8 char
--
--- @int c Unicode codepoint
--- @treturn string UTF8 char
function util.unicodeCodepointToUtf8(c)
    if c < 128 then
        return string.char(c)
    elseif c < 2048 then
        return string.char(192 + c/64, 128 + c%64)
    elseif c < 55296 or 57343 < c and c < 65536 then
        return string.char(224 + c/4096, 128 + c/64%64, 128 + c%64)
    elseif c < 1114112 then
        return string.char(240 + c/262144, 128 + c/4096%64, 128 + c/64%64, 128 + c%64)
    else
        return util.unicodeCodepointToUtf8(65533) -- U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER
    end
end

-- we need to use an array of arrays to keep them ordered as written
local HTML_ENTITIES_TO_UTF8 = {
    {"&lt;", "<"},
    {"&gt;", ">"},
    {"&quot;", '"'},
    {"&apos;", "'"},
    {"&nbsp;", "\xC2\xA0"},
    {"&#(%d+);", function(x) return util.unicodeCodepointToUtf8(tonumber(x)) end},
    {"&#x(%x+);", function(x) return util.unicodeCodepointToUtf8(tonumber(x,16)) end},
    {"&amp;", "&"}, -- must be last
}
--- Replace HTML entities with their UTF8 equivalent in text
--
-- Supports only basic ones and those with numbers (no support
-- for named entities like &eacute;)
--- @int string text with HTML entities
--- @treturn string UTF8 text
function util.htmlEntitiesToUtf8(text)
    for _, t in ipairs(HTML_ENTITIES_TO_UTF8) do
        text = text:gsub(t[1], t[2])
    end
    return text
end

--- Convert simple HTML to plain text
-- This may fail on complex HTML (with styles, scripts, comments), but should
-- be fine enough with simple HTML as found in EPUB's <dc:description>.
--
--- @string text HTML text
--- @treturn string plain text
function util.htmlToPlainText(text)
    -- Replace <br> and <p> with \n
    text = text:gsub("%s*<%s*br%s*/?>%s*", "\n") -- <br> and <br/>
    text = text:gsub("%s*<%s*p%s*>%s*", "\n") -- <p>
    text = text:gsub("%s*</%s*p%s*>%s*", "\n") -- </p>
    text = text:gsub("%s*<%s*p%s*/>%s*", "\n") -- standalone <p/>
    -- Remove all HTML tags
    text = text:gsub("<[^>]*>", "")
    -- Convert HTML entities
    text = util.htmlEntitiesToUtf8(text)
    -- Trim spaces and new lines at start and end
    text = text:gsub("^[\n%s]*", "")
    text = text:gsub("[\n%s]*$", "")
    return text
end

--- Convert HTML to plain text if text seems to be HTML
-- Detection of HTML is simple and may raise false positives
-- or negatives, but seems quite good at guessing content type
-- of text found in EPUB's <dc:description>.
--
--- @string text the string with possibly some HTML
--- @treturn string cleaned text
function util.htmlToPlainTextIfHtml(text)
    local is_html = false
    -- Quick way to check if text is some HTML:
    -- look for html tags
    local _, nb_tags
    _, nb_tags = text:gsub("<%w+.->", "")
    if nb_tags > 0 then
        is_html = true
    else
        -- no <tag> found
        -- but we may meet some text badly twicely encoded html containing "&lt;br&gt;"
        local nb_encoded_tags
        _, nb_encoded_tags = text:gsub("&lt;%a+&gt;", "")
        if nb_encoded_tags > 0 then
            is_html = true
            -- decode one of the two encodes
            text = util.htmlEntitiesToUtf8(text)
        end
    end

    if is_html then
        text = util.htmlToPlainText(text)
    else
        -- if text ends with ]]>, it probably comes from <![CDATA[ .. ]]> that
        -- crengine has extracted correctly, but let the ending tag in, so
        -- let's remove it
        text = text:gsub("]]>%s*$", "")
    end
    return text
end

--- Encode the HTML entities in a string
--- @string text the string to escape
-- Taken from https://github.com/kernelsauce/turbo/blob/e4a35c2e3fb63f07464f8f8e17252bea3a029685/turbo/escape.lua#L58-L70
function util.htmlEscape(text)
    return text:gsub("[}{\">/<'&]", {
        ["&"] = "&amp;",
        ["<"] = "&lt;",
        [">"] = "&gt;",
        ['"'] = "&quot;",
        ["'"] = "&#39;",
        ["/"] = "&#47;",
    })
end

--- Escape list for shell usage
--- @table args the list of arguments to escape
--- @treturn string the escaped and concatenated arguments
function util.shell_escape(args)
    local escaped_args = {}
    for _, arg in ipairs(args) do
        arg = "'" .. arg:gsub("'", "'\\''") .. "'"
        table.insert(escaped_args, arg)
    end
    return table.concat(escaped_args, " ")
end

--- Clear all the elements from a table without reassignment.
--- @table t the table to be cleared
function util.clearTable(t)
    local c = #t
    for i = 0, c do t[i] = nil end
end

--- Encode URL also known as percent-encoding see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding
--- @string text the string to encode
--- @treturn encode string
--- Taken from https://gist.github.com/liukun/f9ce7d6d14fa45fe9b924a3eed5c3d99
function util.urlEncode(url)
    local char_to_hex = function(c)
        return string.format("%%%02X", string.byte(c))
    end
    if url == nil then
        return
    end
    url = url:gsub("\n", "\r\n")
    url = url:gsub("([^%w%-%.%_%~%!%*%'%(%)])", char_to_hex)
    return url
end

--- Decode URL (reverse process to util.urlEncode())
--- @string text the string to decode
--- @treturn decode string
--- Taken from https://gist.github.com/liukun/f9ce7d6d14fa45fe9b924a3eed5c3d99
function util.urlDecode(url)
    local hex_to_char = function(x)
        return string.char(tonumber(x, 16))
    end
    if url == nil then
        return
    end
    url = url:gsub("%%(%x%x)", hex_to_char)
    return url
end

--- Check lua syntax of string
--- @string text lua code text
--- @treturn string with parsing error, nil if syntax ok
function util.checkLuaSyntax(lua_text)
    local lua_code_ok, err = loadstring(lua_text)
    if lua_code_ok then
        return nil
    end
    -- Replace: [string "blah blah..."]:3: '=' expected near '123'
    -- with: Line 3: '=' expected near '123'
    err = err:gsub("%[string \".-%\"]:", "Line ")
    return err
end

--- Unpack an archive.
-- Extract the contents of an archive, detecting its format by
-- filename extension. Inspired by luarocks archive_unpack()
-- @param archive string: Filename of archive.
-- @param extract_to string: Destination directory.
-- @return boolean or (boolean, string): true on success, false and an error message on failure.
function util.unpackArchive(archive, extract_to)
    dbg.dassert(type(archive) == "string")

    local ok
    if archive:match("%.tar%.bz2$") or archive:match("%.tar%.gz$") or archive:match("%.tar%.lz$") or archive:match("%.tgz$") then
        ok = os.execute(("./tar xf %q -C %q"):format(archive, extract_to))
    else
        return false, T(_("Couldn't extract archive:\n\n%1\n\nUnrecognized filename extension."), archive)
    end
    if not ok then
        return false, T(_("Extracting archive failed:\n\n%1", archive))
    end
    return true
end

-- Simple startsWith / endsWith string helpers
-- c.f., http://lua-users.org/wiki/StringRecipes
-- @param str string: source string
-- @param start string: string to match
-- @return boolean: true on success
function util.stringStartsWith(str, start)
   return str:sub(1, #start) == start
end

-- @param str string: source string
-- @param ending string: string to match
-- @return boolean: true on success
function util.stringEndsWith(str, ending)
   return ending == "" or str:sub(-#ending) == ending
end

return util