Loppers (loppers v1.0.0)

A code validator for the Elixir-AST.

It can operate on both white- and blacklists.

Basic example:

iex> quoted = quote do "hello" |> String.upcase |> String.pad_leading(4, "0") end
iex> whitelist = Loppers.special_forms ++ [{Kernel, :|>}, {String, :upcase}, {String, :pad_leading}]
iex> Loppers.validate(quoted, whitelist: whitelist)
:ok

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Types

error()

function_ref()

validate_option()

Functions

module_support()

All functions and macros needed to define modules, functions and set attributes

operators()

Convenience list of commonly used operators

special_forms()

A list of all macros contained in Kernel.SpecialForms.

validate(quoted, opts)

Validates a syntax tree against the given whitelist.

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error()

Specs

error() :: {:not_allowed, ast :: term()}

function_ref()

Specs

function_ref() ::
  {module :: atom(), :__all__}
  | {module :: atom(), :__submodules_all__}
  | {module :: atom(), function :: atom()}
  | (function :: atom())

validate_option()

Specs

validate_option() ::
  {:whitelist, [function_ref()]} | {:blacklist, [function_ref()]}

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module_support()

All functions and macros needed to define modules, functions and set attributes

operators()

Convenience list of commonly used operators

special_forms()

A list of all macros contained in Kernel.SpecialForms.

Without those it's going to be hard to write any elixir code.

validate(quoted, opts)

Specs

validate(quoted :: term(), opts :: [validate_option()]) ::
  :ok | {:error, [error()]}

Validates a syntax tree against the given whitelist.

Use Code.string_to_quoted/2 to get the syntax tree out of source code.

When no whitelist is defined, it is assumed that all function calls are ok, except when they exist in the blacklist.

Supplying both a white- and a blacklist can be useful, for example when you want to allow all functions of a module, except a few that you don't want:

iex> whitelist = Loppers.special_forms ++ [{Enum, :__all__}]
iex> blacklist = [{Enum, :map_reduce}]
iex> quoted = quote do Enum.map_reduce([], nil, &({&1, nil})) end
iex> Loppers.validate(quoted, [whitelist: whitelist, blacklist: blacklist])
{:error, [
  not_allowed: {{:., [parent_modules: []],
    [
      {:__aliases__, [parent_modules: [], alias: false], [:Enum]},
      :map_reduce
    ]}, [parent_modules: []],
   [
     [],
     nil,
     {:&, [parent_modules: []],
      [{{:&, [parent_modules: []], [1]}, nil}]}
   ]}
]}

Options

:whitelist - a list of function_refs that are allowed in the code
:blacklist - a list of function_refs that are forbidden in the code