/** @file $Id$ $Date$ $Author$ @copy © Marc Wäckerlin @license LGPL, see file COPYING $Log$ Revision 1.8 2005/11/29 12:39:42 marc make it compilable with gcc 4.0.2 and newer doxygen Revision 1.7 2005/04/20 18:12:55 marc added kill() for PartialExec Revision 1.6 2005/04/19 18:48:00 marc new feature PartialExec Revision 1.5 2004/12/14 20:30:09 marc added possibility to pass string to stdin of child process Revision 1.4 2004/10/07 09:27:01 marc errors in documentation Revision 1.3 2004/08/28 16:21:25 marc mrw-c++-0.92 (mrw) - new file: version.cpp - new file header for all sources - work around warning in mrw::auto - possibility to compile without log4cxx - work around bugs in demangle.h and libiberty.h - corrections in documentation - added simple tracing mechanism - more warnings - small corrections in Auto<>::Free and a new test for it - possibility to compile without stack trace */ #ifndef __MRW_EXEC_HPP__ #define __MRW_EXEC_HPP__ #include #include #include #include namespace mrw { /** @defgroup CmdExec Execute UNIX Commands There is no easy way to safely execute UNIX commands and to return the output of the callee to the caller. @c system ist first of all known to be unsafe, because it opens a shell, and second there is no way to transfer the output back to the caller. On the other hand, starting a new process with @c fork and @c exec and passing the output of the callee to the caller using pipes is quite complex and needs much more than one simple line of code. This is the gap that is filled with this command execution classes. There's a class for the command to be executed and a class for the execution of the command. Forking a subprocess and evaluating the result becomes so easy: @code try { // execute the command: /bin/ls -l /tmp mrw::Exec ls = (mrw::Cmd("/bin/ls"), "-l", "/tmp").execute(false); // evaluate the result if (ls.success()) std::cout<<"Execution successful, result was:"< This exception is thrown, if the exection of a command in mrw::Exec is failed. That means, it was not possible to fork or to create the necessary pipes, or the command executing process terminated with an error. In the last case, you can access the error stream from @c stderr respectively @c cerr with method mrw::Exec::error(). */ class ExecutionFailedExc: public mrw::exception { public: ExecutionFailedExc(const std::string&, const std::string&) throw(std::bad_exception); virtual ~ExecutionFailedExc() throw() {} virtual const char* what() const throw() {return _what.c_str();} private: std::string _what; }; //============================================================================ /** @brief Execute a command in a new process. @pre \#include This class handles the execution of a command in a new process and returns the two streams @c cout and @c cerr, also known as @c stderr and @c stdout. Method @c execute can optionally also take a string parameter that is passed to @c stdin of the child process. There are different ways of usage for this class. A simple way, one line of code, to get only the resulting stream (no error) is: @code string stdout = (mrw::Cmd("/bin/ls"), "-l", "/tmp").execute(false).result(); @endcode If you need not only the resulting @c stdout stream, but also the error stream @c stderr, then you need to store the result: @code mrw::Exec ls = (mrw::Cmd("/bin/ls"), "-l", "/tmp").execute(false); if (!ls) ...; // command termianted with error // ls.result() contains stdout // ls.error() contains stderr @endcode @note Please note that the command execution may throw an exception. */ class Exec { //................................................................ methods public: /** @brief Create an executor given a command. Construction without passing a command is not possible. */ Exec(const mrw::Cmd&) throw(std::bad_exception); Exec(const mrw::Exec&) throw(std::bad_exception); ~Exec() throw(); Exec& operator=(const mrw::Exec&) throw(std::bad_exception); /** @brief Execute the command. @param exc - @c true throw an exception if return status is not zero - @c false throw only an exception in case of a fatal error @throw ExecutionFailedExc is thrown if - fork fails - creation or setup of pipes failed - if given parameter is @c true (the default) also if the executed program terminates with an error */ Exec& execute(bool exc=true) throw(std::exception); /** @brief Execute the command, pass @c stdin. @param input Input that is passed to @c stdin of the child process. @param exc - @c true throw an exception if return status is not zero - @c false throw only an exception in case of a fatal error @throw ExecutionFailedExc is thrown if - fork fails - creation or setup of pipes failed - if given parameter is @c true (the default) also if the executed program terminates with an error */ Exec& execute(const std::string& input, bool exc=true) throw(std::exception); /** @brief Execute the command, pass @c stdin. @param input Input that is passed to @c stdin of the child process. @param exc - @c true throw an exception if return status is not zero - @c false throw only an exception in case of a fatal error @throw ExecutionFailedExc is thrown if - fork fails - creation or setup of pipes failed - if given parameter is @c true (the default) also if the executed program terminates with an error */ Exec& execute(char const*const input, bool exc=true) throw(std::exception) { return execute(std::string(input), exc); } /** @brief Executes the command if not done, streams @c stdout into a string If the command has not yet been executed successfully, it is first executed, then the @c stdout output of the called program is appended to the string. @throw ExecutionFailedExc in case of any failure or if the executed program does not return a zero exit status. */ Exec& operator>>(std::string&) throw(std::exception); /** @brief Executes the command if not done, returns @c stdout as string If the command has not yet been executed successfully, it is first executed, then the @c stdout output of the called program is returned. @return @c stdout of the called program @throw ExecutionFailedExc in case of any failure or if the executed program does not return a zero exit status. */ operator std::string&() throw(std::exception); /** @return - @c true if the last execution was successful - @c false if the last execution failed or the command was never executed */ operator bool() throw(std::bad_exception); /** @brief Executes the command if not done, returns @c stdout as string If the command has not yet been executed successfully, it is first executed, then the @c stdout output of the called program is returned. @return @c stdout of the called program @throw ExecutionFailedExc in case of any failure or if the executed program does not return a zero exit status. */ std::string& result() throw(std::exception); /** @brief Executes the command if not done, returns @c stderr as string If the command has not yet been executed successfully, it is first executed, then the @c stderr error output of the called program is returned. @return @c stderr of the called program @throw ExecutionFailedExc in case of any failure or if the executed program does not return a zero exit status. */ std::string& error() throw(std::exception); /** @return - @c true if the last execution was successful - @c false if the last execution failed or the command was never executed */ bool success() throw(std::bad_exception); //................................................................ methods private: Exec(); // no default constructor //.............................................................. variables private: friend class PartialExec; // don't want the variables protected mrw::Cmd* _cmd; std::string _res, _err; bool _success; }; //============================================================================ /** @brief Execute a UNIX program in non blocking parts. @pre \#include A given UNIX command is executed, but the class does not wait until it is finished, instead it gives back the control to the caller. This behaviour is achieved using non blocking communication. But the caller is responsible to retrieve all information from the client, and if necessary to close the input pipe of the client executable program. Therefore you have to give back control from time to time, normally this is doen in a @c while loop, where you can execute also different thing, e.g. update a display of the result or similar. With this class, you can communicate with a child process, and do other things at the same time, without the need for multi threading. Execution of a program works the following way: - do not use execute() (otherwise the behaviours is identical to class mrw::Exec, you gain nothing, but also loose nothing) - use start() to start the external program - use start() or @c start(false) if you don't want to pass input to the child process - use @c start(true) if you want to pass input to the child process - if you called @c start(true), call finish() if you have no more input to send to the child process (it's like an end-of-file) - the execution is not terminated, before finished() returns @c true - while finished() is false, subsequently call read() to read the output of the child process @warning After calling finish(), or if you did not call start() with parameter @c true, it is forbidden to pass anything but an empty string as first parameter to read()! Anything else is a programming error and results in an assertion failure and a core dump! @note If your program seems to hang, check if you call finish() correctly! Here an example: @code mrw::PartialExec exec = mrw::Cmd("/bin/cat").start(true); std::string res = exec.read("This is a test\n").first; res += exec.read("This is another test\n").first; exec.finish(); // close the input pipe of @c cat while (!exec.finished()) res+=exec.read().first; @endcode */ class PartialExec: public Exec { //................................................................ methods public: /** @brief Create an executor given a command. Construction without passing a command is not possible. */ PartialExec(const mrw::Cmd&) throw(std::bad_exception); /** @brief Copy construction invalidates the original object. All opened pipes (opened with start()) are lost in the original object and are then owned by the new object. */ PartialExec(mrw::PartialExec&) throw(std::bad_exception); /** @brief Copy construction invalidates the original object. @copydoc PartialExec(mrw::PartialExec&) @warning @c const for the argument is a fake! It is casted away! @param e @b Warning: const is casted away! */ PartialExec(const mrw::PartialExec& e) throw(std::bad_exception); /** @brief Assignment invalidates the original object. @copydoc PartialExec(mrw::PartialExec&) */ PartialExec& operator=(mrw::PartialExec&) throw(std::bad_exception); /** @brief Close the input pipe of the child process. If start() is called with argument @c false, then you can pass input to @c stdin of the child process, but you @b must call this method, after passing the last input string. Otherwise, the child's input pipe won't be closed, the child process does not stop waiting for more input! If your program seems to hang, check if you call finish() correctly! */ PartialExec& finish() throw(); /** @brief Check if there's more data left to read(). @return @c true if the child process has finished and all data is read. */ bool finished() throw(); /** @brief Start a new child process. At most one child process can run at the same time. @throw mrw::runtime_error if a previous child has not finished() yet @throw mrw::ExecutionFailedExc if the child process cannot be started @param useInput - @c true if input will be sent to the child's @c stdin - pass all input in the first parameter of read() - finish() must be called when all input is sent - @c false if no input is sent to the child's @c stdin - the first parameter of read must allways be passed an empty string */ PartialExec& start(bool useInput=false) throw(std::exception); /** @brief Read from the subprocess, optionally pass an @c input to @c stdin of the subprocess. @param input a string to pass to the child processes @c stdin @param exc - @c true throw an exception if return status is not zero - @c false throw only an exception in case of a fatal error @return a pair containing the last read @c stdout and @c stderr of the child @throw ExecutionFailedExc is thrown if - fork fails - creation or setup of pipes failed - if given parameter is @c true (the default) also if the executed program terminates with an error @note If start() was not called with parameter @c true, then @c input must always be an empty string! @pre start() was called */ std::pair read(const std::string& input="", bool exc=true) throw(std::exception); /// Terminates a running job by sending @c SIGTERM to the child process. PartialExec& terminate() throw(); /// Kills a running job by sending @c SIGKILL to the child process. PartialExec& kill() throw(); //................................................................ methods private: PartialExec(); // no default constructor //.............................................................. variables private: bool _finished; bool _finish; std::auto_ptr _stdIn, _stdOut, _stdErr; std::string _input; int _num0, _num1, _num2, _lastPid, _pid; }; //============================================================================ /** @brief A system command to be executed @pre \#include This class is used in conjunction with mrw::Exec. It must be initialized with the command name, then the command parameters are appended either with commas, or by streaming them into the command, whatever you like. You can stream the data into the class: @code mrw::Cmd ls("/bin/ls"); // the command to execute is: /bin/ls ls<<"-l"<<"/tmp"; // the command is now: /bin/ls -l /tmp @endcode Or you can setup your command with commas: @code mrw::Cmd ls = (mrw::Cmd(/bin/ls), "-l", "/tmp"); @endcode */ class Cmd { public: /** @brief Create a command given the name of the executable @param command the name of the program to execute (no parameter) @note There is no default constructor. */ Cmd(const std::string& command) throw(std::bad_exception); /** @brief Append a parameter to a command @param param a parameter / commandline argument to append to the command */ Cmd& operator,(const std::string& param) throw(std::bad_exception); /** @brief Append a parameter to a command @param param a parameter / commandline argument to append to the command */ Cmd& operator<<(const std::string& param) throw(std::bad_exception); /** @return the command including parameter */ operator std::string() const throw(std::bad_exception); /** @return a mrw::Exec that's constructed with this class */ operator mrw::Exec() const throw(std::bad_exception); /** @return a mrw::PartialExec that's constructed with this class */ operator mrw::PartialExec() const throw(std::bad_exception); /** @brief Create a mrw::Exec and execute a child process. @see Exec::execute(bool) */ Exec execute(bool exc=true) const throw(std::exception); /** @brief Create a mrw::Exec and execute a child process. @see Exec::execute(const std::string&, bool) */ Exec execute(const std::string& input, bool exc=true) const throw(std::exception); /** @brief Create a mrw::Exec and execute a child process. @see Exec::execute(char const*const, bool) */ Exec execute(char const*const input, bool exc=true) const throw(std::exception) { return execute(std::string(input), exc); } /** @brief Create a new mrw::PartialExec and start a new child process. @see PartialExec::start(bool) */ PartialExec start(bool useInput=false) const throw(std::exception); private: // Exec and PartialExec are allowed to call @c path() and @c args(). friend class Exec; friend class PartialExec; Cmd(); // No default constructor. const char* path() const throw(std::bad_exception); char** args() const throw(std::bad_exception); typedef std::list ArgList; ArgList _cmd; }; //@} } #endif