nix-super/src/libutil/source-accessor.hh
John Ericson ce4ca574d2 Clarify SourceAccessor methods should never implicitly follow symlinks
The code has already been fixed (yay!) so what is left of this commit is
just updating the API docs.

Co-authored-by: Cole Helbling <cole.e.helbling@outlook.com>
2023-12-08 20:00:47 -05:00

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#pragma once
#include "canon-path.hh"
#include "hash.hh"
namespace nix {
struct Sink;
/**
* A read-only filesystem abstraction. This is used by the Nix
* evaluator and elsewhere for accessing sources in various
* filesystem-like entities (such as the real filesystem, tarballs or
* Git repositories).
*/
struct SourceAccessor
{
const size_t number;
std::string displayPrefix, displaySuffix;
SourceAccessor();
virtual ~SourceAccessor()
{ }
/**
* Return the contents of a file as a string.
*
* @note Unlike Unix, this method should *not* follow symlinks. Nix
* by default wants to manipulate symlinks explicitly, and not
* implictly follow them, as they are frequently untrusted user data
* and thus may point to arbitrary locations. Acting on the targets
* targets of symlinks should only occasionally be done, and only
* with care.
*/
virtual std::string readFile(const CanonPath & path);
/**
* Write the contents of a file as a sink. `sizeCallback` must be
* called with the size of the file before any data is written to
* the sink.
*
* @note Like the other `readFile`, this method should *not* follow
* symlinks.
*
* @note subclasses of `SourceAccessor` need to implement at least
* one of the `readFile()` variants.
*/
virtual void readFile(
const CanonPath & path,
Sink & sink,
std::function<void(uint64_t)> sizeCallback = [](uint64_t size){});
virtual bool pathExists(const CanonPath & path);
enum Type {
tRegular, tSymlink, tDirectory,
/**
Any other node types that may be encountered on the file system, such as device nodes, sockets, named pipe, and possibly even more exotic things.
Responsible for `"unknown"` from `builtins.readFileType "/dev/null"`.
Unlike `DT_UNKNOWN`, this must not be used for deferring the lookup of types.
*/
tMisc
};
struct Stat
{
Type type = tMisc;
/**
* For regular files only: the size of the file. Not all
* accessors return this since it may be too expensive to
* compute.
*/
std::optional<uint64_t> fileSize;
/**
* For regular files only: whether this is an executable.
*/
bool isExecutable = false;
/**
* For regular files only: the position of the contents of this
* file in the NAR. Only returned by NAR accessors.
*/
std::optional<uint64_t> narOffset;
};
Stat lstat(const CanonPath & path);
virtual std::optional<Stat> maybeLstat(const CanonPath & path) = 0;
typedef std::optional<Type> DirEntry;
typedef std::map<std::string, DirEntry> DirEntries;
/**
* @note Like `readFile`, this method should *not* follow symlinks.
*/
virtual DirEntries readDirectory(const CanonPath & path) = 0;
virtual std::string readLink(const CanonPath & path) = 0;
virtual void dumpPath(
const CanonPath & path,
Sink & sink,
PathFilter & filter = defaultPathFilter);
Hash hashPath(
const CanonPath & path,
PathFilter & filter = defaultPathFilter,
HashAlgorithm ha = HashAlgorithm::SHA256);
/**
* Return a corresponding path in the root filesystem, if
* possible. This is only possible for filesystems that are
* materialized in the root filesystem.
*/
virtual std::optional<CanonPath> getPhysicalPath(const CanonPath & path)
{ return std::nullopt; }
bool operator == (const SourceAccessor & x) const
{
return number == x.number;
}
bool operator < (const SourceAccessor & x) const
{
return number < x.number;
}
void setPathDisplay(std::string displayPrefix, std::string displaySuffix = "");
virtual std::string showPath(const CanonPath & path);
};
}