" vimexpect.vim is a small object-oriented library that simplifies the task of " scripting communication with jobs or any interactive program. The name " `expect` comes from the famous tcl extension that has the same purpose. " " This library is built upon two simple concepts: Parsers and States. " " A State represents a program state and associates a set of regular " expressions(to parse program output) with method names(to deal with parsed " output). States are created with the vimexpect#State(patterns) function. " " A Parser manages data received from the program. It also manages State " objects by storing them into a stack, where the top of the stack is the " current State. Parsers are created with the vimexpect#Parser(initial_state, " target) function " " The State methods are defined by the user, and are always called with `self` " set as the Parser target. Advanced control flow is achieved by changing the " current state with the `push`/`pop`/`switch` parser methods. " " An example of this library in action can be found in Neovim source " code(contrib/neovim_gdb subdirectory) let s:State = {} " Create a new State instance with a list where each item is a [regexp, name] " pair. A method named `name` must be defined in the created instance. function s:State.create(patterns) let this = copy(self) let this._patterns = a:patterns return this endfunction let s:Parser = {} let s:Parser.LINE_BUFFER_MAX_LEN = 100 " Create a new Parser instance with the initial state and a target. The target " is a dictionary that will be the `self` of every State method call associated " with the parser, and may contain options normally passed to " `jobstart`(on_stdout/on_stderr will be overriden). Returns the target so it " can be called directly as the second argument of `jobstart`: " " call jobstart(prog_argv, vimexpect#Parser(initial_state, {'pty': 1})) function s:Parser.create(initial_state, target) let parser = copy(self) let parser._line_buffer = [] let parser._stack = [a:initial_state] let parser._target = a:target let parser._target.on_stdout = function('s:JobOutput') let parser._target.on_stderr = function('s:JobOutput') let parser._target._parser = parser return parser._target endfunction " Push a state to the state stack function s:Parser.push(state) call add(self._stack, a:state) endfunction " Pop a state from the state stack. Fails if there's only one state remaining. function s:Parser.pop() if len(self._stack) == 1 throw 'vimexpect:emptystack:State stack cannot be empty' endif return remove(self._stack, -1) endfunction " Replace the state currently in the top of the stack. function s:Parser.switch(state) let old_state = self._stack[-1] let self._stack[-1] = a:state return old_state endfunction " Append a list of lines to the parser line buffer and try to match it the " current state. This will shift old lines if the buffer crosses its " limit(defined by the LINE_BUFFER_MAX_LEN field). During normal operation, " this function is called by the job handler provided by this module, but it " may be called directly by the user for other purposes(testing for example) function s:Parser.feed(lines) if empty(a:lines) return endif let lines = a:lines let linebuf = self._line_buffer if lines[0] != "\n" && !empty(linebuf) " continue the previous line let linebuf[-1] .= lines[0] call remove(lines, 0) endif " append the newly received lines to the line buffer let linebuf += lines " keep trying to match handlers while the line isnt empty while !empty(linebuf) let match_idx = self.parse(linebuf) if match_idx == -1 break endif let linebuf = linebuf[match_idx + 1 : ] endwhile " shift excess lines from the buffer while len(linebuf) > self.LINE_BUFFER_MAX_LEN call remove(linebuf, 0) endwhile let self._line_buffer = linebuf endfunction " Try to match a list of lines with the current state and call the handler if " the match succeeds. Return the index in `lines` of the first match. function s:Parser.parse(lines) let lines = a:lines if empty(lines) return -1 endif let state = self.state() " search for a match using the list of patterns for [pattern, handler] in state._patterns let matches = matchlist(lines, pattern) if empty(matches) continue endif let match_idx = match(lines, pattern) call call(state[handler], matches[1:], self._target) return match_idx endfor endfunction " Return the current state function s:Parser.state() return self._stack[-1] endfunction " Job handler that simply forwards lines to the parser. function! s:JobOutput(_id, lines, _event) dict call self._parser.feed(a:lines) endfunction function vimexpect#Parser(initial_state, target) return s:Parser.create(a:initial_state, a:target) endfunction function vimexpect#State(patterns) return s:State.create(a:patterns) endfunction