mediawiki-extensions-Scribunto/engines/LuaStandalone/protocol.txt

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The Lua standalone engine has a message-based protocol for communicating between
PHP and Lua.
Messages start with a 16 byte header. The first 8 bytes are the body length in
hexadecimal. The second 8 bytes are (length * 2 - 1) also in hexadecimal.
For messages passed from PHP to Lua, the body is encoded as a Lua expression.
The expression may reference a table in a variable called "chunks", which
contains an array of functions.
Messages passed from Lua to PHP have their body encoded in PHP serialize()
format, and then "\\", "\r", and "\n" are replaced with "\\\\", "\\r", and
"\\n" to avoid issues with text-mode file handles. They may include instances
of function objects which have an "id" member for passing back to Lua as an
index in the chunk table.
The expressions encoded into the message bodies are associative arrays. The "op"
member of the array gives the operation to be performed by the message.
Every request message demands exactly one response message in reply. When a
request message is sent, the responder does not need to send the corresponding
response message as its next message. It may instead send its own request
message. In this way, a stack of pending requests can be accumulated. This
mechanism allows re-entrant and recursive calls.
All numerically-indexed arrays should start from index 1 unless otherwise
specified. Note that the number of values in an array may not match what Lua's
'#' operator returns if the array contains nils.
== Request messages sent from PHP to Lua ==
=== loadString ===
Load some executable Lua code (a "chunk") and return the resulting function ID.
Message parameters:
* op: "loadString"
* text: The string to load
* chunkName: The name of the string, for use in error messages
On success, the response message is:
* op: "return"
* nvalues: 1
* values: An array with a single element with the ID in it
On failure, the response message is:
* op: "error"
* value: The error message
=== call ===
Call a Lua function.
Message parameters:
* op: "call"
* id: The chunk ID
* nargs: Number of arguments, including nils
* args: The argument array
On success, the response message is:
* op: "return"
* nvalues: Number of return values, including nils
* values: All return values as an array
On failure, the response message is:
* op: "error"
* value: The value given to error(), usually an error message
* trace: A table giving a backtrace of the stack as it was when error() was
called, in a similar format to the one used by debug.getinfo(). Element 1 of
the table is the function that called error(), element 2 is the function that
called that, and so on.
=== registerLibrary ===
Register a set of functions in the sandbox environment.
Message parameters:
* op: "registerLibrary"
* name: The global variable name to register. May contain "." characters to
specify a global variable subtable.
* functions: An associative array mapping function name to ID
On success, the response message is:
* op: "return"
* nvalues: 0
* values: An empty array
On failure the response message is:
* op: "error"
* value: The error message
=== getStatus ===
Get status information about the Lua process.
Message parameters:
* op: "getStatus"
On success, the response message is:
* op: "return"
* nvalues: 1
* values: An array with a single element, which is an associative array mapping
status key to value. The status keys are:
** pid: The process identifier
** time: The amount of user and system time spent by the process, measured in clock ticks
** vsize: The virtual memory size in bytes
** rss: The resident set size in bytes
On failure, the response message is:
* op: "return"
* nvalues: 0
* values: An empty array
=== cleanupChunks ===
Tell Lua to release any chunks no longer referenced by PHP.
Message parameters:
* op: "cleanupChunks"
* ids: Table with keys being the chunk IDs still referenced by PHP, and non-falsey values
The response message is:
* op: "return"
* nvalues: 0
* values: An empty array
Added tests and fixed bugs * Added unit tests for the two Lua interpreter classes * Fixed a bug in checkType() * Have Scribunto_LuaSandboxInterpreter throw an exception on construct when the extension doesn't exist, to match the standalone behaviour. * In Scribunto_LuaSandboxInterpreter, removed debugging statements accidentally left in. * Convert LuaSandboxTimeoutError to the appropriate common error message. * Moved the option munging from the sandbox engine to the interpreter, so that the interpreter can be unit tested separately. * Use /bin/sh instead of bash for lua_ulimit.sh, since dash is smaller and still supports ulimit. * Use exec to run the lua binary, so that the vsize of the shell doesn't add to the memory limit. * Added a quit function to the standalone interpreter. Unused at present. * Don't add a comma after the last element of a table in a Lua expression. * Make the SIGXCPU detection work: proc_open() runs the command via a shell, which reports signals in the child via the exit status, so proc_get_status() will never return a valid termsig element. * In MWServer:call(), fixed a bug causing the return values to be wrapped in an array. * Fixed a misunderstanding of what select() does. * In MWServer:getStatus(), fixed indexes so that vsize will be correct. Removed RSS, since it wasn't used anyway and turns out to be measured in multiples of the page size, and I couldn't be bothered trying to fetch that from getconf. Return the PID and vsize as numbers rather than strings. * Added a simple table dump feature to MWServer:debug(). * Fixed brackets in MWServer:tostring(). * Added missing Linux 32-bit binary. Change-Id: Ibf5f4656b1c0a9f81287d363184c3fe9d2abdafd
2012-04-16 04:41:08 +00:00
=== quit ===
Request graceful shutdown.
Message parameters:
* op: "quit"
No return message will be sent.
=== testquit ===
Request non-graceful shutdown, for testing.
Message parameters:
* op: "testquit"
No return message will be sent.
== Request messages sent from Lua to PHP ==
=== call ===
Call a PHP function.
Message parameters:
* op: "call"
* id: The function ID given by registerLibrary
* nargs: Number of arguments, including nils
* args: An array giving the function arguments
On success, the response message is:
* op: "return"
* nvalues: Number of return values, including nils
* values: All return values as an array
On failure the response message is:
* op: "error"
* value: The error message