Evaluating user-defined conditions
James Laver
james.laver at gmail.com
Mon Jun 9 13:10:35 BST 2014
On 9 Jun 2014, at 12:39, Abigail <abigail at abigail.be> wrote:
> In short, Safe.pm may be the answer, but depending on who your users are,
> it may be overkill, or still contain too many hooks for an attacker.
In short, if you trust the input, just eval() it, and if you don’t, you want a parser.
You might consider transforming it automatically into postfix notation and building a really simple stack machine if you just want basic arithmetic and placeholders. Otherwise, I can recommend Parse::RecDescent. Perhaps you can be cheeky and get them to write some yaml like this:
operation: +
with:
- 1
- operation: -
- with:
- 2
- operation: *
- with: [3,4]
Not very user friendly, but very easy to work with. It depends how much effort you’re willing to put in and whether you trust the input.
James
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