This PR was submitted for the master branch but it was merged into the 2.2 branch instead (closes#9018).
Discussion
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Parallelized travis builds
| Q | A
| ------------- | ---
| Bug fix? | no
| New feature? | no
| BC breaks? | no
| Deprecations? | no
| Tests pass? | yes
| Fixed tickets | -
| License | MIT
| Doc PR | -
Yet another approach to running all tests in parallel (see #7708 and #8312).
This one uses [GNU Parallel](http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/) which by default [will run one job per available CPU](http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/man.html#jobs_n).
Comparison of random builds (recent build times on my travis account):
| PHP version| [master](https://travis-ci.org/jakzal/symfony/builds/11300678) | [parallel](https://travis-ci.org/jakzal/symfony/builds/11300689)
| ------------- | --- | ---
| 5.3.3| 6 min 11 sec | 3 min 45 sec
| 5.3| 7 min 26 sec | 4 min 10 sec
| 5.4| 6 min 31 sec | 3 min 31 sec
| 5.5| 6 min 37 sec | 3 min 45 sec
On my laptop it takes 1.5min to run a whole suite parallelised (compared to over 4min when run as usual).
Commits
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de8d1b5 Run all tests in parallel.
This PR was merged into the 2.2 branch.
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Fixed an entity class name in a benchmark test
| Q | A
| ------------- | ---
| Bug fix? | yes
| New feature? | no
| BC breaks? | no
| Deprecations? | no
| Tests pass? | yes
| Fixed tickets | -
| License | MIT
| Doc PR | -
Broken in #7940 (67ba131458). Since benchmark tests are not run on travis, it didn't complain.
Commits
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50ff35a Fixed an entity class name.
This PR was squashed before being merged into the master branch (closes#9095).
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[ExpressionLanguage] Introduce a ParserCacheInterface with array/doctrine implementations
| Q | A
| ------------- | ---
| Bug fix? | no
| New feature? | yes
| BC breaks? | no
| Deprecations? | no
| Tests pass? | yes
| Fixed tickets | N/A
| License | MIT
| Doc PR | N/A
Commits
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c8e6799 [ExpressionLanguage] Introduce a ParserCacheInterface with array/doctrine implementations
Some proxies use `ssl` instead of `https`, as well as Lighttpd mod_proxy allows
value chaining (`https, http`, where `https` is always first when request is encrypted).
This PR was merged into the master branch.
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[Security] limited the password length passed to encoders
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f7d0ec6 [Security] limited the password length passed to encoders
* 2.3:
[Locale] added support for the position argument to NumberFormatter::parse()
[Locale] added some more stubs for the number formatter
[Yaml] fixed typo
[Yaml] fixed a test on PHP < 5.4
[DomCrawler]Crawler guess charset from html
fixed PHP 5.3 compatibility
[Yaml] reverted previous merge partially (refs #8897)
[Security] remove unused logger
[Security] fix typo
[Yaml] Fixed filename in the ParseException message
* 2.2:
[Locale] added support for the position argument to NumberFormatter::parse()
[Locale] added some more stubs for the number formatter
[Yaml] fixed typo
[Yaml] fixed a test on PHP < 5.4
[DomCrawler]Crawler guess charset from html
fixed PHP 5.3 compatibility
[Yaml] reverted previous merge partially (refs #8897)
[Security] remove unused logger
[Security] fix typo
[Yaml] Fixed filename in the ParseException message
Conflicts:
src/Symfony/Component/Console/Input/InputDefinition.php
src/Symfony/Component/Locale/Stub/StubNumberFormatter.php
src/Symfony/Component/Locale/Tests/Stub/StubNumberFormatterTest.php
This PR was merged into the 2.2 branch.
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[Locale] added some more stubs for the number formatter
| Q | A
| ------------- | ---
| Bug fix? | yes
| New feature? | no
| BC breaks? | no
| Deprecations? | no
| Tests pass? | yes
| Fixed tickets | #8588, #6045
| License | MIT
| Doc PR | n/a
I've used this snippet of code to populate the default values for the en locale:
```php
for ($style = 0; $style <= 8; $style++) {
$f = new \NumberFormatter('en', $style);
echo 'array(';
for ($i = 0; $i <= 17; $i++) {
echo "'".$f->getSymbol($i)."', ";
}
echo "),\n";
}
```
Commits
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3108c71 [Locale] added support for the position argument to NumberFormatter::parse()
0774c79 [Locale] added some more stubs for the number formatter
This PR was merged into the master branch.
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[ExpressionLanguage] made minor tweaks
| Q | A
| ------------- | ---
| Bug fix? | no
| New feature? | yes
| BC breaks? | no
| Deprecations? | no
| Tests pass? | yes
| Fixed tickets | #9087
| License | MIT
| Doc PR | n/a
* made ExpressionLanguage::parse return an ParsedExpression instance
* optimized the size of the serialization of expressions
Commits
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e869136 [ExpressionLanguage] renamed addFunction() to register()
5076ec7 [ExpressionLanguage] optimized serialization of nodes and expressions
60b9f85 [ExpressionLanguage] made ExpressionLanguage::parse return an ParsedExpression instance
This PR was merged into the master branch.
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use "translator" alias not "translator.default"
Validator is the only instance which references to the "translator.default" service. It should reference to the "translator" service so the validator can use a custom validator if the user overwrites the "translator" alias.
Commits
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9e38819 use "translator" alias not "translator.default"
This PR was squashed before being merged into the 2.2 branch (closes#9074).
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[DomCrawler]Crawler guess charset from html
| Q | A
| ------------- | ---
| Bug fix? | no
| New feature? | yes
| BC breaks? | no
| Deprecations? | no
| Tests pass? | yes
| Fixed tickets | #9061
| License | MIT
| Doc PR | n/a
Commits
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e5282e8 [DomCrawler]Crawler guess charset from html
This PR was merged into the 2.2 branch.
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[Yaml] Fixed filename in the ParseException message
| Q | A
| ------------- | ---
| Bug fix? | sort of
| New feature? | no
| BC breaks? | no
| Deprecations? | no
| Tests pass? | yes
| Fixed tickets | —
| License | MIT
| Doc PR | —
Yaml component throws an exception with corrupt filename because of `json_encode`:
```
[Symfony\Component\Yaml\Exception\ParseException]
A YAML file cannot contain tabs as indentation in "\/var\/www\/app\/config.yml" at line 42 (near " foo: bar").
```
Commits
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da44651 [Yaml] Fixed filename in the ParseException message
This PR was merged into the master branch.
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[HttpKernel] [Fragment] Fixed CS
| Q | A
| ------------- | ---
| Bug fix? | no
| New feature? | no
| BC breaks? | no
| Deprecations? | no
| Tests pass? | yes
| Fixed tickets | -
| License | MIT
| Doc PR | -
Only two simple CS fixes.
Commits
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7d53314 [HttpKernel] Fragment Fixed CS
This PR was merged into the master branch.
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New Component: Expression Language
| Q | A
| ------------- | ---
| Bug fix? | no
| New feature? | yes
| BC breaks? | no
| Deprecations? | no
| Tests pass? | yes
| Fixed tickets | #8850, #7352
| License | MIT
| Doc PR | not yet
TODO:
- [ ] write documentation
- [x] add tests for the new component
- [x] implement expression support for access rules in the security component
- [x] find a better character/convention for expressions in the YAML format
- [x] check the performance of the evaluation mode
- [x] better error messages in the evaluation mode
- [x] add support in the Routing
- [x] add support in the Validator
The ExpressionLanguage component provides an engine that can compile and
evaluate expressions.
An expression is a one-liner that returns a value (mostly, but not limited to, Booleans).
It is a strip-down version of Twig (only the expression part of it is
implemented.) Like Twig, the expression is lexed, parsed, and
compiled/evaluated. So, it is immune to external injections by design.
If we compare it to Twig, here are the main big differences:
* only support for Twig expressions
* no ambiguity for calls (foo.bar is only valid for properties, foo['bar'] is only valid for array calls, and foo.bar() is required for method calls)
* no support for naming conventions in method calls (if the method is named getFoo(), you must use getFoo() and not foo())
* no notion of a line for errors, but a cursor (we are mostly talking about one-liners here)
* removed everything specific to the templating engine (like output escaping or filters)
* no support for named arguments in method calls
* only one extension point with functions (no possibility to define new operators, ...)
* and probably even more I don't remember right now
* there is no need for a runtime environment, the compiled PHP string is self-sufficient
An open question is whether we keep the difference betweens arrays and hashes.
The other big difference with Twig is that it can work in two modes (possible
because of the restrictions described above):
* compilation: the expression is compiled to PHP and is self-sufficient
* evaluation: the expression is evaluated without being compiled to PHP (the node tree produced by the parser can be serialized and evaluated afterwards -- so it can be saved on disk or in a database to speed up things when needed)
Let's see a simple example:
```php
$language = new ExpressionLanguage();
echo $language->evaluate('1 + 1');
// will echo 2
echo $language->compile('1 + 2');
// will echo "(1 + 2)"
```
The language supports:
* all basic math operators (with precedence rules):
* unary: not, !, -, +
* binary: or, ||, and, &&, b-or, b-xor, b-and, ==, ===, !=, !==, <, >, >=, <=, not in, in, .., +, -, ~, *, /, %, **
* all literals supported by Twig: strings, numbers, arrays (`[1, 2]`), hashes
(`{a: "b"}`), Booleans, and null.
* simple variables (`foo`), array accesses (`foo[1]`), property accesses
(`foo.bar`), and method calls (`foo.bar(1, 2)`).
* the ternary operator: `true ? true : false` (and all the shortcuts
implemented in Twig).
* function calls (`constant('FOO')` -- `constant` is the only built-in
functions).
* and of course, any combination of the above.
The compilation is better for performances as the end result is just a plain PHP string without any runtime. For the evaluation, we need to tokenize, parse, and evaluate the nodes on the fly. This can be optimized by using a `ParsedExpression` or a `SerializedParsedExpression` instead:
```php
$nodes = $language->parse($expr, $names);
$expression = new SerializedParsedExpression($expr, serialize($nodes));
// You can now store the expression in a DB for later reuse
// a SerializedParsedExpression can be evaluated like any other expressions,
// but under the hood, the lexer and the parser won't be used at all, so it''s much faster.
$language->evaluate($expression);
```
That's all folks!
I can see many use cases for this new component, and we have two use cases in
Symfony that we can implement right away.
## Using Expressions in the Service Container
The first one is expression support in the service container (it would replace
#8850) -- anywhere you can pass an argument in the service container, you can
use an expression:
```php
$c->register('foo', 'Foo')->addArgument(new Expression('bar.getvalue()'));
```
You have access to the service container via `this`:
container.get("bar").getvalue(container.getParameter("value"))
The implementation comes with two functions that simplifies expressions
(`service()` to get a service, and `parameter` to get a parameter value). The
previous example can be simplified to:
service("bar").getvalue(parameter("value"))
Here is how to use it in XML:
```xml
<parameters>
<parameter key="value">foobar</parameter>
</parameters>
<services>
<service id="foo" class="Foo">
<argument type="expression">service('bar').getvalue(parameter('value'))</argument>
</service>
<service id="bar" class="Bar" />
</services>
```
and in YAML (I chose the syntax randomly ;)):
```yaml
parameters:
value: foobar
services:
bar:
class: Bar
foo:
class: Foo
arguments: [@=service("bar").getvalue(parameter("value"))]
```
When using the container builder, Symfony uses the evaluator, but with the PHP
dumper, the compiler is used, and there is no overhead as the expression
engine is not needed at runtime. The expression above would be compiled to:
```php
$this->get("bar")->getvalue($this->getParameter("value"))
```
## Using Expression for Security Access Control Rules
The second use case in Symfony is for access rules.
As we all know, the way to configure the security access control rules is confusing, which might lead to insecure applications (see http://symfony.com/blog/security-access-control-documentation-issue for more information).
Here is how the new `allow_if` works:
```yaml
access_control:
- { path: ^/_internal/secure, allow_if: "'127.0.0.1' == request.getClientIp() or has_role('ROLE_ADMIN')" }
```
This one restricts the URLs starting with `/_internal/secure` to people browsing from the localhost. Here, `request` is the current Request instance. In the expression, there is access to the following variables:
* `request`
* `token`
* `user`
And to the following functions:
* `is_anonymous`
* `is_authenticated`
* `is_fully_authenticated`
* `is_rememberme`
* `has_role`
You can also use expressions in Twig, which works well with the `is_granted` function:
```jinja
{% if is_granted(expression('has_role("FOO")')) %}
...
{% endif %}
```
## Using Expressions in the Routing
Out of the box, Symfony can only match an incoming request based on some pre-determined variables (like the path info, the method, the scheme, ...). But some people want to be able to match on more complex logic, based on other information of the Request object. That's why we introduced `RequestMatcherInterface` recently (but we no default implementation in Symfony itself).
The first change I've made (not related to expression support) is implement this interface for the default `UrlMatcher`. It was simple enough.
Then, I've added a new `condition` configuration for Route objects, which allow you to add any valid expression. An expression has access to the `request` and to the routing `context`.
Here is how one would configure it in a YAML file:
```yaml
hello:
path: /hello/{name}
condition: "context.getMethod() in ['GET', 'HEAD'] and request.headers.get('User-Agent') =~ '/firefox/i'"
```
Why do I keep the context as all the data are also available in the request? Because you can also use the condition without using the RequestMatcherInterface, in which case, you don't have access to the request. So, the previous example is equivalent to:
```yaml
hello:
path: /hello/{name}
condition: "request.getMethod() in ['GET', 'HEAD'] and request.headers.get('User-Agent') =~ '/firefox/i'"
```
When using the PHP dumper, there is no overhead as the condition is compiled. Here is how it looks like:
```php
// hello
if (0 === strpos($pathinfo, '/hello') && preg_match('#^/hello/(?P<name>[^/]++)$#s', $pathinfo, $matches) && (in_array($context->getMethod(), array(0 => "GET", 1 => "HEAD")) && preg_match("/firefox/i", $request->headers->get("User-Agent")))) {
return $this->mergeDefaults(array_replace($matches, array('_route' => 'hello')), array ());
}
```
Be warned that conditions are not taken into account when generating a URL.
## Using Expressions in the Validator
There is a new Expression constraint that you can put on a class. The expression is then evaluated for validation:
```php
use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;
/**
* @Assert\Condition(condition="this.getFoo() == 'fo'", message="Not good!")
*/
class Obj
{
public function getFoo()
{
return 'foo';
}
}
```
In the expression, you get access to the current object via the `this` variable.
## Dynamic annotations
The expression language component is also very useful in annotations. the SensoLabs FrameworkExtraBundle leverages this possibility to implement HTTP validation caching in the `@Cache` annotation and to add a new `@Security` annotation (see sensiolabs/SensioFrameworkExtraBundle#238.)
Commits
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d4ebbfd [Validator] Renamed Condition to Expression and added possibility to set it onto properties
a3b3a78 [Validator] added a constraint that runs an expression
1bcfb40 added optimized versions of expressions
984bd38 mades things more consistent for the end user
d477f15 [Routing] added support for expression conditions in routes
86ac8d7 [ExpressionLanguage] improved performance
e369d14 added a Twig extension to create Expression instances
38b7fde added support for expression in control access rules
2777ac7 [HttpFoundation] added ExpressionRequestMatcher
c25abd9 [DependencyInjection] added support for expressions in the service container
3a41781 [ExpressionLanguage] added support for regexes
9d98fa2 [ExpressionLanguage] added the component
Fabien Potencier
Jakub Zalas
tweini
Adrien Brault
Tobias Schultze
Joseph Bielawski
Thomas Adam
Piotr Antosik
bronze1man
Bernhard Schussek