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+<?php
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ *
+ * @package log4php
+ */
+
+/**
+ * A convenience class to convert property values to specific types.
+ *
+ * @version $Revision: 1374617 $
+ * @package log4php
+ * @subpackage helpers
+ * @since 0.5
+ */
+class LoggerOptionConverter {
+
+ /** String values which are converted to boolean TRUE. */
+ private static $trueValues = array('1', 'true', 'yes', 'on');
+
+ /**
+ * String values which are converted to boolean FALSE.
+ *
+ * Note that an empty string must convert to false, because
+ * parse_ini_file() which is used for parsing configuration
+ * converts the value _false_ to an empty string.
+ */
+ private static $falseValues = array('0', 'false', 'no', 'off', '');
+
+ /**
+ * Read a predefined var.
+ *
+ * It returns a value referenced by <var>$key</var> using this search criteria:
+ * - if <var>$key</var> is a constant then return it. Else
+ * - if <var>$key</var> is set in <var>$_ENV</var> then return it. Else
+ * - return <var>$def</var>.
+ *
+ * @param string $key The key to search for.
+ * @param string $def The default value to return.
+ * @return string the string value of the system property, or the default
+ * value if there is no property with that key.
+ */
+ public static function getSystemProperty($key, $def) {
+ if (defined($key)) {
+ return (string)constant($key);
+ } else if (isset($_SERVER[$key])) {
+ return (string)$_SERVER[$key];
+ } else if (isset($_ENV[$key])) {
+ return (string)$_ENV[$key];
+ } else {
+ return $def;
+ }
+ }
+
+ /** Converts $value to boolean, or throws an exception if not possible. */
+ public static function toBooleanEx($value) {
+ if (isset($value)) {
+ if (is_bool($value)) {
+ return $value;
+ }
+ $value = strtolower(trim($value));
+ if (in_array($value, self::$trueValues)) {
+ return true;
+ }
+ if (in_array($value, self::$falseValues)) {
+ return false;
+ }
+ }
+
+ throw new LoggerException("Given value [" . var_export($value, true) . "] cannot be converted to boolean.");
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Converts $value to integer, or throws an exception if not possible.
+ * Floats cannot be converted to integer.
+ */
+ public static function toIntegerEx($value) {
+ if (is_integer($value)) {
+ return $value;
+ }
+ if (is_numeric($value) && ($value == (integer)$value)) {
+ return (integer)$value;
+ }
+
+ throw new LoggerException("Given value [" . var_export($value, true) . "] cannot be converted to integer.");
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Converts $value to integer, or throws an exception if not possible.
+ * Floats cannot be converted to integer.
+ */
+ public static function toPositiveIntegerEx($value) {
+ if (is_integer($value) && $value > 0) {
+ return $value;
+ }
+ if (is_numeric($value) && ($value == (integer)$value) && $value > 0) {
+ return (integer)$value;
+ }
+
+ throw new LoggerException("Given value [" . var_export($value, true) . "] cannot be converted to a positive integer.");
+ }
+
+ /** Converts the value to a level. Throws an exception if not possible. */
+ public static function toLevelEx($value) {
+ if ($value instanceof LoggerLevel) {
+ return $value;
+ }
+ $level = LoggerLevel::toLevel($value);
+ if ($level === null) {
+ throw new LoggerException("Given value [" . var_export($value, true) . "] cannot be converted to a logger level.");
+ }
+ return $level;
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Converts a value to a valid file size (integer).
+ *
+ * Supports 'KB', 'MB' and 'GB' suffixes, where KB = 1024 B etc.
+ *
+ * The final value will be rounded to the nearest integer.
+ *
+ * Examples:
+ * - '100' => 100
+ * - '100.12' => 100
+ * - '100KB' => 102400
+ * - '1.5MB' => 1572864
+ *
+ * @param mixed $value File size (optionally with suffix).
+ * @return integer Parsed file size.
+ */
+ public static function toFileSizeEx($value) {
+
+ if (empty($value)) {
+ throw new LoggerException("Empty value cannot be converted to a file size.");
+ }
+
+ if (is_numeric($value)) {
+ return (integer)$value;
+ }
+
+ if (!is_string($value)) {
+ throw new LoggerException("Given value [" . var_export($value, true) . "] cannot be converted to a file size.");
+ }
+
+ $str = strtoupper(trim($value));
+ $count = preg_match('/^([0-9.]+)(KB|MB|GB)?$/', $str, $matches);
+
+ if ($count > 0) {
+ $size = $matches[1];
+ $unit = $matches[2];
+
+ switch ($unit) {
+ case 'KB':
+ $size *= pow(1024, 1);
+ break;
+ case 'MB':
+ $size *= pow(1024, 2);
+ break;
+ case 'GB':
+ $size *= pow(1024, 3);
+ break;
+ }
+
+ return (integer)$size;
+ }
+
+ throw new LoggerException("Given value [$value] cannot be converted to a file size.");
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Converts a value to string, or throws an exception if not possible.
+ *
+ * Objects can be converted to string if they implement the magic
+ * __toString() method.
+ *
+ */
+ public static function toStringEx($value) {
+ if (is_string($value)) {
+ return $value;
+ }
+ if (is_numeric($value)) {
+ return (string)$value;
+ }
+ if (is_object($value) && method_exists($value, '__toString')) {
+ return (string)$value;
+ }
+
+ throw new LoggerException("Given value [" . var_export($value, true) . "] cannot be converted to string.");
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Performs value substitution for string options.
+ *
+ * An option can contain PHP constants delimited by '${' and '}'.
+ *
+ * E.g. for input string "some ${FOO} value", the method will attempt
+ * to substitute ${FOO} with the value of constant FOO if it exists.
+ *
+ * Therefore, if FOO is a constant, and it has value "bar", the resulting
+ * string will be "some bar value".
+ *
+ * If the constant is not defined, it will be replaced by an empty string,
+ * and the resulting string will be "some value".
+ *
+ * @param string $string String on which to perform substitution.
+ * @return string
+ */
+ public static function substConstants($string) {
+ preg_match_all('/\${([^}]+)}/', $string, $matches);
+
+ foreach ($matches[1] as $key => $match) {
+ $match = trim($match);
+ $search = $matches[0][$key];
+ $replacement = defined($match) ? constant($match) : '';
+ $string = str_replace($search, $replacement, $string);
+ }
+ return $string;
+ }
+}