isc::util::str::StringSanitizer Class Reference

Implements a regular expression based string scrubber. More...

#include <str.h>

Public Member Functions
	StringSanitizer (const std::string &char_set, const std::string &char_replacement)
	Constructor.
std::string	scrub (const std::string &original)
	Returns a scrubbed copy of a given string.

Static Public Attributes
static const uint32_t	MAX_DATA_SIZE = 4096
	The maximum size for regex parameters.

Detailed Description

Implements a regular expression based string scrubber.

Definition at line 222 of file str.h.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

StringSanitizer()

isc::util::str::StringSanitizer::StringSanitizer	(	const std::string &	char_set,
		const std::string &	char_replacement
	)

Constructor.

Compiles the given character set into a regular expression, and retains the given character replacement. Thereafter, the instance may be used to scrub an arbitrary number of strings.

Parameters

char_set	string containing a regular expression (POSIX extended syntax) that describes the characters to replace. If you wanted to sanitize hostnames for example, you could specify the inversion of valid characters "[^A-Za-z0-9_-]".
char_replacement	string of one or more characters to use as the replacement for invalid characters.

Exceptions

BadValue

if given an invalid regular expression.

Definition at line 300 of file str.cc.

Member Function Documentation

scrub()

string isc::util::str::StringSanitizer::scrub

(

const std::string &

original

)

Returns a scrubbed copy of a given string.

Replaces all occurrences of characters described by the regular expression with the character replacement.

Parameters

original

The string to be scrubbed.

Exceptions

Unexpected

if an error occurs during scrubbing.

Definition at line 305 of file str.cc.

Member Data Documentation

MAX_DATA_SIZE

const uint32_t isc::util::str::StringSanitizer::MAX_DATA_SIZE = 4096

static

The maximum size for regex parameters.

Note

The regex engine is implemented using recursion and can cause stack overflow if the input data is too large. An arbitrary size of 4096 should be enough for all cases.

Definition at line 255 of file str.h.

Referenced by isc::util::str::StringSanitizerImpl::StringSanitizerImpl().

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:

• str.h
• str.cc