MEDIUM: filters/lua: Add support for dummy filters written in lua
It is now possible to write dummy filters in lua. Only the basis to declare
such filters has been added for now. There is no way to declare callbacks to
filter anything. Lua filters are for now empty nutshells.
To do so, core.register_filter() must be called, with 3 arguments, the
filter's name (as it appears in HAProxy config), the lua class that will be
used to instantiate filters and a function to parse arguments passed on the
filter line in HAProxy configuration file. The lua filter class must at
least define the method new(), without any extra args, to create new
instances when streams are created. If this method is not found, the filter
will be ignored.
Here is a template to declare a new Lua filter:
// haproxy.conf
global
lua-load /path/to/my-filter.lua
...
frontend fe
...
filter lua.my-lua-filter arg1 arg2 arg3
filter lua.my-lua-filter arg4 arg5
// my-filter.lua
MyFilter = {}
MyFilter.id = "My Lua filter" -- the filter ID (optional)
MyFilter.flags = filter.FLT_CFG_FL_HTX -- process HTX streams (optional)
MyFilter.__index = MyFilter
function MyFilter:new()
flt = {}
setmetatable(flt, MyFilter)
-- Set any flt fields. self.args can be used
flt.args = self.args
return flt -- The new instance of Myfilter
end
core.register_filter("my-lua-filter", MyFilter, function(filter, args)
-- process <args>, an array of strings. For instance:
filter.args = args
return filter
end)
In this example, 2 filters are declared using the same lua class. The
parsing function is called for both, with its own copy of the lua class. So
each filter will be unique.
The global object "filter" exposes some constants and flags, and later some
functions, to help writting filters in lua.
Internally, when a lua filter is instantiated (so when new() method is
called), 2 lua contexts are created, one for the request channel and another
for the response channel. It is a prerequisite to let some callbacks yield
on one side independently on the other one.
There is no documentation for now.
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