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# IVLE - Informatics Virtual Learning Environment
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# Copyright (C) 2007-2009 The University of Melbourne
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# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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# (at your option) any later version.
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# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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# GNU General Public License for more details.
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# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
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# Author: Matt Giuca, Tom Conway, Will Grant
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'''Python console RPC service.
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Provides an HTTP RPC interface to a Python console process.
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from ivle.webapp.base.rest import JSONRESTView, named_operation
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from ivle.webapp.errors import BadRequest
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# XXX: Should be RPC view, with actions in URL?
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class ConsoleServiceRESTView(JSONRESTView):
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'''An RPC interface to a Python console.'''
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def get_permissions(self, user):
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@named_operation('use')
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def start(self, req, cwd=''):
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working_dir = os.path.join("/home", req.user.login, cwd)
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jail_path = os.path.join(ivle.conf.jail_base, req.user.login)
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cons = ivle.console.Console(uid, jail_path, working_dir)
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# Assemble the key and return it. Yes, it is double-encoded.
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return {'key': cjson.encode({"host": cons.host,
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"magic": cons.magic}).encode('hex')}
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@named_operation('use')
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def chat(self, req, key, text='', kind="chat"):
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# The request *should* have the following four fields:
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# key: Hex JSON dict of host and port where the console server lives,
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# and the secret to use to digitally sign the communication with the
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# text: Fields to pass along to the console server
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# It simply acts as a proxy to the console server
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keydict = cjson.decode(key.decode('hex'))
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host = keydict['host']
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port = keydict['port']
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magic = keydict['magic']
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raise BadRequest("Invalid console key.")
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jail_path = os.path.join(ivle.conf.jail_base, req.user.login)
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working_dir = os.path.join("/home", req.user.login) # Within jail
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msg = {'cmd':kind, 'text':text}
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json_response = ivle.chat.chat(host, port, msg, magic,decode=False)
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# Snoop the response from python-console to check that it's valid
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response = cjson.decode(json_response)
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except cjson.DecodeError:
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# Could not decode the reply from the python-console server
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response = {"terminate":
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"Communication to console process lost"}
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if "terminate" in response:
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response = restart_console(uid, jail_path, working_dir,
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response["terminate"])
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except socket.error, (enumber, estring):
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if enumber == errno.ECONNREFUSED:
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# Timeout: Restart the session
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response = restart_console(uid, jail_path, working_dir,
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"The IVLE console has timed out due to inactivity")
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elif enumber == errno.ECONNRESET:
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# Communication issue: Restart the session
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response = restart_console(uid, jail_path, working_dir,
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"Connection with the console has been reset")
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# Some other error - probably serious
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raise socket.error, (enumber, estring)
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def restart_console(uid, jail_path, working_dir, reason):
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"""Tells the client that it must be issued a new console since the old
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console is no longer availible. The client must accept the new key.
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Returns the JSON response to be given to the client.
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# Start a new console server console
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cons = ivle.console.Console(uid, jail_path, working_dir)
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# Make a JSON object to tell the browser to restart its console client
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new_key = cjson.encode(
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{"host": cons.host, "port": cons.port, "magic": cons.magic})
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return {"restart": reason, "key": new_key.encode("hex")}