Class: Webby::LinkValidator

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
show all
Defined in:
lib/webby/link_validator.rb

Overview

The Webby LinkValidator class is used to validate the hyperlinks of all the HTML files in the output directory. By default, only links to other pages in the output directory are checked. However, setting the :external flag to true will cause hyperlinks to external web sites to be validated as well.

Instance Attribute Summary collapse

Class Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Summary collapse

Constructor Details

#initialize(opts = {}) ⇒ LinkValidator

call-seq:

LinkValidator.new( opts = {} )

Creates a new LinkValidator object. The only supported option is the :external flag. When set to true, the link validator will also check out links to external websites. This is done by opening a connection to the remote site and pulling down the page specified in the hyperlink. Use with caution.



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# File 'lib/webby/link_validator.rb', line 32

def initialize( opts = {} )
  @log = Logging::Logger[self]

  glob = ::File.join(::Webby.site.output_dir, '**', '*.html')
  @files = Dir.glob(glob).sort
  @attr_rgxp = %r/\[@(\w+)\]$/o

  @validate_externals = opts.getopt(:external, false)
  @valid_uris = ::Webby.site.valid_uris.flatten
  @invalid_uris = []
end

Instance Attribute Details

#validate_externalsObject

Returns the value of attribute validate_externals.



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# File 'lib/webby/link_validator.rb', line 21

def validate_externals
  @validate_externals
end

Class Method Details

.validate(opts = {}) ⇒ Object

A lazy man’s method that will instantiate a new link validator and run the validations.



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# File 'lib/webby/link_validator.rb', line 17

def self.validate( opts = {} )
  new(opts).validate
end

Instance Method Details

#check_file(fn) ⇒ Object

Check the given file (identified by its filename for short here) by iterating through all the configured xpaths and validating that those hyperlinks ae valid.



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# File 'lib/webby/link_validator.rb', line 55

def check_file( fn )
  @log.info "validating #{fn}"

  dir = ::File.dirname(fn)
  doc = Hpricot(::File.read(fn))

  ::Webby.site.xpaths.each do |xpath|
    @attr_name = nil

    doc.search(xpath).each do |element|
      attr_name ||= @attr_rgxp.match(xpath)[1]
      uri = URI.parse(element.get_attribute(attr_name))
      validate_uri(uri, dir, doc)
    end
  end
  return nil # side effect of original implementation
end

#validateObject

Iterate over all the HTML files in the output directory and validate the hyperlinks.



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# File 'lib/webby/link_validator.rb', line 47

def validate
  @files.each {|fn| check_file fn}
end

#validate_anchor(uri, doc) ⇒ Object

Validate that the anchor fragment of the URI exists in the given document. The document is an Hpricot document object.

Returns true if the anchor exists in the document and false if it does not.



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# File 'lib/webby/link_validator.rb', line 100

def validate_anchor( uri, doc )
  return false if uri.fragment.nil?

  anchor = '#' + uri.fragment
  if doc.at(anchor).nil?
    @log.error "invalid URI '#{uri.to_s}'"
    false
  else true end
end

#validate_external_uri(uri, dir, doc) ⇒ Object

Validate that an external URI can be opened



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# File 'lib/webby/link_validator.rb', line 140

def validate_external_uri( uri, dir, doc )
  return unless @validate_externals

  if @invalid_uris.include? uri.to_s
    @log.error "could not open URI '#{uri.to_s}'"
    return
  end

  begin
    uri.open {|_| nil}
    @valid_uris << uri.to_s
  rescue Exception
    @log.error "could not open URI '#{uri.to_s}'"
    @invalid_uris << uri.to_s
  end 
end

#validate_relative_uri(uri, dir, doc) ⇒ Object

Validate that the file pointed to by the relative URI exists in the output directory. If the URI has an anchor, validate that the anchor exists as well.



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# File 'lib/webby/link_validator.rb', line 114

def validate_relative_uri( uri, dir, doc )
  return validate_anchor(uri, doc) if uri.path.empty?

  path = if uri.path =~ %r/^\//
      ::File.join(::Webby.site.output_dir, uri.path)
    else
      ::File.join(dir, uri.path)
    end
  path = ::File.join(path, 'index.html') if ::File.extname(path).empty?

  uri_str = path.dup
  (uri_str << '#' << uri.fragment) if uri.fragment
  return if @valid_uris.include? uri_str

  if test ?f, path
    valid = if uri.fragment
        validate_anchor(uri, Hpricot(::File.read(path)))
      else true end
    @valid_uris << uri_str if valid
  else
    @log.error "invalid URI '#{uri.to_s}'"
  end
end

#validate_uri(uri, dir, doc) ⇒ Object

Validate the the page the uri refers to actually exists. The directory of the current page being processed is needed in order to resolve relative paths.

If the uri is a relative path, then the output directory is searched for the appropriate page. If the uri is an absolute path, then the remote server is contacted and the page requested from the server. This will only take place if the LinkValidator was created with the :external flag set to true.



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# File 'lib/webby/link_validator.rb', line 83

def validate_uri( uri, dir, doc )
  # do not retry external uris that have already been validated
  return if @valid_uris.include? uri.to_s

  return validate_relative_uri(uri, dir, doc) if uri.relative?
  return validate_external_uri(uri, dir, doc) if uri.respond_to? :open

  # otherwise, post a warning that the URI could not be validated
  @log.warn "could not validate URI '#{uri.to_s}'"
end