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Bop

• Bop is a very fast Boyer-Moore parser for string or buffer patterns.
• It is optimized for using with pattern strings/buffers <= 255 bytes.
• It is ideal, for example, to parse streams like multipart/form-data ones, in which pattern/boundary length < ~70 bytes).

Main features

Given a m-length pattern and n-length data, and σ-length alphabet ( σ = 256 ):

• it performs the comparisons from right to left.
• preprocessing phase in O(m+σ) time and space complexity.
• searching phase in O(m*n) time complexity.
• 3*n text character comparisons in the worst case when searching for a non periodic pattern.
• O(n/m) best performance.

See Lecroq for reference and also Qap, a QuickSearch parser.

Install

$ npm install bop [-g]

require:

var Bop = require( 'bop' );

Run Tests

$cd bop/
$npm test

to execute a single test file simply do:

 $ node test/file-name.js

Run Benchmarks

$ cd bop/
$ npm run bench

Constructor

Create an instance, using a pattern.

Bop( Buffer pattern | String pattern )
// or
new Bop( Buffer pattern | String pattern )

Methods

Arguments within [] are optional.

// Change the pattern to search.
Bop#set( Buffer pattern | String pattern ) : Buffer

/*
 * Count matches, optionally starting from a particular index (default
 * is 0). It returns an Array containing the number of matches, and the
 * remaining bytes
 */
Bop#count( Buffer data [, Number start_from ] ) : Array

// Same as #count, but without counting overlapping sequences
Bop#scount( Buffer data [, Number start_from ] ) : Array

/*
 * Count matches, and the max distance found between 2 matches,
 * optionally starting from a particular index (default is 0).
 * It returns an Array containing:
 * - the number of matches
 * - the max distance found between 2 matches, -1 otherwise
 * - the distance from data index 0 to the first match, -1 otherwise
 * - the distance from the end of the last match to the end of data,
 *   -1 otherwise
 * 
 * NOTE: if 0 or only 1 occurrence was found, the max distance will
 * be -1 and then the resulting array will be respectvely:
 * - [0, -1, -1, -1 ]
 * - [1, -1, .., .. ]
 */
Bop#dist( Buffer data [, Number start_from ] ) : Array

// same as #dist, but without counting overlapping sequences
Bop#sdist( Buffer data [, Number start_from ] ) : Array

/*
 * Collect all indexes of pattern occurrences.
 *
 * As options you can:
 *
 * - start parsing from a particular index
 * - limit the number of results to parse
 * - fill your array with resulting indexes.
 *
 * NOTE: use Buffers when possible (faster).
 *
 */
Bop#parse( Buffer data | String data [, Number start_from [, Number limit_results [, Array my_array ] ] ] ) : Array

/*
 * Strict parse, it's the same as parse, without collecting
 * any overlapping sequences.
 *
 * Example with CRLF sequence:
 *
 * - bop pattern is set to: "\r\n\r\n"                 (CR LF CR LF)
 * - data to parse is:      "\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n" (CR LF CR LF CR LF CR LF )
 * 
 * - with Bop.parse( data ) we get 3 indexes as results: [0, 2, 4]
 *
 *       0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7
 *      -----------------------
 *   p: CR LF CR LF
 *   d: CR LF CR LF CR LF CR LF
 *
 *   p: ----> CR LF CR LF
 *   d: CR LF CR LF CR LF CR LF
 *
 *   p: ----------> CR LF CR LF
 *   d: CR LF CR LF CR LF CR LF
 *
 * - with Bop.sparse( data ) we get only 2 results: [0, 4]
 *
 *       0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7
 *      -----------------------
 *   p: CR LF CR LF
 *   d: CR LF CR LF CR LF CR LF
 *
 *   p: ----------> CR LF CR LF
 *   d: CR LF CR LF CR LF CR LF
 *
 */
Bop#sparse( Buffer data | String data [, Number start_from [, Number limit_results [, Array my_array ] ] ] ) : Array

Usage Example

var Bop = require( 'bop' )
    , pattern = 'hellofolks\r\n'
    , somedata = 'hehehe' + pattern +'eheheh' + pattern
    , bop = Bop( pattern )
    // parse data from beginning
    , results = bop.parse( somedata )
    ;

See examples.

Benchmark for a short pattern ( length <= 255 bytes )

Parser uses 3 Buffers 256-bytes long to build shifting tables, then:

• Pattern parsing / table creation space and time complexity is O(σ).
• Very low memory footprint.
• Ultra fast to preprocess pattern ( = tables creation ).

  $ node bench/small-pattern-data-rate

for default it:

• uses a pattern string of 57 bytes/chars.
• builds a data buffer of 700 MB in memory.
• uses a redundancy/distance factor for pattern strings equal to 2. The bigger the value, the lesser are occurrences of pattern string into the text buffer.

Custom Usage:

  # with [testBufferSizeInMB] [distanceFactor] [aStringPattern]
  $ node bench/small-pattern-data-rate.js 700 4 "that'sallfolks"

Benchmark for a big pattern ( length > 255 bytes )

Parser uses 3 arrays to build shifting tables for big patterns, then:

• there will be an high memory consumption, due to the use of arrays.
• it will take a long time to preprocess pattern ( = tables creation ).

  $ node bench/big-pattern-data-rate

• it uses a very big pattern ( 20 MBytes ).
• it builds a data buffer of 300 MBytes, copying the same pattern 12 times.

See bench dir.

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2013-present < Guglielmo Ferri : 44gatti@gmail.com >

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