Search for all function calls in a Lua file using Python

Question

I want to search for all function calls in a Lua file using python. for example, I have this Lua code:

function displayText (text)
    print(text)
end

sendGreetings = function(sender, reciever) 
    print("Hi " ..reciever.. " greetings from " ..sender.. "!")
end

displayText("Hello, World!")

sendGreetings("Roger", "Michael")

I want my python code to search for function calls in that code and returns a dictionary with the function name and parameters, so the output should be like this:

# {function_name: [param1, param2]}
{"displayText": ["Hello, World!"], "sendGreetings": ["Roger", "Michael"]}

I tried to implement it by using regex but I had all sorts of problems, and inaccurate results. Also, I don't believe there is a Lua parser for Python.

Answer 1

You can use luaparser (pip install luaparser) with recursion to traverse the ast:

import luaparser
from luaparser import ast
class FunCalls:
   def __init__(self):
      self.f_defs, self.f_calls = [], []
   def lua_eval(self, tree):
      #attempts to produce a value for a function parameter. If value is a string or an integer, returns the corresponding Python object. If not, returns a string with the lua code
      if isinstance(tree, (luaparser.astnodes.Number, luaparser.astnodes.String)):
         return tree.n if hasattr(tree, 'n') else tree.s
      return ast.to_lua_source(tree)
   def walk(self, tree):
      to_walk = None
      if isinstance(tree, luaparser.astnodes.Function):
         self.f_defs.append((tree.name.id, [i.id for i in tree.args]))
         to_walk = tree.body
      elif isinstance(tree, luaparser.astnodes.Call):
         self.f_calls.append((tree.func.id, [self.lua_eval(i) for i in tree.args]))
      elif isinstance(tree, luaparser.astnodes.Assign):
         if isinstance(tree.values[0], luaparser.astnodes.AnonymousFunction):
            self.f_defs.append((tree.targets[0].id, [i.id for i in tree.values[0].args]))
      if to_walk is not None:
         for i in ([to_walk] if not isinstance(to_walk, list) else to_walk):
             self.walk(i)
      else:
         for a, b in getattr(tree, '__dict__', {}).items():
            if isinstance(b, list) or 'luaparser.astnodes' in str(b):
               for i in ([b] if not isinstance(b, list) else b):
                   self.walk(i)

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Putting it all together:

s = """
function displayText (text)
   print(text)
end

sendGreetings = function(sender, reciever) 
   print("Hi " ..reciever.. " greetings from " ..sender.. "!")
end

displayText("Hello, World!")

sendGreetings("Roger", "Michael")
"""
tree = ast.parse(s)
f = FunCalls()
f.walk(tree)
print(dict(f.f_defs)) #the function definitions with signatures
calls = {a:b for a, b in f.f_calls if any(j == a for j, _ in f.f_defs)}    
print(calls)

Output:

{'displayText': ['text'], 'sendGreetings': ['sender', 'reciever']}
{'displayText': ['Hello, World!'], 'sendGreetings': ['Roger', 'Michael']}