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# Copyright (c) 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
#
#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
#
# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
# limitations under the License.

"""Data pre-processing

- extract data from output.xml files generated by Jenkins jobs and store in
  pandas' Series,
- provide access to the data.
"""

import re
import pandas as pd
import logging

from robot.api import ExecutionResult, ResultVisitor
from collections import OrderedDict
from string import replace


class ExecutionChecker(ResultVisitor):
    """Class to traverse through the test suite structure.

    The functionality implemented in this class generates a json structure:

    Performance tests:

    {
        "metadata": {  # Optional
            "version": "VPP version",
            "job": "Jenkins job name",
            "build": "Information about the build"
        },
        "suites": {
            "Suite name 1": {
                "doc": "Suite 1 documentation",
                "parent": "Suite 1 parent",
                "level": "Level of the suite in the suite hierarchy"
            }
            "Suite name N": {
                "doc": "Suite N documentation",
                "parent": "Suite 2 parent",
                "level": "Level of the suite in the suite hierarchy"
            }
        }
        "tests": {
            "ID": {
                "name": "Test name",
                "parent": "Name of the parent of the test",
                "doc": "Test documentation"
                "msg": "Test message"
                "tags": ["tag 1", "tag 2", "tag n"],
                "type": "PDR" | "NDR",
                "throughput": {
                    "value": int,
                    "unit": "pps" | "bps" | "percentage"
                },
                "latency": {
                    "direction1": {
                        "100": {
                            "min": int,
                            "avg": int,
                            "max": int
                        },
                        "50": {  # Only for NDR
                            "min": int,
                            "avg": int,
                            "max": int
                        },
                        "10": {  # Only for NDR
                            "min": int,
                            "avg": int,
                            "max": int
                        }
                    },
                    "direction2": {
                        "100": {
                            "min": int,
                            "avg": int,
                            "max": int
                        },
                        "50": {  # Only for NDR
                            "min": int,
                            "avg": int,
                            "max": int
                        },
                        "10": {  # Only for NDR
                            "min": int,
                            "avg": int,
                            "max": int
                        }
                    }
                },
                "lossTolerance": "lossTolerance",  # Only for PDR
                "vat-history": "DUT1 and DUT2 VAT History"
                },
                "show-run": "Show Run"
            },
            "ID" {
                # next test
            }
        }
    }

    Functional tests:


    {
        "metadata": {  # Optional
            "version": "VPP version",
            "job": "Jenkins job name",
            "build": "Information about the build"
        },
        "suites": {
            "Suite name 1": {
                "doc": "Suite 1 documentation",
                "parent": "Suite 1 parent",
                "level": "Level of the suite in the suite hierarchy"
            }
            "Suite name N": {
                "doc": "Suite N documentation",
                "parent": "Suite 2 parent",
                "level": "Level of the suite in the suite hierarchy"
            }
        }
        "tests": {
            "ID": {
                "name": "Test name",
                "parent": "Name of the parent of the test",
                "doc": "Test documentation"
                "msg": "Test message"
                "tags": ["tag 1", "tag 2", "tag n"],
                "vat-history": "DUT1 and DUT2 VAT History"
                "show-run": "Show Run"
                "status": "PASS" | "FAIL"
            },
            "ID" {
                # next test
            }
        }
    }

    .. note:: ID is the lowercase full path to the test.
    """

    REGEX_RATE = re.compile(r'^[\D\d]*FINAL_RATE:\s(\d+\.\d+)\s(\w+)')

    REGEX_LAT_NDR = re.compile(r'^[\D\d]*'
                               r'LAT_\d+%NDR:\s\[\'(-?\d+\/-?\d+/-?\d+)\','
                               r'\s\'(-?\d+/-?\d+/-?\d+)\'\]\s\n'
                               r'LAT_\d+%NDR:\s\[\'(-?\d+/-?\d+/-?\d+)\','
                               r'\s\'(-?\d+/-?\d+/-?\d+)\'\]\s\n'
                               r'LAT_\d+%NDR:\s\[\'(-?\d+/-?\d+/-?\d+)\','
                               r'\s\'(-?\d+/-?\d+/-?\d+)\'\]')

    REGEX_LAT_PDR = re.compile(r'^[\D\d]*'
                               r'LAT_\d+%PDR:\s\[\'(-?\d+/-?\d+/-?\d+)\','
                               r'\s\'(-?\d+/-?\d+/-?\d+)\'\][\D\d]*')

    REGEX_TOLERANCE = re.compile(r'^[\D\d]*LOSS_ACCEPTANCE:\s(\d*\.\d*)\s'
                                 r'[\D\d]*')

    REGEX_VERSION = re.compile(r"(stdout: 'vat# vat# Version:)(\s*)(.*)")

    def __init__(self, **metadata):
        """Initialisation.

        :param metadata: Key-value pairs to be included in "metadata" part of
        JSON structure.
        :type metadata: dict
        """

        # Type of message to parse out from the test messages
        self._msg_type = None

        # VPP version
        self._version = None

        # Number of VAT History messages found:
        # 0 - no message
        # 1 - VAT History of DUT1
        # 2 - VAT History of DUT2
        self._lookup_kw_nr = 0
        self._vat_history_lookup_nr = 0

        # Number of Show Running messages found
        # 0 - no message
        # 1 - Show run message found
        self._show_run_lookup_nr = 0

        # Test ID of currently processed test- the lowercase full path to the
        # test
        self._test_ID = None

        # The main data structure
        self._data = {
            "metadata": OrderedDict(),
            "suites": OrderedDict(),
            "tests": OrderedDict()
        }

        # Save the provided metadata
        for key, val in metadata.items():
            self._data["metadata"][key] = val

        # Dictionary defining the methods used to parse different types of
        # messages
        self.parse_msg = {
            "setup-version": self._get_version,
            "teardown-vat-history": self._get_vat_history,
            "teardown-show-runtime": self._get_show_run
        }

    @property
    def data(self):
        """Getter - Data parsed from the XML file.

        :returns: Data parsed from the XML file.
        :rtype: dict
        """
        return self._data

    def _get_version(self, msg):
        """Called when extraction of VPP version is required.

        :param msg: Message to process.
        :type msg: Message
        :returns: Nothing.
        """

        if msg.message.count("stdout: 'vat# vat# Version:"):
            self._version = str(re.search(self.REGEX_VERSION, msg.message).
                                group(3))
            self._data["metadata"]["version"] = self._version
            self._msg_type = None

            logging.debug("    VPP version: {0}".format(self._version))

    def _get_vat_history(self, msg):
        """Called when extraction of VAT command history is required.

        :param msg: Message to process.
        :type msg: Message
        :returns: Nothing.
        """
        if msg.message.count("VAT command history:"):
            self._vat_history_lookup_nr += 1
            if self._vat_history_lookup_nr == 1:
                self._data["tests"][self._test_ID]["vat-history"] = str()
            else:
                self._msg_type = None
            text = re.sub("[0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3} "
                          "VAT command history:", "", msg.message, count=1). \
                replace("\n\n", "\n").replace('\n', ' |br| ').\
                replace('\r', '').replace('"', "'")

            self._data["tests"][self._test_ID]["vat-history"] += " |br| "
            self._data["tests"][self._test_ID]["vat-history"] += \
                "**DUT" + str(self._vat_history_lookup_nr) + ":** " + text

    def _get_show_run(self, msg):
        """Called when extraction of VPP operational data (output of CLI command
        Show Runtime) is required.

        :param msg: Message to process.
        :type msg: Message
        :returns: Nothing.
        """
        if msg.message.count("return STDOUT Thread "):
            self._show_run_lookup_nr += 1
            if self._lookup_kw_nr == 1 and self._show_run_lookup_nr == 1:
                self._data["tests"][self._test_ID]["show-run"] = str()
            if self._lookup_kw_nr > 1:
                self._msg_type = None
            if self._show_run_lookup_nr == 1:
                text = msg.message.replace("vat# ", "").\
                    replace("return STDOUT ", "").replace("\n\n", "\n").\
                    replace('\n', ' |br| ').\
                    replace('\r', '').replace('"', "'")
                try:
                    self._data["tests"][self._test_ID]["show-run"] += " |br| "
                    self._data["tests"][self._test_ID]["show-run"] += \
                        "**DUT" + str(self._lookup_kw_nr) + ":** |br| " + text
                except KeyError:
                    pass

    def _get_latency(self, msg, test_type):
        """Get the latency data from the test message.

        :param msg: Message to be parsed.
        :param test_type: Type of the test - NDR or PDR.
        :type msg: str
        :type test_type: str
        :returns: Latencies parsed from the message.
        :rtype: dict
        """

        if test_type == "NDR":
            groups = re.search(self.REGEX_LAT_NDR, msg)
            groups_range = range(1, 7)
        elif test_type == "PDR":
            groups = re.search(self.REGEX_LAT_PDR, msg)
            groups_range = range(1, 3)
        else:
            return {}

        latencies = list()
        for idx in groups_range:
            try:
                lat = [int(item) for item in str(groups.group(idx)).split('/')]
            except (AttributeError, ValueError):
                lat = [-1, -1, -1]
            latencies.append(lat)

        keys = ("min", "avg", "max")
        latency = {
            "direction1": {
            },
            "direction2": {
            }
        }

        latency["direction1"]["100"] = dict(zip(keys, latencies[0]))
        latency["direction2"]["100"] = dict(zip(keys, latencies[1]))
        if test_type == "NDR":
            latency["direction1"]["50"] = dict(zip(keys, latencies[2]))
            latency["direction2"]["50"] = dict(zip(keys, latencies[3]))
            latency["direction1"]["10"] = dict(zip(keys, latencies[4]))
            latency["direction2"]["10"] = dict(zip(keys, latencies[5]))

        return latency

    def visit_suite(self, suite):
        """Implements traversing through the suite and its direct children.

        :param suite: Suite to process.
        :type suite: Suite
        :returns: Nothing.
        """
        if self.start_suite(suite) is not False:
            suite.suites.visit(self)
            suite.tests.visit(self)
            self.end_suite(suite)

    def start_suite(self, suite):
        """Called when suite starts.

        :param suite: Suite to process.
        :type suite: Suite
        :returns: Nothing.
        """

        try:
            parent_name = suite.parent.name
        except AttributeError:
            return

        doc_str = suite.doc.replace('"', "'").replace('\n', ' ').\
            replace('\r', '').replace('*[', ' |br| *[').replace("*", "**")
        doc_str = replace(doc_str, ' |br| *[', '*[', maxreplace=1)

        self._data["suites"][suite.longname.lower().replace('"', "'").
            replace(" ", "_")] = {
            "name": suite.name.lower(),
            "doc": doc_str,
            "parent": parent_name,
            "level": len(suite.longname.split("."))
        }

        suite.keywords.visit(self)

    def end_suite(self, suite):
        """Called when suite ends.

        :param suite: Suite to process.
        :type suite: Suite
        :returns: Nothing.
        """
        pass

    def visit_test(self, test):
        """Implements traversing through the test.

        :param test: Test to process.
        :type test: Test
        :returns: Nothing.
        """
        if self.start_test(test) is not False:
            test.keywords.visit(self)
            self.end_test(test)

    def start_test(self, test):
        """Called when test starts.

        :param test: Test to process.
        :type test: Test
        :returns: Nothing.
        """

        tags = [str(tag) for tag in test.tags]
        test_result = dict()
        test_result["name"] = test.name.lower()
        test_result["parent"] = test.parent.name.lower()
        test_result["tags"] = tags
        doc_str = test.doc.replace('"', "'").replace('\n', ' '). \
            replace('\r', '').replace('[', ' |br| [')
        test_result["doc"] =  replace(doc_str, ' |br| [', '[', maxreplace=1)
        test_result["msg"] = test.message.replace('\n', ' |br| '). \
            replace('\r', '').replace('"', "'")
        if test.status == "PASS" and "NDRPDRDISC" in tags:

            if "NDRDISC" in tags:
                test_type = "NDR"
            elif "PDRDISC" in tags:
                test_type = "PDR"
            else:
                return

            try:
                rate_value = str(re.search(
                    self.REGEX_RATE, test.message).group(1))
            except AttributeError:
                rate_value = "-1"
            try:
                rate_unit = str(re.search(
                    self.REGEX_RATE, test.message).group(2))
            except AttributeError:
                rate_unit = "-1"

            test_result["type"] = test_type
            test_result["throughput"] = dict()
            test_result["throughput"]["value"] = int(rate_value.split('.')[0])
            test_result["throughput"]["unit"] = rate_unit
            test_result["latency"] = self._get_latency(test.message, test_type)
            if test_type == "PDR":
                test_result["lossTolerance"] = str(re.search(
                    self.REGEX_TOLERANCE, test.message).group(1))
        else:
            test_result["status"] = test.status

        self._test_ID = test.longname.lower()
        self._data["tests"][self._test_ID] = test_result

    def end_test(self, test):
        """Called when test ends.

        :param test: Test to process.
        :type test: Test
        :returns: Nothing.
        """
        pass

    def visit_keyword(self, keyword):
        """Implements traversing through the keyword and its child keywords.

        :param keyword: Keyword to process.
        :type keyword: Keyword
        :returns: Nothing.
        """
        if self.start_keyword(keyword) is not False:
            self.end_keyword(keyword)

    def start_keyword(self, keyword):
        """Called when keyword starts. Default implementation does nothing.

        :param keyword: Keyword to process.
        :type keyword: Keyword
        :returns: Nothing.
        """
        try:
            if keyword.type == "setup":
                self.visit_setup_kw(keyword)
            elif keyword.type == "teardown":
                self._lookup_kw_nr = 0
                self.visit_teardown_kw(keyword)
        except AttributeError:
            pass

    def end_keyword(self, keyword):
        """Called when keyword ends. Default implementation does nothing.

        :param keyword: Keyword to process.
        :type keyword: Keyword
        :returns: Nothing.
        """
        pass

    def visit_setup_kw(self, setup_kw):
        """Implements traversing through the teardown keyword and its child
        keywords.

        :param setup_kw: Keyword to process.
        :type setup_kw: Keyword
        :returns: Nothing.
        """
        for keyword in setup_kw.keywords:
            if self.start_setup_kw(keyword) is not False:
                self.visit_setup_kw(keyword)
                self.end_setup_kw(keyword)

    def start_setup_kw(self, setup_kw):
        """Called when teardown keyword starts. Default implementation does
        nothing.

        :param setup_kw: Keyword to process.
        :type setup_kw: Keyword
        :returns: Nothing.
        """
        if setup_kw.name.count("Vpp Show Version Verbose") \
                and not self._version:
            self._msg_type = "setup-version"
            setup_kw.messages.visit(self)

    def end_setup_kw(self, setup_kw):
        """Called when keyword ends. Default implementation does nothing.

        :param setup_kw: Keyword to process.
        :type setup_kw: Keyword
        :returns: Nothing.
        """
        pass

    def visit_teardown_kw(self, teardown_kw):
        """Implements traversing through the teardown keyword and its child
        keywords.

        :param teardown_kw: Keyword to process.
        :type teardown_kw: Keyword
        :returns: Nothing.
        """
        for keyword in teardown_kw.keywords:
            if self.start_teardown_kw(keyword) is not False:
                self.visit_teardown_kw(keyword)
                self.end_teardown_kw(keyword)

    def start_teardown_kw(self, teardown_kw):
        """Called when teardown keyword starts. Default implementation does
        nothing.

        :param teardown_kw: Keyword to process.
        :type teardown_kw: Keyword
        :returns: Nothing.
        """

        if teardown_kw.name.count("Show Vat History On All Duts"):
            self._vat_history_lookup_nr = 0
            self._msg_type = "teardown-vat-history"
        elif teardown_kw.name.count("Show Statistics On All Duts"):
            self._lookup_kw_nr += 1
            self._show_run_lookup_nr = 0
            self._msg_type = "teardown-show-runtime"

        if self._msg_type:
            teardown_kw.messages.visit(self)

    def end_teardown_kw(self, teardown_kw):
        """Called when keyword ends. Default implementation does nothing.

        :param teardown_kw: Keyword to process.
        :type teardown_kw: Keyword
        :returns: Nothing.
        """
        pass

    def visit_message(self, msg):
        """Implements visiting the message.

        :param msg: Message to process.
        :type msg: Message
        :returns: Nothing.
        """
        if self.start_message(msg) is not False:
            self.end_message(msg)

    def start_message(self, msg):
        """Called when message starts. Get required information from messages:
        - VPP version.

        :param msg: Message to process.
        :type msg: Message
        :returns: Nothing.
        """

        if self._msg_type:
            self.parse_msg[self._msg_type](msg)

    def end_message(self, msg):
        """Called when message ends. Default implementation does nothing.

        :param msg: Message to process.
        :type msg: Message
        :returns: Nothing.
        """
        pass


class InputData(object):
    """Input data

    The data is extracted from output.xml files generated by Jenkins jobs and
    stored in pandas' DataFrames.

    The data structure:
    - job name
      - build number
        - metadata
          - job
          - build
          - vpp version
        - suites
        - tests
          - ID: test data (as described in ExecutionChecker documentation)
    """

    def __init__(self, spec):
        """Initialization.

        :param spec: Specification.
        :type spec: Specification
        """

        # Specification:
        self._cfg = spec

        # Data store:
        self._input_data = None

    @property
    def data(self):
        """Getter - Input data.

        :returns: Input data
        :rtype: pandas.Series
        """
        return self._input_data

    def metadata(self, job, build):
        """Getter - metadata

        :param job: Job which metadata we want.
        :param build: Build which metadata we want.
        :type job: str
        :type build: str
        :returns: Metadata
        :rtype: pandas.Series
        """

        return self.data[job][build]["metadata"]

    def suites(self, job, build):
        """Getter - suites

        :param job: Job which suites we want.
        :param build: Build which suites we want.
        :type job: str
        :type build: str
        :returns: Suites.
        :rtype: pandas.Series
        """

        return self.data[job][str(build)]["suites"]

    def tests(self, job, build):
        """Getter - tests

        :param job: Job which tests we want.
        :param build: Build which tests we want.
        :type job: str
        :type build: str
        :returns: Tests.
        :rtype: pandas.Series
        """

        return self.data[job][build]["tests"]

    @staticmethod
    def _parse_tests(job, build):
        """Process data from robot output.xml file and return JSON structured
        data.

        :param job: The name of job which build output data will be processed.
        :param build: The build which output data will be processed.
        :type job: str
        :type build: dict
        :returns: JSON data structure.
        :rtype: dict
        """

        with open(build["file-name"], 'r') as data_file:
            result = ExecutionResult(data_file)
        checker = ExecutionChecker(job=job, build=build)
        result.visit(checker)

        return checker.data

    def read_data(self):
        """Parse input data from input files and store in pandas' Series.
        """

        logging.info("Parsing input files ...")

        job_data = dict()
        for job, builds in self._cfg.builds.items():
            logging.info("  Extracting data from the job '{0}' ...'".
                         format(job))
            builds_data = dict()
            for build in builds:
                if build["status"] == "failed" \
                        or build["status"] == "not found":
                    continue
                logging.info("    Extracting data from the build '{0}'".
                             format(build["build"]))
                logging.info("    Processing the file '{0}'".
                             format(build["file-name"]))
                data = InputData._parse_tests(job, build)

                build_data = pd.Series({
                    "metadata": pd.Series(data["metadata"].values(),
                                          index=data["metadata"].keys()),
                    "suites": pd.Series(data["suites"].values(),
                                        index=data["suites"].keys()),
                    "tests": pd.Series(data["tests"].values(),
                                       index=data["tests"].keys()),
                    })
                builds_data[str(build["build"])] = build_data
                logging.info("    Done.")

            job_data[job] = pd.Series(builds_data.values(),
                                      index=builds_data.keys())
            logging.info("  Done.")

        self._input_data = pd.Series(job_data.values(), index=job_data.keys())
        logging.info("Done.")

    @staticmethod
    def _end_of_tag(tag_filter, start=0, closer="'"):
        """Return the index of character in the string which is the end of tag.

        :param tag_filter: The string where the end of tag is being searched.
        :param start: The index where the searching is stated.
        :param closer: The character which is the tag closer.
        :type tag_filter: str
        :type start: int
        :type closer: str
        :returns: The index of the tag closer.
        :rtype: int
        """

        try:
            idx_opener = tag_filter.index(closer, start)
            return tag_filter.index(closer, idx_opener + 1)
        except ValueError:
            return None

    @staticmethod
    def _condition(tag_filter):
        """Create a conditional statement from the given tag filter.

        :param tag_filter: Filter based on tags from the element specification.
        :type tag_filter: str
        :returns: Conditional statement which can be evaluated.
        :rtype: str
        """

        index = 0
        while True:
            index = InputData._end_of_tag(tag_filter, index)
            if index is None:
                return tag_filter
            index += 1
            tag_filter = tag_filter[:index] + " in tags" + tag_filter[index:]

    def filter_data(self, element, params=None, data_set="tests"):
        """Filter required data from the given jobs and builds.

        The output data structure is:

        - job 1
          - build 1
            - test (suite) 1 ID:
              - param 1
              - param 2
              ...
              - param n
            ...
            - test (suite) n ID:
            ...
          ...
          - build n
        ...
        - job n

        :param element: Element which will use the filtered data.
        :param params: Parameters which will be included in the output. If None,
        all parameters are included.
        :param data_set: The set of data to be filtered: tests, suites,
        metadata.
        :type element: pandas.Series
        :type params: list
        :type data_set: str
        :returns: Filtered data.
        :rtype pandas.Series
        """

        logging.info("    Creating the data set for the {0} '{1}'.".
                     format(element["type"], element.get("title", "")))

        try:
            if element["filter"] in ("all", "template"):
                cond = "True"
            else:
                cond = InputData._condition(element["filter"])
            logging.debug("   Filter: {0}".format(cond))
        except KeyError:
            logging.error("  No filter defined.")
            return None

        if params is None:
            params = element.get("parameters", None)

        data = pd.Series()
        try:
            for job, builds in element["data"].items():
                data[job] = pd.Series()
                for build in builds:
                    data[job][str(build)] = pd.Series()
                    for test_ID, test_data in \
                            self.data[job][str(build)][data_set].iteritems():
                        if eval(cond, {"tags": test_data.get("tags", "")}):
                            data[job][str(build)][test_ID] = pd.Series()
                            if params is None:
                                for param, val in test_data.items():
                                    data[job][str(build)][test_ID][param] = val
                            else:
                                for param in params:
                                    try:
                                        data[job][str(build)][test_ID][param] =\
                                            test_data[param]
                                    except KeyError:
                                        data[job][str(build)][test_ID][param] =\
                                            "No Data"
            return data

        except (KeyError, IndexError, ValueError) as err:
            logging.error("   Missing mandatory parameter in the element "
                          "specification.", err)
            return None
        except SyntaxError:
            logging.error("   The filter '{0}' is not correct. Check if all "
                          "tags are enclosed by apostrophes.".format(cond))
            return None