Table Filter
A table filter is an interface which determines if a table or schema should be
accepted for some process or not given its name.
This package defines the format allowing users to specify the filter criteria
via command line or config files. This package is used by all tools in the TiDB
ecosystem.
Examples
package main
import (
"fmt"
"github.com/pingcap/tidb-tools/pkg/table-filter"
"github.com/spf13/pflag"
)
func main() {
args := pflag.StringArrayP("filter", "f", []string{"*.*"}, "table filter")
pflag.Parse()
f, err := filter.Parse(*args)
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
f = filter.CaseInsensitive(f)
tables := []filter.Table{
{Schema: "employees", Name: "employees"},
{Schema: "employees", Name: "departments"},
{Schema: "employees", Name: "dept_manager"},
{Schema: "employees", Name: "dept_emp"},
{Schema: "employees", Name: "titles"},
{Schema: "employees", Name: "salaries"},
{Schema: "AdventureWorks.Person", Name: "Person"},
{Schema: "AdventureWorks.Person", Name: "Password"},
{Schema: "AdventureWorks.Sales", Name: "SalesOrderDetail"},
{Schema: "AdventureWorks.Sales", Name: "SalesOrderHeader"},
{Schema: "AdventureWorks.Production", Name: "WorkOrder"},
{Schema: "AdventureWorks.Production", Name: "WorkOrderRouting"},
{Schema: "AdventureWorks.Production", Name: "ProductPhoto"},
{Schema: "AdventureWorks.Production", Name: "TransactionHistory"},
{Schema: "AdventureWorks.Production", Name: "TransactionHistoryArchive"},
}
for _, table := range tables {
fmt.Printf("%5v: %v\n", f.MatchTable(table.Schema, table.Name), table)
}
}
Try to run with ./main -f 'employee.*' -f '*.WorkOrder'
and see the result.
Syntax
Allowlist
The input to the filter.Parse()
function is a list of table filter rules.
Each rule specifies what the fully-qualified name of the table to be accepted.
db1.tbl1
db2.tbl2
db3.tbl3
A plain name must only consist of valid identifier characters
[0-9a-zA-Z$_\U00000080-\U0010ffff]+
. All other ASCII characters are reserved.
Some punctuations have special meanings, described below.
Wildcards
Each part of the name can be a wildcard symbol as in fnmatch(3):
*
— matches zero or more characters
?
— matches one character
[a-z]
— matches one character between “a” and “z” inclusive
[!a-z]
— matches one character except “a” to “z”.
db[0-9].tbl[0-9][0-9]
data.*
*.backup_*
“Character” here means a Unicode code point, so e.g.
- U+00E9 (é) is 1 character.
- U+0065 U+0301 (é) are 2 characters.
- U+1F926 U+1F3FF U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F (🤦🏿♀️) are 5 characters.
File import
Include an @
at the beginning of the string to specify a file name, which
filter.Parse()
reads every line as filter rules.
For example, if a file config/filter.txt
has content:
employees.*
*.WorkOrder
the following two invocations would be equivalent:
./main -f '@config/filter.txt'
./main -f 'employees.*' -f '*.WorkOrder'
A filter file cannot further import another file.
Leading and trailing white-spaces of every line are trimmed.
Blank lines (empty strings) are ignored.
A leading #
marks a comment and is ignored.
#
not at start of line may be considered syntax error.
Blocklist
An !
at the beginning of the line means the pattern after it is used to
exclude tables from being processed. This effectively turns the filter into a
blocklist.
*.*
#^ note: must add the *.* to include all tables first
!*.Password
!employees.salaries
Escape character
Precede any special character by a \
to turn it into an identifier character.
AdventureWorks\.*.*
For simplicity and future compatibility, the following sequences are prohibited:
\
at the end of the line after trimming whitespaces (use “[ ]
” to match a literal whitespace at the end).
\
followed by any ASCII alphanumeric character ([0-9a-zA-Z]
). In particular, C-like escape sequences like \0
, \r
, \n
and \t
currently are meaningless.
Quoted identifier
Besides \
, special characters can also be escaped by quoting using "
or `
.
"AdventureWorks.Person".Person
`AdventureWorks.Person`.Password
Quoted identifier cannot span multiple lines.
It is invalid to partially quote an identifier.
"this is "invalid*.*
Regular expression
Use /
to delimit regular expressions:
/^db\d{2,}$/./^tbl\d{2,}$/
These regular expressions use the Go dialect. The pattern is matched if the
identifier contains a substring matching the regular expression. For instance,
/b/
matches db01
.
(Note: every /
in the regex must be escaped as \/
, including inside [
…]
.
You cannot place an unescaped /
between \Q
…\E
.)
Algorithm
Default behavior
When a table name matches none of the rules in the filter list, the default
behavior is to ignore such unmatched tables.
To build a blocklist, an explicit *.*
must be used as the first rule,
otherwise all tables will be excluded.
# every table will be filtered out
./main -f '!*.Password'
# only the "Password" table is filtered out, the rest are included.
./main -f '*.*' -f '!*.Password'
Precedence
In a filter list, if a table name matches multiple patterns, the last match
decides the outcome. For instance, given
# rule 1
employees.*
# rule 2
!*.dep*
# rule 3
*.departments
We get:
Table name |
Rule 1 |
Rule 2 |
Rule 3 |
Outcome |
irrelevant.table |
|
|
|
Default (reject) |
employees.employees |
✓ |
|
|
Rule 1 (accept) |
employees.dept_emp |
✓ |
✓ |
|
Rule 2 (reject) |
employees.departments |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Rule 3 (accept) |
else.departments |
|
✓ |
✓ |
Rule 3 (accept) |