/** * @fileoverview Look for useless escapes in strings and regexes * @author Onur Temizkan */ "use strict"; const astUtils = require("./utils/ast-utils"); //------------------------------------------------------------------------------ // Rule Definition //------------------------------------------------------------------------------ /** * Returns the union of two sets. * @param {Set} setA The first set * @param {Set} setB The second set * @returns {Set} The union of the two sets */ function union(setA, setB) { return new Set(function *() { yield* setA; yield* setB; }()); } const VALID_STRING_ESCAPES = union(new Set("\\nrvtbfux"), astUtils.LINEBREAKS); const REGEX_GENERAL_ESCAPES = new Set("\\bcdDfnpPrsStvwWxu0123456789]"); const REGEX_NON_CHARCLASS_ESCAPES = union(REGEX_GENERAL_ESCAPES, new Set("^/.$*+?[{}|()Bk")); /** * Parses a regular expression into a list of characters with character class info. * @param {string} regExpText The raw text used to create the regular expression * @returns {Object[]} A list of characters, each with info on escaping and whether they're in a character class. * @example * * parseRegExp('a\\b[cd-]') * * returns: * [ * {text: 'a', index: 0, escaped: false, inCharClass: false, startsCharClass: false, endsCharClass: false}, * {text: 'b', index: 2, escaped: true, inCharClass: false, startsCharClass: false, endsCharClass: false}, * {text: 'c', index: 4, escaped: false, inCharClass: true, startsCharClass: true, endsCharClass: false}, * {text: 'd', index: 5, escaped: false, inCharClass: true, startsCharClass: false, endsCharClass: false}, * {text: '-', index: 6, escaped: false, inCharClass: true, startsCharClass: false, endsCharClass: false} * ] */ function parseRegExp(regExpText) { const charList = []; regExpText.split("").reduce((state, char, index) => { if (!state.escapeNextChar) { if (char === "\\") { return Object.assign(state, { escapeNextChar: true }); } if (char === "[" && !state.inCharClass) { return Object.assign(state, { inCharClass: true, startingCharClass: true }); } if (char === "]" && state.inCharClass) { if (charList.length && charList[charList.length - 1].inCharClass) { charList[charList.length - 1].endsCharClass = true; } return Object.assign(state, { inCharClass: false, startingCharClass: false }); } } charList.push({ text: char, index, escaped: state.escapeNextChar, inCharClass: state.inCharClass, startsCharClass: state.startingCharClass, endsCharClass: false }); return Object.assign(state, { escapeNextChar: false, startingCharClass: false }); }, { escapeNextChar: false, inCharClass: false, startingCharClass: false }); return charList; } module.exports = { meta: { type: "suggestion", docs: { description: "disallow unnecessary escape characters", category: "Best Practices", recommended: true, url: "https://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-useless-escape" }, schema: [] }, create(context) { const sourceCode = context.getSourceCode(); /** * Reports a node * @param {ASTNode} node The node to report * @param {number} startOffset The backslash's offset from the start of the node * @param {string} character The uselessly escaped character (not including the backslash) * @returns {void} */ function report(node, startOffset, character) { const start = sourceCode.getLocFromIndex(sourceCode.getIndexFromLoc(node.loc.start) + startOffset); context.report({ node, loc: { start, end: { line: start.line, column: start.column + 1 } }, message: "Unnecessary escape character: \\{{character}}.", data: { character } }); } /** * Checks if the escape character in given string slice is unnecessary. * @private * @param {ASTNode} node node to validate. * @param {string} match string slice to validate. * @returns {void} */ function validateString(node, match) { const isTemplateElement = node.type === "TemplateElement"; const escapedChar = match[0][1]; let isUnnecessaryEscape = !VALID_STRING_ESCAPES.has(escapedChar); let isQuoteEscape; if (isTemplateElement) { isQuoteEscape = escapedChar === "`"; if (escapedChar === "$") { // Warn if `\$` is not followed by `{` isUnnecessaryEscape = match.input[match.index + 2] !== "{"; } else if (escapedChar === "{") { /* * Warn if `\{` is not preceded by `$`. If preceded by `$`, escaping * is necessary and the rule should not warn. If preceded by `/$`, the rule * will warn for the `/$` instead, as it is the first unnecessarily escaped character. */ isUnnecessaryEscape = match.input[match.index - 1] !== "$"; } } else { isQuoteEscape = escapedChar === node.raw[0]; } if (isUnnecessaryEscape && !isQuoteEscape) { report(node, match.index + 1, match[0].slice(1)); } } /** * Checks if a node has an escape. * @param {ASTNode} node node to check. * @returns {void} */ function check(node) { const isTemplateElement = node.type === "TemplateElement"; if ( isTemplateElement && node.parent && node.parent.parent && node.parent.parent.type === "TaggedTemplateExpression" && node.parent === node.parent.parent.quasi ) { // Don't report tagged template literals, because the backslash character is accessible to the tag function. return; } if (typeof node.value === "string" || isTemplateElement) { /* * JSXAttribute doesn't have any escape sequence: https://facebook.github.io/jsx/. * In addition, backticks are not supported by JSX yet: https://github.com/facebook/jsx/issues/25. */ if (node.parent.type === "JSXAttribute" || node.parent.type === "JSXElement" || node.parent.type === "JSXFragment") { return; } const value = isTemplateElement ? node.value.raw : node.raw.slice(1, -1); const pattern = /\\[^\d]/gu; let match; while ((match = pattern.exec(value))) { validateString(node, match); } } else if (node.regex) { parseRegExp(node.regex.pattern) /* * The '-' character is a special case, because it's only valid to escape it if it's in a character * class, and is not at either edge of the character class. To account for this, don't consider '-' * characters to be valid in general, and filter out '-' characters that appear in the middle of a * character class. */ .filter(charInfo => !(charInfo.text === "-" && charInfo.inCharClass && !charInfo.startsCharClass && !charInfo.endsCharClass)) /* * The '^' character is also a special case; it must always be escaped outside of character classes, but * it only needs to be escaped in character classes if it's at the beginning of the character class. To * account for this, consider it to be a valid escape character outside of character classes, and filter * out '^' characters that appear at the start of a character class. */ .filter(charInfo => !(charInfo.text === "^" && charInfo.startsCharClass)) // Filter out characters that aren't escaped. .filter(charInfo => charInfo.escaped) // Filter out characters that are valid to escape, based on their position in the regular expression. .filter(charInfo => !(charInfo.inCharClass ? REGEX_GENERAL_ESCAPES : REGEX_NON_CHARCLASS_ESCAPES).has(charInfo.text)) // Report all the remaining characters. .forEach(charInfo => report(node, charInfo.index, charInfo.text)); } } return { Literal: check, TemplateElement: check }; } };