path: root/ext/rpc/xmlrpc/libxmlrpc/xml_element.c

/*
  This file is part of libXMLRPC - a C library for xml-encoded function calls.

  Author: Dan Libby (dan@libby.com)
  Epinions.com may be contacted at feedback@epinions-inc.com
*/

/*  
  Copyright 2000 Epinions, Inc. 

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static const char rcsid[] = "#(@) $Id$";



/****h* ABOUT/xml_element
 * NAME
 *   xml_element
 * AUTHOR
 *   Dan Libby, aka danda  (dan@libby.com)
 * CREATION DATE
 *   06/2000
 * HISTORY
 *   $Log$
 *   Revision 1.3  2002/07/05 04:43:53  danda
 *   merged in updates from SF project.  bring php repository up to date with xmlrpc-epi version 0.51
 *
 *   Revision 1.9  2002/07/03 20:54:30  danda
 *   root element should not have a parent. patch from anon SF user
 *
 *   Revision 1.8  2002/05/23 17:46:51  danda
 *   patch from mukund - fix non utf-8 encoding conversions
 *
 *   Revision 1.7  2002/02/13 20:58:50  danda
 *   patch to make source more windows friendly, contributed by Jeff Lawson
 *
 *   Revision 1.6  2002/01/08 01:06:55  danda
 *   enable <?xml version="1.0"?> format for parsers that are very picky.
 *
 *   Revision 1.5  2001/09/29 21:58:05  danda
 *   adding cvs log to history section
 *
 *   10/15/2000 -- danda -- adding robodoc documentation
 * TODO
 *   Nicer external API. Get rid of macros.  Make opaque types, etc.
 * PORTABILITY
 *   Coded on RedHat Linux 6.2.  Builds on Solaris x86.  Should build on just
 *   about anything with minor mods.
 * NOTES
 *   This code incorporates ideas from expat-ensor from http://xml.ensor.org.
 *  
 *   It was coded primarily to act as a go-between for expat and xmlrpc. To this
 *   end, it stores xml elements, their sub-elements, and their attributes in an
 *   in-memory tree.  When expat is done parsing, the tree can be walked, thus
 *   retrieving the values.  The code can also be used to build a tree via API then
 *   write out the tree to a buffer, thus "serializing" the xml.
 *
 *   It turns out this is useful for other purposes, such as parsing config files.
 *   YMMV.
 *
 *   Some Features:
 *     - output option for xml escaping data.  Choices include no escaping, entity escaping,
 *       or CDATA sections.
 *     - output option for character encoding.  Defaults to (none) utf-8.
 *     - output option for verbosity/readability.  ultra-compact, newlines, pretty/level indented. 
 *
 * BUGS
 *   there must be some.
 ******/
 
#ifdef _WIN32
#include "xmlrpc_win32.h"
#endif
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

#include "xml_element.h"
#include "queue.h"
#include "expat.h"
#include "encodings.h"

#define my_free(thing)  if(thing) {free(thing); thing = 0;}

#define XML_DECL_START                 "<?xml"
#define XML_DECL_START_LEN             sizeof(XML_DECL_START) - 1
#define XML_DECL_VERSION               "version=\"1.0\""
#define XML_DECL_VERSION_LEN           sizeof(XML_DECL_VERSION) - 1
#define XML_DECL_ENCODING_ATTR         "encoding"
#define XML_DECL_ENCODING_ATTR_LEN     sizeof(XML_DECL_ENCODING_ATTR) - 1
#define XML_DECL_ENCODING_DEFAULT      "utf-8"
#define XML_DECL_ENCODING_DEFAULT_LEN  sizeof(XML_DECL_ENCODING_DEFAULT) - 1
#define XML_DECL_END                   "?>"
#define XML_DECL_END_LEN               sizeof(XML_DECL_END) - 1
#define START_TOKEN_BEGIN              "<"
#define START_TOKEN_BEGIN_LEN          sizeof(START_TOKEN_BEGIN) - 1
#define START_TOKEN_END                ">"
#define START_TOKEN_END_LEN            sizeof(START_TOKEN_END) - 1
#define EMPTY_START_TOKEN_END          "/>"
#define EMPTY_START_TOKEN_END_LEN      sizeof(EMPTY_START_TOKEN_END) - 1
#define END_TOKEN_BEGIN                "</"
#define END_TOKEN_BEGIN_LEN            sizeof(END_TOKEN_BEGIN) - 1
#define END_TOKEN_END                  ">"
#define END_TOKEN_END_LEN              sizeof(END_TOKEN_END) - 1
#define ATTR_DELIMITER                 "\""
#define ATTR_DELIMITER_LEN             sizeof(ATTR_DELIMITER) - 1
#define CDATA_BEGIN                    "<![CDATA["
#define CDATA_BEGIN_LEN                sizeof(CDATA_BEGIN) - 1
#define CDATA_END                      "]]>"
#define CDATA_END_LEN                  sizeof(CDATA_END) - 1
#define EQUALS                         "="
#define EQUALS_LEN                     sizeof(EQUALS) - 1
#define WHITESPACE                     " "
#define WHITESPACE_LEN                 sizeof(WHITESPACE) - 1
#define NEWLINE                        "\n"
#define NEWLINE_LEN                    sizeof(NEWLINE) - 1
#define MAX_VAL_BUF                    144
#define SCALAR_STR                     "SCALAR"
#define SCALAR_STR_LEN                 sizeof(SCALAR_STR) - 1
#define VECTOR_STR                     "VECTOR"
#define VECTOR_STR_LEN                 sizeof(VECTOR_STR) - 1
#define RESPONSE_STR                   "RESPONSE"
#define RESPONSE_STR_LEN               sizeof(RESPONSE_STR) - 1


/*-----------------------------
- Begin xml_element Functions -
-----------------------------*/

/****f* xml_element/xml_elem_free_non_recurse
 * NAME
 *   xml_elem_free_non_recurse
 * SYNOPSIS
 *   void xml_elem_free_non_recurse(xml_element* root)
 * FUNCTION
 *   free a single xml element.  child elements will not be freed.
 * INPUTS
 *   root - the element to free
 * RESULT
 *   void
 * NOTES
 * SEE ALSO
 *   xml_elem_free ()
 *   xml_elem_new ()
 * SOURCE
 */
void xml_elem_free_non_recurse(xml_element* root) {
   if(root) {
      xml_element_attr* attrs = Q_Head(&root->attrs);
      while(attrs) {
         my_free(attrs->key);
         my_free(attrs->val);
         my_free(attrs);
         attrs = Q_Next(&root->attrs);
      }

      Q_Destroy(&root->children);
      Q_Destroy(&root->attrs);
      my_free((char*)root->name);
      simplestring_free(&root->text);
      my_free(root);
   }
}
/******/

/****f* xml_element/xml_elem_free
 * NAME
 *   xml_elem_free
 * SYNOPSIS
 *   void xml_elem_free(xml_element* root)
 * FUNCTION
 *   free an xml element and all of its child elements
 * INPUTS
 *   root - the root of an xml tree you would like to free
 * RESULT
 *   void
 * NOTES
 * SEE ALSO
 *   xml_elem_free_non_recurse ()
 *   xml_elem_new ()
 * SOURCE
 */
void xml_elem_free(xml_element* root) {
   if(root) {
      xml_element* kids = Q_Head(&root->children);
      while(kids) {
         xml_elem_free(kids);
         kids = Q_Next(&root->children);
      }
      xml_elem_free_non_recurse(root);
   }
}
/******/

/****f* xml_element/xml_elem_new
 * NAME
 *   xml_elem_new
 * SYNOPSIS
 *   xml_element* xml_elem_new()
 * FUNCTION
 *   allocates and initializes a new xml_element
 * INPUTS
 *   none
 * RESULT
 *   xml_element* or NULL.  NULL indicates an out-of-memory condition.
 * NOTES
 * SEE ALSO
 *   xml_elem_free ()
 *   xml_elem_free_non_recurse ()
 * SOURCE
 */
xml_element* xml_elem_new() {
   xml_element* elem = calloc(1, sizeof(xml_element));
   if(elem) {
      Q_Init(&elem->children);
      Q_Init(&elem->attrs);
      simplestring_init(&elem->text);

      /* init empty string in case we don't find any char data */
      simplestring_addn(&elem->text, "", 0);
   }
   return elem;
}
/******/

static int xml_elem_writefunc(int (*fptr)(void *data, const char *text, int size), const char *text, void *data, int len)
{
   return fptr && text ? fptr(data, text, len ? len : strlen(text)) : 0;
}



static int create_xml_escape(char *pString, unsigned char c)
{ 
  int counter = 0;

  pString[counter++] = '&';
  pString[counter++] = '#';
  if(c >= 100) {
    pString[counter++] = c / 100 + '0';
    c = c % 100;
  }
  if(c >= 10) {
    pString[counter++] = c / 10 + '0';
    c = c % 10;
  }
  pString[counter++] = c + '0';
  pString[counter++] = ';';
  return counter; 
}

#define non_ascii(c) (c > 127)
#define non_print(c) (!isprint(c))
#define markup(c) (c == '&' || c == '\"' || c == '>' || c == '<')
#define entity_length(c) ( (c >= 100) ? 3 : ((c >= 10) ? 2 : 1) ) + 3; /* "&#" + c + ";" */

/*
 * xml_elem_entity_escape
 *
 * Purpose:
 *   escape reserved xml chars and non utf-8 chars as xml entities
 * Comments:
 *   The return value may be a new string, or null if no
 *     conversion was performed. In the latter case, *newlen will
 *     be 0.
 * Flags (to escape)
 *  xml_elem_no_escaping             = 0x000,
 *  xml_elem_entity_escaping         = 0x002,   // escape xml special chars as entities
 *  xml_elem_non_ascii_escaping      = 0x008,   // escape chars above 127
 *  xml_elem_cdata_escaping          = 0x010,   // wrap in cdata
 */
static char* xml_elem_entity_escape(const char* buf, int old_len, int *newlen, XML_ELEM_ESCAPING flags) {
  char *pRetval = 0;
  int iNewBufLen=0;

#define should_escape(c, flag) ( ((flag & xml_elem_markup_escaping) && markup(c)) || \
                                 ((flag & xml_elem_non_ascii_escaping) && non_ascii(c)) || \
                                 ((flag & xml_elem_non_print_escaping) && non_print(c)) )

  if(buf && *buf) {
    const unsigned char *bufcopy;
    char *NewBuffer;
    int ToBeXmlEscaped=0;
    int iLength;
    bufcopy = buf;
    iLength= old_len ? old_len : strlen(buf);
    while(*bufcopy) {
      if( should_escape(*bufcopy, flags) ) {
	/* the length will increase by length of xml escape - the character length */
	iLength += entity_length(*bufcopy);
	ToBeXmlEscaped=1;
      }
      bufcopy++;
    }

    if(ToBeXmlEscaped) {

      NewBuffer= malloc(iLength+1);
      if(NewBuffer) {
	bufcopy=buf;
	while(*bufcopy) {
	  if(should_escape(*bufcopy, flags)) {
	    iNewBufLen += create_xml_escape(NewBuffer+iNewBufLen,*bufcopy);
	  }
	  else {
	    NewBuffer[iNewBufLen++]=*bufcopy;
	  }
	  bufcopy++;
	}
	NewBuffer[iNewBufLen] = 0;
	pRetval = NewBuffer;
      }
    }
  }

  if(newlen) {
     *newlen = iNewBufLen;
  }

  return pRetval;
}


static void xml_element_serialize(xml_element *el, int (*fptr)(void *data, const char *text, int size), void *data, XML_ELEM_OUTPUT_OPTIONS options, int depth)
{
   int i;
   static STRUCT_XML_ELEM_OUTPUT_OPTIONS default_opts = {xml_elem_pretty, xml_elem_markup_escaping | xml_elem_non_print_escaping, XML_DECL_ENCODING_DEFAULT};
   static char whitespace[] = "                                                                                               "
                              "                                                                                               "
                              "                                                                                               ";
   depth++;

   if(!el) {
      fprintf(stderr, "Nothing to write\n");
      return;
   }
   if(!options) {
      options = &default_opts;
   }

   /* print xml declaration if at root level */
   if(depth == 1) {
      xml_elem_writefunc(fptr, XML_DECL_START, data, XML_DECL_START_LEN);
      xml_elem_writefunc(fptr, WHITESPACE, data, WHITESPACE_LEN);
      xml_elem_writefunc(fptr, XML_DECL_VERSION, data, XML_DECL_VERSION_LEN);
      if(options->encoding && *options->encoding) {
          xml_elem_writefunc(fptr, WHITESPACE, data, WHITESPACE_LEN);
          xml_elem_writefunc(fptr, XML_DECL_ENCODING_ATTR, data, XML_DECL_ENCODING_ATTR_LEN);
          xml_elem_writefunc(fptr, EQUALS, data, EQUALS_LEN);
          xml_elem_writefunc(fptr, ATTR_DELIMITER, data, ATTR_DELIMITER_LEN);
          xml_elem_writefunc(fptr, options->encoding, data, 0);
          xml_elem_writefunc(fptr, ATTR_DELIMITER, data, ATTR_DELIMITER_LEN);
      }
      xml_elem_writefunc(fptr, XML_DECL_END, data, XML_DECL_END_LEN);
      if(options->verbosity != xml_elem_no_white_space) {
         xml_elem_writefunc(fptr, NEWLINE, data, NEWLINE_LEN);
      }
   }

   if(options->verbosity == xml_elem_pretty && depth > 2) {
         xml_elem_writefunc(fptr, whitespace, data, depth - 2);
   }
   /* begin element */
   xml_elem_writefunc(fptr,START_TOKEN_BEGIN, data, START_TOKEN_BEGIN_LEN);
   if(el->name) {
      xml_elem_writefunc(fptr, el->name, data, 0);

      /* write attrs, if any */
      if(Q_Size(&el->attrs)) {
         xml_element_attr* iter = Q_Head(&el->attrs);
         while( iter ) {
            xml_elem_writefunc(fptr, WHITESPACE, data, WHITESPACE_LEN);
            xml_elem_writefunc(fptr, iter->key, data, 0);
            xml_elem_writefunc(fptr, EQUALS, data, EQUALS_LEN);
            xml_elem_writefunc(fptr, ATTR_DELIMITER, data, ATTR_DELIMITER_LEN);
            xml_elem_writefunc(fptr, iter->val, data, 0);
            xml_elem_writefunc(fptr, ATTR_DELIMITER, data, ATTR_DELIMITER_LEN);

            iter = Q_Next(&el->attrs);
         }
      }
   }
   else {
      xml_elem_writefunc(fptr, "None", data, 0);
   }
   /* if no text and no children, use abbreviated form, eg: <foo/> */
   if(!el->text.len && !Q_Size(&el->children)) {
       xml_elem_writefunc(fptr, EMPTY_START_TOKEN_END, data, EMPTY_START_TOKEN_END_LEN);
   }
   /* otherwise, print element contents */
   else {
       xml_elem_writefunc(fptr, START_TOKEN_END, data, START_TOKEN_END_LEN);

       /* print text, if any */
       if(el->text.len) {
          char* escaped_str = el->text.str;
          int buflen = el->text.len;

          if(options->escaping && options->escaping != xml_elem_cdata_escaping) {
             escaped_str = xml_elem_entity_escape(el->text.str, buflen, &buflen, options->escaping );
             if(!escaped_str) {
                escaped_str = el->text.str;
             }
          }

          if(options->escaping & xml_elem_cdata_escaping) {
             xml_elem_writefunc(fptr, CDATA_BEGIN, data, CDATA_BEGIN_LEN);
          }

          xml_elem_writefunc(fptr, escaped_str, data, buflen);

          if(escaped_str != el->text.str) {
             my_free(escaped_str);
          }

          if(options->escaping & xml_elem_cdata_escaping) {
             xml_elem_writefunc(fptr, CDATA_END, data, CDATA_END_LEN);
          }
       }
       /* no text, so print child elems */
       else {
          xml_element *kids = Q_Head(&el->children);
          i = 0;
          while( kids ) {
             if(i++ == 0) {
                if(options->verbosity != xml_elem_no_white_space) {
                   xml_elem_writefunc(fptr, NEWLINE, data, NEWLINE_LEN);
                }
             }
             xml_element_serialize(kids, fptr, data, options, depth);
             kids = Q_Next(&el->children);
          }
          if(i) {
             if(options->verbosity == xml_elem_pretty && depth > 2) {
                   xml_elem_writefunc(fptr, whitespace, data, depth - 2);
             }
          }
       }

       xml_elem_writefunc(fptr, END_TOKEN_BEGIN, data, END_TOKEN_BEGIN_LEN);
       xml_elem_writefunc(fptr,el->name ? el->name : "None", data, 0);
       xml_elem_writefunc(fptr, END_TOKEN_END, data, END_TOKEN_END_LEN);
   }
   if(options->verbosity != xml_elem_no_white_space) {
      xml_elem_writefunc(fptr, NEWLINE, data, NEWLINE_LEN);
   }
}

/* print buf to file */
static file_out_fptr(void *f, const char *text, int size)
{
   fputs(text, (FILE *)f);
}

/* print buf to simplestring */
static simplestring_out_fptr(void *f, const char *text, int size)
{
   simplestring* buf = (simplestring*)f;
   if(buf) {
      simplestring_addn(buf, text, size);
   }
}

/****f* xml_element/xml_elem_serialize_to_string
 * NAME
 *   xml_elem_serialize_to_string
 * SYNOPSIS
 *   void xml_element_serialize_to_string(xml_element *el, XML_ELEM_OUTPUT_OPTIONS options, int *buf_len)
 * FUNCTION
 *   writes element tree as XML into a newly allocated buffer
 * INPUTS
 *   el      - root element of tree
 *   options - options determining how output is written.  see XML_ELEM_OUTPUT_OPTIONS
 *   buf_len - length of returned buffer, if not null.
 * RESULT
 *   char* or NULL. Must be free'd by caller.
 * NOTES
 * SEE ALSO
 *   xml_elem_serialize_to_stream ()
 *   xml_elem_parse_buf ()
 * SOURCE
 */
char* xml_elem_serialize_to_string(xml_element *el, XML_ELEM_OUTPUT_OPTIONS options, int *buf_len)
{
   simplestring buf;
   simplestring_init(&buf);

   xml_element_serialize(el, simplestring_out_fptr, (void *)&buf, options, 0);

   if(buf_len) {
      *buf_len = buf.len;
   }

   return buf.str;
}
/******/

/****f* xml_element/xml_elem_serialize_to_stream
 * NAME
 *   xml_elem_serialize_to_stream
 * SYNOPSIS
 *   void xml_elem_serialize_to_stream(xml_element *el, FILE *output, XML_ELEM_OUTPUT_OPTIONS options)
 * FUNCTION
 *   writes element tree as XML into a stream (typically an opened file)
 * INPUTS
 *   el      - root element of tree
 *   output  - stream handle
 *   options - options determining how output is written.  see XML_ELEM_OUTPUT_OPTIONS
 * RESULT
 *   void
 * NOTES
 * SEE ALSO
 *   xml_elem_serialize_to_string ()
 *   xml_elem_parse_buf ()
 * SOURCE
 */
void xml_elem_serialize_to_stream(xml_element *el, FILE *output, XML_ELEM_OUTPUT_OPTIONS options)
{
   xml_element_serialize(el, file_out_fptr, (void *)output, options, 0);
}
/******/

/*--------------------------*
* End xml_element Functions *
*--------------------------*/


/*----------------------
* Begin Expat Handlers *
*---------------------*/

typedef struct _xml_elem_data {
   xml_element*           root;
   xml_element*           current;
   XML_ELEM_INPUT_OPTIONS input_options;
   int                    needs_enc_conversion;
} xml_elem_data;


/* expat start of element handler */
static void startElement(void *userData, const char *name, const char **attrs)
{
   xml_element *c;
   xml_elem_data* mydata = (xml_elem_data*)userData;
   const char** p = attrs;

   if(mydata) {
      c = mydata->current;

      mydata->current = xml_elem_new();
      mydata->current->name = (char*)strdup(name);
      mydata->current->parent = c;

      /* init attrs */
      while(p && *p) {
         xml_element_attr* attr = malloc(sizeof(xml_element_attr));
         if(attr) {
            attr->key = strdup(*p);
            attr->val = strdup(*(p+1));
            Q_PushTail(&mydata->current->attrs, attr);

            p += 2;
         }
      }
   }
}

/* expat end of element handler */
static void endElement(void *userData, const char *name)
{
   xml_elem_data* mydata = (xml_elem_data*)userData;

   if(mydata && mydata->current && mydata->current->parent) {
      Q_PushTail(&mydata->current->parent->children, mydata->current);

      mydata->current = mydata->current->parent;
   }
}

/* expat char data handler */
static void charHandler(void *userData,
                        const char *s,
                        int len)
{
   xml_elem_data* mydata = (xml_elem_data*)userData;
   if(mydata && mydata->current) {

      /* Check if we need to decode utf-8 parser output to another encoding */
      if(mydata->needs_enc_conversion && mydata->input_options->encoding) {
         int new_len = 0;
         char* add_text = utf8_decode(s, len, &new_len, mydata->input_options->encoding);
         if(add_text) {
            len = new_len;
            simplestring_addn(&mydata->current->text, add_text, len);
            free(add_text);
            return;
         }
      }
      simplestring_addn(&mydata->current->text, s, len);
   }
}
/******/

/*-------------------*
* End Expat Handlers *
*-------------------*/

/*-------------------*
* xml_elem_parse_buf *
*-------------------*/

/****f* xml_element/xml_elem_parse_buf
 * NAME
 *   xml_elem_parse_buf
 * SYNOPSIS
 *   xml_element* xml_elem_parse_buf(const char* in_buf, int len, XML_ELEM_INPUT_OPTIONS options, XML_ELEM_ERROR error)
 * FUNCTION
 *   parse a buffer containing XML into an xml_element in-memory tree
 * INPUTS
 *   in_buf   - buffer containing XML document
 *   len      - length of buffer
 *   options  - input options. optional
 *   error    - error result data. optional. check if result is null.
 * RESULT
 *   void
 * NOTES
 *   The returned data must be free'd by caller
 * SEE ALSO
 *   xml_elem_serialize_to_string ()
 *   xml_elem_free ()
 * SOURCE
 */
xml_element* xml_elem_parse_buf(const char* in_buf, int len, XML_ELEM_INPUT_OPTIONS options, XML_ELEM_ERROR error)
{
   xml_element* xReturn = NULL;
   char buf[100] = "";
   static STRUCT_XML_ELEM_INPUT_OPTIONS default_opts = {encoding_utf_8};

   if(!options) {
      options = &default_opts;
   }

   if(in_buf) {
      XML_Parser parser;
      xml_elem_data mydata = {0};

      parser = XML_ParserCreate(NULL);

      mydata.root = xml_elem_new();
      mydata.current = mydata.root;
      mydata.input_options = options;
      mydata.needs_enc_conversion = options->encoding && strcmp(options->encoding, encoding_utf_8);

      XML_SetElementHandler(parser, startElement, endElement);
      XML_SetCharacterDataHandler(parser, charHandler);

      /* pass the xml_elem_data struct along */
      XML_SetUserData(parser, (void*)&mydata);

      if(!len) {
         len = strlen(in_buf);
      }

      /* parse the XML */
      if(XML_Parse(parser, in_buf, len, 1) == 0) {
         enum XML_Error err_code = XML_GetErrorCode(parser);
         int line_num = XML_GetCurrentLineNumber(parser);
         int col_num = XML_GetCurrentColumnNumber(parser);
         long byte_idx = XML_GetCurrentByteIndex(parser);
         int byte_total = XML_GetCurrentByteCount(parser);
         const char * error_str = XML_ErrorString(err_code);
         if(byte_idx >= 0) {
             snprintf(buf, 
                      sizeof(buf),
                      "\n\tdata beginning %i before byte index: %s\n",
                      byte_idx > 10  ? 10 : byte_idx,
                      in_buf + (byte_idx > 10 ? byte_idx - 10 : byte_idx));
         }

         fprintf(stderr, "expat reports error code %i\n"
                "\tdescription: %s\n"
                "\tline: %i\n"
                "\tcolumn: %i\n"
                "\tbyte index: %i\n"
                "\ttotal bytes: %i\n%s ",
                err_code, error_str, line_num, 
                col_num, byte_idx, byte_total, buf);


          /* error condition */
          if(error) {
              error->parser_code = (long)err_code;
              error->line = line_num;
              error->column = col_num;
              error->byte_index = byte_idx;
              error->parser_error = error_str;
          }
      }
      else {
         xReturn = (xml_element*)Q_Head(&mydata.root->children);
         xReturn->parent = NULL;
      }

      XML_ParserFree(parser);


      xml_elem_free_non_recurse(mydata.root);
   }

   return xReturn;
}

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