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Uncompress.cpp
/** Uncompress input files using pipes.
 * Hook the standard file opening functions, open, fopen and fopen64.
 * If the extension of the file being opened indicates the file is
 * compressed (.gz, .bz2, .xz), open a pipe to a program that
 * decompresses that file (gunzip, bunzip2 or xzdec) and return a
 * handle to the open pipe.
 * @author Shaun Jackman <sjackman@bcgsc.ca>
 */


#include "Fcontrol.h"
#include "SignalHandler.h"
#include "StringUtil.h"
#include <cassert>
#include <cstdio> // for perror
#include <cstdlib>
#include <dlfcn.h>
#include <string>
#include <unistd.h>

using namespace std;

static const char* wgetExec(const string& path)
{
    return
        startsWith(path, "http://") ? "wget -O-" :
        startsWith(path, "https://") ? "wget -O-" :
        startsWith(path, "ftp://") ? "wget -O-" :
        NULL;
}

static const char* zcatExec(const string& path)
{
    return
        endsWith(path, ".ar") ? "ar -p" :
        endsWith(path, ".tar") ? "tar -xOf" :
        endsWith(path, ".tar.Z") ? "tar -zxOf" :
        endsWith(path, ".tar.gz") ? "tar -zxOf" :
        endsWith(path, ".tar.bz2") ? "tar -jxOf" :
        endsWith(path, ".tar.xz") ?
        "tar --use-compress-program=xzdec -xOf" :
        endsWith(path, ".Z") ? "gunzip -c" :
        endsWith(path, ".gz") ? "gunzip -c" :
        endsWith(path, ".bz2") ? "bunzip2 -c" :
        endsWith(path, ".xz") ? "xzdec -c" :
        endsWith(path, ".zip") ? "unzip -p" :
        endsWith(path, ".bam") ? "samtools view -h" :
        endsWith(path, ".jf") ? "jellyfish dump" :
        endsWith(path, ".jfq") ? "jellyfish qdump" :
        endsWith(path, ".sra") ? "fastq-dump -Z --split-spot" :
        endsWith(path, ".url") ? "wget -O- -i" :
        NULL;
}

extern "C" {

    /** Open a pipe to uncompress the specified file.
     * Not thread safe.
     * @return a file descriptor
     */
    static int uncompress(const char *path)
    {
        const char *wget = wgetExec(path);
        const char *zcat = wget != NULL ? wget : zcatExec(path);
        assert(zcat != NULL);

        int fd[2];
        if (pipe(fd) == -1)
            return -1;
        int err = setCloexec(fd[0]);
        assert(err == 0);
        (void)err;

        char arg0[16], arg1[16], arg2[16];
        int n = sscanf(zcat, "%s %s %s", arg0, arg1, arg2);
        assert(n == 2 || n == 3);

        /* It would be more portable to use fork than vfork, but fork can
         * fail with ENOMEM when the process calling fork is using a lot
         * of memory. A workaround for this problem is to set
         * sysctl vm.overcommit_memory=1
         */
#if HAVE_WORKING_VFORK
        pid_t pid = vfork();
#else
        pid_t pid = fork();
#endif
        if (pid == -1)
            return -1;

        if (pid == 0) {
            dup2(fd[1], STDOUT_FILENO);
            close(fd[1]);
            if (n == 2)
                execlp(arg0, arg0, arg1, path, NULL);
            else
                execlp(arg0, arg0, arg1, arg2, path, NULL);
            // Calling perror after vfork is not allowed, but we're about
            // to exit and an error message would be really helpful.
            perror(arg0);
            _exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
        } else {
            close(fd[1]);
            return fd[0];
        }
    }

    /** Open a pipe to uncompress the specified file.
     * @return a FILE pointer
     */
    static FILE* funcompress(const char* path)
    {
        int fd = uncompress(path);
        if (fd == -1) {
            perror(path);
            exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
        }
        return fdopen(fd, "r");
    }

    typedef FILE* (*fopen_t)(const char *path, const char *mode);

    /** If the specified file is compressed, return a pipe that
     * uncompresses it.
     */
    FILE *fopen(const char *path, const char *mode)
    {
        static fopen_t real_fopen;
        if (real_fopen == NULL)
            real_fopen = (fopen_t)dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "fopen");
        if (real_fopen == NULL) {
            fprintf(stderr, "error: dlsym fopen: %s\n", dlerror());
            exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
        }

        // open a web address
        if (wgetExec(path) != NULL)
            return funcompress(path);

        // to check if the file exists, we need to attempt to open it
        FILE* stream = real_fopen(path, mode);
        if (string(mode) != "r" || !stream || zcatExec(path) == NULL)
            return stream;
        else {
            fclose(stream);
            return funcompress(path);
        }
    }

    /** If the specified file is compressed, return a pipe that
     * uncompresses it.
     */
    FILE *fopen64(const char *path, const char *mode)
    {
        static fopen_t real_fopen64;
        if (real_fopen64 == NULL)
            real_fopen64 = (fopen_t)dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "fopen64");
        if (real_fopen64 == NULL) {
            fprintf(stderr, "error: dlsym fopen64: %s\n", dlerror());
            exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
        }

        // open a web address
        if (wgetExec(path) != NULL)
            return funcompress(path);

        // to check if the file exists, we need to attempt to open it
        FILE* stream = real_fopen64(path, mode);
        if (string(mode) != "r" || !stream || zcatExec(path) == NULL)
            return stream;
        else {
            fclose(stream);
            return funcompress(path);
        }
    }

    typedef int (*open_t)(const char *path, int flags, mode_t mode);

    /** If the specified file is compressed, return a pipe that
     * uncompresses it.
     */
    int open(const char *path, int flags, mode_t mode)
    {
        static open_t real_open;
        if (real_open == NULL)
            real_open = (open_t)dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "open");
        if (real_open == NULL) {
            fprintf(stderr, "error: dlsym open: %s\n", dlerror());
            exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
        }

        // open a web address
        if (wgetExec(path) != NULL)
            return uncompress(path);

        // to check if the file exists, we need to attempt to open it
        int filedesc = real_open(path, flags, mode);
        if (mode != ios_base::in || filedesc < 0
                || zcatExec(path) == NULL)
            return filedesc;
        else {
            close(filedesc);
            return uncompress(path);
        }
    }

} // extern "C"


/** Initialize the uncompress module. */
bool uncompress_init()
{
    signalInit();
    return true;
}

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