I'm Tav, a 29yr old from London. I enjoy working on large-scale social, economic and technological systems.

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

# Placed into the Public Domain by tav <tav@espians.com>

"""Validate Javascript Identifiers for use as JSON-P callback parameters."""

import re

from unicodedata import category

# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# javascript identifier unicode categories and "exceptional" chars
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

valid_jsid_categories_start = frozenset([
    'Lu', 'Ll', 'Lt', 'Lm', 'Lo', 'Nl'
    ])

valid_jsid_categories = frozenset([
    'Lu', 'Ll', 'Lt', 'Lm', 'Lo', 'Nl', 'Mn', 'Mc', 'Nd', 'Pc'
    ])

valid_jsid_chars = ('$', '_')

# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# regex to find array[index] patterns
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

array_index_regex = re.compile(r'\[[0-9]+\]$')

has_valid_array_index = array_index_regex.search
replace_array_index = array_index_regex.sub

# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# javascript reserved words -- including keywords and null/boolean literals
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

is_reserved_js_word = frozenset([

    'abstract', 'boolean', 'break', 'byte', 'case', 'catch', 'char', 'class',
    'const', 'continue', 'debugger', 'default', 'delete', 'do', 'double',
    'else', 'enum', 'export', 'extends', 'false', 'final', 'finally', 'float',
    'for', 'function', 'goto', 'if', 'implements', 'import', 'in', 'instanceof',
    'int', 'interface', 'long', 'native', 'new', 'null', 'package', 'private',
    'protected', 'public', 'return', 'short', 'static', 'super', 'switch',
    'synchronized', 'this', 'throw', 'throws', 'transient', 'true', 'try',
    'typeof', 'var', 'void', 'volatile', 'while', 'with',

    # potentially reserved in a future version of the ES5 standard
    # 'let', 'yield'

    ]).__contains__

# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# the core validation functions
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

def is_valid_javascript_identifier(identifier, escape=r'\u', ucd_cat=category):
    """Return whether the given ``id`` is a valid Javascript identifier."""

    if not identifier:
        return False

    if not isinstance(identifier, unicode):
        try:
            identifier = unicode(identifier, 'utf-8')
        except UnicodeDecodeError:
            return False

    if escape in identifier:

        new = []; add_char = new.append
        split_id = identifier.split(escape)
        add_char(split_id.pop(0))

        for segment in split_id:
            if len(segment) < 4:
                return False
            try:
                add_char(unichr(int('0x' + segment[:4], 16)))
            except Exception:
                return False
            add_char(segment[4:])

        identifier = u''.join(new)

    if is_reserved_js_word(identifier):
        return False

    first_char = identifier[0]

    if not ((first_char in valid_jsid_chars) or
            (ucd_cat(first_char) in valid_jsid_categories_start)):
        return False

    for char in identifier[1:]:
        if not ((char in valid_jsid_chars) or
                (ucd_cat(char) in valid_jsid_categories)):
            return False

    return True


def is_valid_jsonp_callback_value(value):
    """Return whether the given ``value`` can be used as a JSON-P callback."""

    for identifier in value.split(u'.'):
        while '[' in identifier:
            if not has_valid_array_index(identifier):
                return False
            identifier = replace_array_index(u'', identifier)
        if not is_valid_javascript_identifier(identifier):
            return False

    return True

# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# test
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

def test():
    """
    The function ``is_valid_javascript_identifier`` validates a given identifier
    according to the latest draft of the ECMAScript 5 Specification:

      >>> is_valid_javascript_identifier('hello')
      True

      >>> is_valid_javascript_identifier('alert()')
      False

      >>> is_valid_javascript_identifier('a-b')
      False

      >>> is_valid_javascript_identifier('23foo')
      False

      >>> is_valid_javascript_identifier('foo23')
      True

      >>> is_valid_javascript_identifier('$210')
      True

      >>> is_valid_javascript_identifier(u'Stra\u00dfe')
      True

      >>> is_valid_javascript_identifier(r'\u0062') # u'b'
      True

      >>> is_valid_javascript_identifier(r'\u62')
      False

      >>> is_valid_javascript_identifier(r'\u0020')
      False

      >>> is_valid_javascript_identifier('_bar')
      True

      >>> is_valid_javascript_identifier('some_var')
      True

      >>> is_valid_javascript_identifier('$')
      True

    But ``is_valid_jsonp_callback_value`` is the function you want to use for
    validating JSON-P callback parameter values:

      >>> is_valid_jsonp_callback_value('somevar')
      True

      >>> is_valid_jsonp_callback_value('function')
      False

      >>> is_valid_jsonp_callback_value(' somevar')
      False

    It supports the possibility of '.' being present in the callback name, e.g.

      >>> is_valid_jsonp_callback_value('$.ajaxHandler')
      True

      >>> is_valid_jsonp_callback_value('$.23')
      False

    As well as the pattern of providing an array index lookup, e.g.

      >>> is_valid_jsonp_callback_value('array_of_functions[42]')
      True

      >>> is_valid_jsonp_callback_value('array_of_functions[42][1]')
      True

      >>> is_valid_jsonp_callback_value('$.ajaxHandler[42][1].foo')
      True

      >>> is_valid_jsonp_callback_value('array_of_functions[42]foo[1]')
      False

      >>> is_valid_jsonp_callback_value('array_of_functions[]')
      False

      >>> is_valid_jsonp_callback_value('array_of_functions["key"]')
      False

    Enjoy!

    """

if __name__ == '__main__':
    import doctest
    doctest.testmod()