typeparser module

binaryninja.typeparser.BasicTypeParserResult(...)
binaryninja.typeparser.CoreTypeParser([handle])
binaryninja.typeparser.ParsedType(name, ...)
binaryninja.typeparser.QualifiedNameTypeAndId(...)
binaryninja.typeparser.TypeParser([handle])
binaryninja.typeparser.TypeParserError(...)
binaryninja.typeparser.TypeParserResult(...)

class BasicTypeParserResult(types: Dict[ForwardRef('types.QualifiedName'), ForwardRef('types.Type')], variables: Dict[ForwardRef('types.QualifiedName'), ForwardRef('types.Type')], functions: Dict[ForwardRef('types.QualifiedName'), ForwardRef('types.Type')])

Bases: object

Parameters:

• types (Dict[QualifiedName, Type]) –

• variables (Dict[QualifiedName, Type]) –

• functions (Dict[QualifiedName, Type]) –

functions: Dict[QualifiedName, Type]

types: Dict[QualifiedName, Type]

variables: Dict[QualifiedName, Type]

class CoreTypeParser(handle=None)

Bases: TypeParser

get_option_text(option: TypeParserOption, value: str) → str | None

Get the string representation of an option for passing to parse_type_*

Parameters:

• option (TypeParserOption) – Option type

• value (str) – Option value

Returns:

A string representing the option if the parser supports it, otherwise None

Return type:

str | None

parse_type_string(source: str, platform: Platform, existing_types: List[QualifiedNameTypeAndId] | None = None) → Tuple[Tuple[Iterable[str | bytes] | str | QualifiedName, Type] | None, List[TypeParserError]]

Parse a single type and name from a string containing their definition.

Parameters:

• source (str) – Source code to parse

• platform (Platform) – Platform to assume the types are relevant to

• existing_types (List[QualifiedNameTypeAndId] | None) – Optional map of all existing types to use for parsing context

Returns:

A tuple of (result, errors) where result is a tuple of (type, name) or None of there was a fatal error.

Return type:

Tuple[Tuple[Iterable[str | bytes] | str | QualifiedName, Type] | None, List[TypeParserError]]

parse_types_from_source(source: str, file_name: str, platform: Platform, existing_types: List[QualifiedNameTypeAndId] | None = None, options: List[str] | None = None, include_dirs: List[str] | None = None, auto_type_source: str = '') → Tuple[TypeParserResult | None, List[TypeParserError]]

Parse an entire block of source into types, variables, and functions

Parameters:

• source (str) – Source code to parse

• file_name (str) – Name of the file containing the source (optional: exists on disk)

• platform (Platform) – Platform to assume the types are relevant to

• existing_types (List[QualifiedNameTypeAndId] | None) – Optional map of all existing types to use for parsing context

• options (List[str] | None) – Optional string arguments to pass as options, e.g. command line arguments

• include_dirs (List[str] | None) – Optional list of directories to include in the header search path

• auto_type_source (str) – Optional source of types if used for automatically generated types

Returns:

A tuple of (result, errors) where the result is None if there was a fatal error

Return type:

Tuple[TypeParserResult | None, List[TypeParserError]]

preprocess_source(source: str, file_name: str, platform: Platform, existing_types: List[QualifiedNameTypeAndId] | None = None, options: List[str] | None = None, include_dirs: List[str] | None = None) → Tuple[str | None, List[TypeParserError]]

Preprocess a block of source, returning the source that would be parsed

Parameters:

• source (str) – Source code to process

• file_name (str) – Name of the file containing the source (does not need to exist on disk)

• platform (Platform) – Platform to assume the source is relevant to

• existing_types (List[QualifiedNameTypeAndId] | None) – Optional map of all existing types to use for parsing context

• options (List[str] | None) – Optional string arguments to pass as options, e.g. command line arguments

• include_dirs (List[str] | None) – Optional list of directories to include in the header search path

Returns:

A tuple of (preproccessed source, errors), where the preproccessed source is None if there was a fatal error.

Return type:

Tuple[str | None, List[TypeParserError]]

class ParsedType(name: 'types.QualifiedNameType', type: 'types.Type', is_user: bool)

Bases: object

Parameters:

• name (Iterable[str | bytes] | str | QualifiedName) –

• type (Type) –

• is_user (bool) –

is_user: bool

name: Iterable[str | bytes] | str | QualifiedName

type: Type

class QualifiedNameTypeAndId(name: 'types.QualifiedNameType', id: str, type: 'types.Type')

Bases: object

Parameters:

• name (Iterable[str | bytes] | str | QualifiedName) –

• id (str) –

• type (Type) –

id: str

name: Iterable[str | bytes] | str | QualifiedName

type: Type

class TypeParser(handle=None)

Bases: object

get_option_text(option: TypeParserOption, value: str) → str | None

Get the string representation of an option for passing to parse_type_*

Parameters:

• option (TypeParserOption) – Option type

• value (str) – Option value

Returns:

A string representing the option if the parser supports it, otherwise None

Return type:

str | None

parse_type_string(source: str, platform: Platform, existing_types: List[QualifiedNameTypeAndId] | None = None) → Tuple[Tuple[Iterable[str | bytes] | str | QualifiedName, Type] | None, List[TypeParserError]]

Parse a single type and name from a string containing their definition.

Parameters:

• source (str) – Source code to parse

• platform (Platform) – Platform to assume the types are relevant to

• existing_types (List[QualifiedNameTypeAndId] | None) – Optional map of all existing types to use for parsing context

Returns:

A tuple of (result, errors) where result is a tuple of (type, name) or None of there was a fatal error.

Return type:

Tuple[Tuple[Iterable[str | bytes] | str | QualifiedName, Type] | None, List[TypeParserError]]

parse_types_from_source(source: str, file_name: str, platform: Platform, existing_types: List[QualifiedNameTypeAndId] | None = None, options: List[str] | None = None, include_dirs: List[str] | None = None, auto_type_source: str = '') → Tuple[TypeParserResult | None, List[TypeParserError]]

Parse an entire block of source into types, variables, and functions

Parameters:

• source (str) – Source code to parse

• file_name (str) – Name of the file containing the source (optional: exists on disk)

• platform (Platform) – Platform to assume the types are relevant to

• existing_types (List[QualifiedNameTypeAndId] | None) – Optional map of all existing types to use for parsing context

• options (List[str] | None) – Optional string arguments to pass as options, e.g. command line arguments

• include_dirs (List[str] | None) – Optional list of directories to include in the header search path

• auto_type_source (str) – Optional source of types if used for automatically generated types

Returns:

A tuple of (result, errors) where the result is None if there was a fatal error

Return type:

Tuple[TypeParserResult | None, List[TypeParserError]]

preprocess_source(source: str, file_name: str, platform: Platform, existing_types: List[QualifiedNameTypeAndId] | None = None, options: List[str] | None = None, include_dirs: List[str] | None = None) → Tuple[str | None, List[TypeParserError]]

Preprocess a block of source, returning the source that would be parsed

Parameters:

• source (str) – Source code to process

• file_name (str) – Name of the file containing the source (does not need to exist on disk)

• platform (Platform) – Platform to assume the source is relevant to

• existing_types (List[QualifiedNameTypeAndId] | None) – Optional map of all existing types to use for parsing context

• options (List[str] | None) – Optional string arguments to pass as options, e.g. command line arguments

• include_dirs (List[str] | None) – Optional list of directories to include in the header search path

Returns:

A tuple of (preproccessed source, errors), where the preproccessed source is None if there was a fatal error.

Return type:

Tuple[str | None, List[TypeParserError]]

register()

Register a custom parser with the API

name = None

class TypeParserError(severity: TypeParserErrorSeverity, message: str, file_name: str, line: int, column: int)

Bases: object

Parameters:

• severity (TypeParserErrorSeverity) –

• message (str) –

• file_name (str) –

• line (int) –

• column (int) –

column: int

file_name: str

line: int

message: str

severity: TypeParserErrorSeverity

class TypeParserResult(types: List[ParsedType], variables: List[ParsedType], functions: List[ParsedType])

Bases: object

Parameters:

• types (List[ParsedType]) –

• variables (List[ParsedType]) –

• functions (List[ParsedType]) –

functions: List[ParsedType]

types: List[ParsedType]

variables: List[ParsedType]

preprocess_source(source: str, filename: str = None, include_dirs: List[str] | None = None) → Tuple[str | None, str]

preprocess_source run the C preprocessor on the given source or source filename.

Parameters:

• source (str) – source to pre-process

• filename (str) – optional filename to pre-process

• include_dirs (list(str)) – list of string directories to use as include directories.

Returns:

returns a tuple of (preprocessed_source, error_string)

Return type:

tuple(str,str)

Example:

>>> source = "#define TEN 10\nint x[TEN];\n"
>>> preprocess_source(source)
('#line 1 "input"\n\n#line 2 "input"\n int x [ 10 ] ;\n', '')
>>>

Deprecated since version 3.4.4271: Use TypeParser.preprocess_source instead.

to_bytes(field)