luci-base: introduce luci.dispatcher.lookup()

[project/luci.git] / modules / luci-base / luasrc / dispatcher.lua

diff --git a/modules/luci-base/luasrc/dispatcher.lua b/modules/luci-base/luasrc/dispatcher.lua
index c93fd78..88f9440 100644 (file)
--- a/modules/luci-base/luasrc/dispatcher.lua
+++ b/modules/luci-base/luasrc/dispatcher.lua
@@ -658,6 +658,23 @@ function node(...)
        return c
 end
 
+function lookup(...)
+       local i, path = nil, {}
+       for i = 1, select('#', ...) do
+               local name, arg = nil, tostring(select(i, ...))
+               for name in arg:gmatch("[^/]+") do
+                       path[#path+1] = name
+               end
+       end
+
+       for i = #path, 1, -1 do
+               local node = context.treecache[table.concat(path, ".", 1, i)]
+               if node and (i == #path or node.leaf) then
+                       return node, build_url(unpack(path))
+               end
+       end
+end
+
 function _create_node(path)
        if #path == 0 then
                return context.tree