importing variables in compiled package
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Hi all,
I have some matlab code from which I've extracted the important variables to a separate file that I called config.m...
%comment comment comment a = 1; %comment comment comment b = 2; ...
When I start up my code, this file is "sourced" by running config.m to load the parameters.
This has worked well for me while test/debugging. Now I want to compile the code, but keep the same configuration so I can tweak all the parameters for each run. One way around this I have found is to load my config file line by line, and use the eval function to get the variables into scope. Is this breaking any sort of license agreement if I distribute it? If so, are there any more valid ways to accomplish the same thing?
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Walter Roberson
2011-6-14
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You are correct that it would be a license violation, as your executable would be providing the same functionality as the MATLAB command line by way of the user providing a config.m file that happened to include an input / eval loop.
You are responsible for ensuring that your program is secure against these kinds of hacks.
This does not rule out the use of eval (though it would not be recommended as there are clear alternatives such as dynamic structure fields), but it does mean that you have to scan the input for validity instead of blindly eval()'ing it. And if you are going to scan it for validity, you might as well use a data file.
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Fangjun Jiang
2011-6-14
What do you mean by "license violation"? You can't deploy an application with any m-file in it? I've seen many third party tools that are developed based on Matlab environment and included sorce .m files.
Walter Roberson
2011-6-14
This is a situation in which the users are going to be providing the .m file; if security measures are not taken, then they would have access to MATLAB as a whole, in violation of the license term that the deployed package must not substantially provide functionality equivalent to MATLAB.
Richard
2011-6-14
Richard
2011-6-14
Walter Roberson
2011-6-14
Note that some functions do not require arguments -- for example, "now" and "eps" .
I suspect you could reduce it down to checking whether the lines are of the form
name = numericvalue
and validate the name via ismember() against the set of names you specifically want to allow to be set.
Fangjun Jiang
2011-6-13
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I think you are doing perfectly fine regarding license or good practice. You can put your parameters in a M-script or a M-function. Just make sure you deal with the base workspace or function workspace properly.
Chirag Gupta
2011-6-13
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Why don't you save the variables in a MAT file and just include the file when compiling it! Better way would be for your compiled application to have an interface that allows you to specify a MAT file( using uigetfile ). Then you could save multiple config params in separate MAT files and just choose the desired one at runtime
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Fangjun Jiang
2011-6-14
One of the benefits using M-file is that it is already a text file. It's easy to view and modify in non-Matlab environment.
Chirag Gupta
2011-6-14
Agreed, but then the correct way (in my opinion) should be to save it as a text file and use MATLAB file i/o to read the values. Saving it as a MATLAB file (M) doesn't seem like the right approach!
Richard
2011-6-14
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