mod_admin_telnet: Pretty-print values returned from commands This makes it much nicer to inspect Prosody internals. Existing textual status messages from commands are not serialized to preserve existing behavior. Explicit serialization of configuration is kept in order to make it clear that returned strings are serialized strings that would look like what's actually in the config file. The default maxdepth of 2 seems ought to be an okay default, balanced between showing enough structure to continue exploring and DoS-ing your terminal. Thanks to Ge0rG for the motivation to finally do this.

local s_char = string.char;
local s_format = string.format;
local s_gsub = string.gsub;
local s_lower = string.lower;

local char_to_hex = {};
local hex_to_char = {};

do
	local char, hex;
	for i = 0,255 do
		char, hex = s_char(i), s_format("%02x", i);
		char_to_hex[char] = hex;
		hex_to_char[hex] = char;
	end
end

local function to(s)
	return (s_gsub(s, ".", char_to_hex));
end

local function from(s)
	return (s_gsub(s_lower(s), "%X*(%x%x)%X*", hex_to_char));
end

return { to = to, from = from }