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    Add ability to process posts with Lua scripts · 5fbc72c4
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    This adds the backend pieces (no interface yet) to configure Lua scripts
    that will be applied to topics and comments due to different events.
    Initially, it only supports running a script when a new topic or comment
    is posted. For example, here is a Lua script that would prepend a new
    topic's title with "[Text] " or "[Link] " depending on its type, as well
    as replace its tags with either "text" or "link":
    
    function on_topic_post (topic)
        if (topic.is_text_type) then
            topic.title = "[Text] " .. topic.title
            topic.tags = {"text"}
        elseif (topic.is_link_type) then
            topic.title = "[Link] " .. topic.title
            topic.tags = {"link"}
        end
    end
    
    There can be a global script as well as group-specific scripts, and the
    scripts are sandboxed, with limited access to data as well as being
    restricted to a subset of Lua's built-in functions. The Lua sandboxing
    code comes from Splash (https://github.com/scrapinghub/splash). It will
    need to be modified, but this commit keeps it unmodified so that future
    changes can be more easily tracked by comparing to the original state of
    the file.
    
    The sandboxing also includes some restrictions on number of instructions
    and memory usage, but this might be more effectively managed on the OS
    level. More research will still need to be done on security and resource
    restrictions before this feature can be safely opened to users.
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