Venkatraman Balasubramanian

12 papers Journal 8Unranked 4
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2001 J jnl
Inf. Syst.
Venkatraman Balasubramanian, Michael Bieber, Tomás Isakowitz
1999 J jnl
ACM Comput. Surv.
Michael Bieber, Harri Oinas-Kukkonen, Venkatraman Balasubramanian
1998 conf
HICSS (6)
Venkatraman Balasubramanian, Murray Turoff, David Ullman
1997 J jnl
Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud.
Michael Bieber, Fabio Vitali, Helen Ashman, Venkatraman Balasubramanian, Harri Oinas-Kukkonen
1997 conf
HICSS (4)
Michael Bieber, Fabio Vitali, Helen Ashman, Harri Oinas-Kukkonen, Venkatraman Balasubramanian
1997 conf
Hypertext
Helen Ashman, Venkatraman Balasubramanian, Gary Hill, John B. Smith, Mark Bernstein, Peter J. Nürnberg
1996 J jnl
SIGWEB Newsl.
Venkatraman Balasubramanian, Helen Ashman
1995 J jnl
Commun. ACM
Venkatraman Balasubramanian, Bang Min Ma, Joonhee Yoo
1995 J jnl
SIGWEB Newsl.
Venkatraman Balasubramanian
1995 conf
HICSS (3)
Venkatraman Balasubramanian, Murray Turoff
1994 J jnl
SIGWEB Newsl.
Venkatraman Balasubramanian, Helen Ashman
1994 J jnl
SIGWEB Newsl.
Venkatraman Balasubramanian, Helen Ashman
redb/extractor_registry.py
← Index redb/extractor_registry.py python
"""
Extractor registry with lazy loading by file type.

Groups extractors by file type (pe, elf, macho, apk) and only imports
the relevant group when that file type is first encountered. This avoids
loading heavy dependencies (pefile, lief, androguard, etc.) into workers
that don't need them.
"""
import importlib
import logging

logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

# Registry: group name -> list of (module_path, class_names)
_REGISTRY = {
    "pe": [
        ("redb.extractors.pe_extractors", [
            "PEFeaturesExtractor",
            "PEImportExtractor",
            "PEResourceExtractor",
            "PEOverlayExtractor",
            "PESectionExtractor",
            "PESignatureExtractor",
            "PEExtraFindings",
            "PEInconstistencyTestsExtractor",
            "PEDotNetExtractor",
        ]),
    ],
    "elf": [
        ("redb.extractors.elf_extractors", [
            "ELFFeaturesExtractor",
            "ELFSegmentExtractor",
            "ELFSectionExtractor",
            "ELFDependencyExtractor",
            "ELFSymbolExtractor",
            "ELFImportExtractor",
            "ELFExportExtractor",
            "ELFRelocationExtractor",
            "ELFNotesExtractor",
        ]),
    ],
    "macho": [
        ("redb.extractors.macho_extractors", [
            "MachOFeaturesExtractor",
            "MachOSegmentExtractor",
            "MachOImportExtractor",
            "MachOExportExtractor",
            "MachODylibExtractor",
            "MachOSignatureExtractor",
        ]),
    ],
    "apk": [
        ("redb.extractors.apk_extractors", [
            "APKFeaturesExtractor",
            "APKManifestExtractor",
            "APKPermissionsExtractor",
            "APKSignatureExtractor",
            "APKDexExtractor",
            "APKResourceExtractor",
            "APKNativeLibExtractor",
            "APKInconsistencyTestsExtractor",
        ]),
        ("redb.extractors.decompiler.DecompileAPK", [
            "DecompileAPK",
        ]),
    ],
    "js": [
        ("redb.extractors.js_extractors", [
            "JSFeaturesExtractor",
            "JSSuspiciousAPIsExtractor",
            "JSStringsExtractor",
            "JSDeobfuscationExtractor",
            "JSContentExtractor",
        ]),
    ],
}

# Map filetype labels (from Magika) to registry group names
FILETYPE_TO_GROUP = {
    "pebin": "pe",
    "elf": "elf",
    "macho": "macho",
    "apk": "apk",
    "javascript": "js",
}

# Cache: group name -> {class_name: class}
_group_cache = {}


def _load_group(group_name):
    """Import all extractors for a group. Cached after first call."""
    if group_name in _group_cache:
        return _group_cache[group_name]

    logger.debug(f"Loading extractor group: {group_name}")

    # Suppress androguard logging before importing APK extractors
    if group_name == "apk":
        from loguru import logger as loguru_logger
        loguru_logger.disable("androguard")

    classes = {}
    for module_path, class_names in _REGISTRY[group_name]:
        mod = importlib.import_module(module_path)
        for name in class_names:
            classes[name] = getattr(mod, name)

    _group_cache[group_name] = classes
    return classes


def get_filetype_modules(filetype):
    """Get the list of format-specific extractor classes for a filetype.

    Returns only analysis extractors (excludes decompilers like DecompileAPK).
    """
    group = FILETYPE_TO_GROUP.get(filetype)
    if not group:
        return []
    classes = _load_group(group)
    return [cls for name, cls in classes.items() if not name.startswith("Decompile")]


def get_extractor_class(name):
    """Look up a single extractor class by name across all groups.

    Checks cached groups first, then loads groups on demand.
    """
    # Check already-loaded groups first
    for group_classes in _group_cache.values():
        if name in group_classes:
            return group_classes[name]

    # Search all groups (triggers lazy loading)
    for group_name in _REGISTRY:
        classes = _load_group(group_name)
        if name in classes:
            return classes[name]

    return None