Walter Cai

14 papers A 3B 1Journal 6Unranked 3
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
ACM Trans. Database Syst.
Kyle Deeds, Dan Suciu, Magdalena Balazinska, Walter Cai
2023 A conf
ICDT
Kyle Deeds, Dan Suciu, Magda Balazinska, Walter Cai
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Kyle Deeds, Dan Suciu, Magda Balazinska, Walter Cai
2022 B conf
IEEE Big Data
Adel Ardalan, Derek Paulsen, Amanpreet Singh Saini, Walter Cai, AnHai Doan
2021 J jnl
Proc. VLDB Endow.
Dong He, Maureen Daum, Walter Cai, Magdalena Balazinska
2021
Walter Cai
2021 J jnl
Proc. VLDB Endow.
Walter Cai, Philip A. Bernstein, Wentao Wu, Badrish Chandramouli
2021 J jnl
CoRR
Adel Ardalan, Derek Paulsen, Amanpreet Singh Saini, Walter Cai, AnHai Doan
2020 A conf
CIDR
Laurel J. Orr, Samuel K. Ainsworth, Kevin Jamieson, Walter Cai, Magdalena Balazinska, Dan Suciu
2019 J jnl
CoRR
Laurel J. Orr, Samuel K. Ainsworth, Walter Cai, Kevin Jamieson, Magda Balazinska, Dan Suciu
2019 conf
SIGMOD Conference
Walter Cai, Magdalena Balazinska, Dan Suciu
2018 conf
SIGMOD Conference
Walter Cai
2009 conf
DMIN
Walter Cai, David C. Anastasiu, Mingji Xia, Byron J. Gao
2009 A conf
CIKM
Byron J. Gao, Mingji Xia, Walter Cai, David C. Anastasiu
redb/extractors/decompiler/apk/apktool_wrapper.py
← Index redb/extractors/decompiler/apk/apktool_wrapper.py python
"""Apktool disassembler subprocess wrapper.

Manages apktool subprocess execution for smali disassembly,
following the CAPA extractor subprocess pattern.
"""

import os
import signal
import subprocess
from typing import List, Optional


class ApktoolDisassembler:
    """Subprocess wrapper for apktool smali disassembly."""

    def __init__(
        self, apktool_path: str = None, timeout: int = None, log=None
    ):
        self.apktool_path = apktool_path or os.getenv("APKTOOL_PATH", "apktool")
        self.timeout = timeout or int(os.getenv("APKTOOL_TIMEOUT", "120"))
        self.log = log

    def disassemble(self, apk_path: str, output_dir: str) -> bool:
        """Run apktool disassembly on an APK file.

        Returns True on success, False on failure.
        """
        cmd = [
            self.apktool_path,
            "d",
            "--no-res",
            "--force",
            "--output", output_dir,
            apk_path,
        ]

        try:
            process = subprocess.Popen(
                cmd,
                stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
                stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
                text=True,
                preexec_fn=os.setsid,
            )

            try:
                stdout, stderr = process.communicate(timeout=self.timeout)
                if process.returncode != 0:
                    if self.log:
                        self.log.warning(
                            f"apktool returned non-zero exit code {process.returncode}: "
                            f"{stderr[:500] if stderr else 'no stderr'}"
                        )
                    return False
                return True

            except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
                if self.log:
                    self.log.error(
                        f"apktool timed out after {self.timeout}s"
                    )
                try:
                    os.killpg(os.getpgid(process.pid), signal.SIGTERM)
                    process.wait(timeout=3)
                except (ProcessLookupError, subprocess.TimeoutExpired):
                    try:
                        os.killpg(os.getpgid(process.pid), signal.SIGKILL)
                    except ProcessLookupError:
                        pass
                return False

        except FileNotFoundError:
            if self.log:
                self.log.error(
                    f"apktool not found at '{self.apktool_path}'. "
                    "Install apktool or set APKTOOL_PATH env var."
                )
            return False
        except Exception as e:
            if self.log:
                self.log.error(f"apktool execution error: {e}")
            return False

    def get_smali_directories(self, output_dir: str) -> List[str]:
        """Return paths to all smali output directories.

        Handles multi-DEX: smali/, smali_classes2/, smali_classes3/, etc.
        """
        smali_dirs = []
        if not os.path.isdir(output_dir):
            return smali_dirs

        for entry in sorted(os.listdir(output_dir)):
            if entry == "smali" or entry.startswith("smali_classes"):
                full_path = os.path.join(output_dir, entry)
                if os.path.isdir(full_path):
                    smali_dirs.append(full_path)

        return smali_dirs