Add a lexical parser for MySQL grants to the MySQL module. Change the behavior of the grant-checker to use this new method by default and fallback to the strict method if it fails.

salt/modules/mysql.py

@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ import sys
 # Import salt libs
 import salt.utils
 
+#import shlex which should be distributed with Python
+import shlex
+
 # Import third party libs
 try:
     import MySQLdb
@@ -148,6 +151,59 @@ def _connect(**kwargs):
     return dbc
 
 
+def _grant_to_tokens(grant):
+    '''
+
+    This should correspond fairly closely to the YAML rendering of a mysql_grants state which comes out
+    as follows:
+
+     OrderedDict([('whatever_identifier', OrderedDict([('mysql_grants.present',
+     [OrderedDict([('database', 'testdb.*')]), OrderedDict([('user', 'testuser')]),
+     OrderedDict([('grant', 'ALTER, SELECT, LOCK TABLES')]), OrderedDict([('host', 'localhost')])])]))])
+
+    :param grant: An un-parsed MySQL GRANT statement str, like
+        "GRANT SELECT, ALTER, LOCK TABLES ON `testdb`.* TO 'testuser'@'localhost'"
+    :return:
+        A Python dict with the following keys/values:
+            - user: MySQL User
+            - host: MySQL host
+            - grant: [grant1, grant2] (ala SELECT, USAGE, etc)
+            - database: MySQL DB
+    '''
+    exploded_grant = shlex.split(grant)
+    grant_tokens = []
+    position_tracker = 1  # Skip the initial 'GRANT' word token
+    phrase = 'grants'
+
+    for token in exploded_grant[position_tracker:]:
+        if phrase == 'grants':
+            cleaned_token = token.rstrip(',')
+            grant_tokens.append(cleaned_token)
+            position_tracker += 1
+
+        if phrase == 'db':
+            database = token.strip('`')
+            phrase = 'tables'
+
+        if phrase == 'user':
+            user, host = token.split('@')
+
+        if token == 'ON':
+            phrase = 'db'
+
+        if token == 'TO':
+            phrase = 'user'
+
+    return {
+        'user':     user,
+        'host':     host,
+        'grant':    grant_tokens,
+        'database': database,
+
+    }
+
+
+
 def query(database, query, **connection_args):
     '''
     Run an arbitrary SQL query and return the results or
@@ -1080,6 +1136,21 @@ def grant_exists(grant,
     )
 
     grants = user_grants(user, host, **connection_args)
+
+    for grant in grants:
+        try:
+            target_tokens = None
+            if not target_tokens: # Avoid the overhead of re-calc in loop
+                target_tokens = _grant_to_tokens(target)
+            grant_tokens = _grant_to_tokens(grant)
+            if grant_tokens['user'] == target_tokens['user'] and \
+                grant_tokens['database'] == target_tokens['database'] and \
+                grant_tokens['host'] == target_tokens['host']:
+                    if set(grant_tokens['grant']) == set(target_tokens['grant']):
+                        return True
+
+        except Exception as exc:  # Fallback to strict parsing
+            log.debug("OH NO CAUGHT EXCEPTION: {0}".format(exc))
             if grants is not False and target in grants:
                 log.debug('Grant exists.')
                 return True
@@ -1088,6 +1159,7 @@ def grant_exists(grant,
     return False
 
 
+
 def grant_add(grant,
               database,
               user,