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"""
Attacker Class
==============
"""

import collections
import logging
import multiprocessing as mp
import os
import queue
import random
import traceback

import torch
import tqdm

import textattack
from textattack.attack_results import (
    FailedAttackResult,
    MaximizedAttackResult,
    SkippedAttackResult,
    SuccessfulAttackResult,
)
from textattack.shared.utils import logger

from .attack import Attack
from .attack_args import AttackArgs


class Attacker:
    """Class for running attacks on a dataset with specified parameters. This
    class uses the :class:`~textattack.Attack` to actually run the attacks,
    while also providing useful features such as parallel processing,
    saving/resuming from a checkpint, logging to files and stdout.

    Args:
        attack (:class:`~textattack.Attack`):
            :class:`~textattack.Attack` used to actually carry out the attack.
        dataset (:class:`~textattack.datasets.Dataset`):
            Dataset to attack.
        attack_args (:class:`~textattack.AttackArgs`):
            Arguments for attacking the dataset. For default settings, look at the `AttackArgs` class.

    Example::

        >>> import textattack
        >>> import transformers

        >>> model = transformers.AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained("textattack/bert-base-uncased-imdb")
        >>> tokenizer = transformers.AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("textattack/bert-base-uncased-imdb")
        >>> model_wrapper = textattack.models.wrappers.HuggingFaceModelWrapper(model, tokenizer)

        >>> attack = textattack.attack_recipes.TextFoolerJin2019.build(model_wrapper)
        >>> dataset = textattack.datasets.HuggingFaceDataset("imdb", split="test")

        >>> # Attack 20 samples with CSV logging and checkpoint saved every 5 interval
        >>> attack_args = textattack.AttackArgs(
        ...     num_examples=20,
        ...     log_to_csv="log.csv",
        ...     checkpoint_interval=5,
        ...     checkpoint_dir="checkpoints",
        ...     disable_stdout=True
        ... )

        >>> attacker = textattack.Attacker(attack, dataset, attack_args)
        >>> attacker.attack_dataset()
    """

    def __init__(self, attack, dataset, attack_args=None):
        assert isinstance(
            attack, Attack
        ), f"`attack` argument must be of type `textattack.Attack`, but got type of `{type(attack)}`."
        assert isinstance(
            dataset, textattack.datasets.Dataset
        ), f"`dataset` must be of type `textattack.datasets.Dataset`, but got type `{type(dataset)}`."

        if attack_args:
            assert isinstance(
                attack_args, AttackArgs
            ), f"`attack_args` must be of type `textattack.AttackArgs`, but got type `{type(attack_args)}`."
        else:
            attack_args = AttackArgs()

        self.attack = attack
        self.dataset = dataset
        self.attack_args = attack_args
        self.attack_log_manager = None

        # This is to be set if loading from a checkpoint
        self._checkpoint = None

    def _get_worklist(self, start, end, num_examples, shuffle):
        if end - start < num_examples:
            logger.warn(
                f"Attempting to attack {num_examples} samples when only {end-start} are available."
            )
        candidates = list(range(start, end))
        if shuffle:
            random.shuffle(candidates)
        worklist = collections.deque(candidates[:num_examples])
        candidates = collections.deque(candidates[num_examples:])
        assert (len(worklist) + len(candidates)) == (end - start)
        return worklist, candidates

    def simple_attack(self, text, label):
        """Internal method that carries out attack.

        No parallel processing is involved.
        """
        if torch.cuda.is_available():
            self.attack.cuda_()

        example, ground_truth_output = text, label
        try:
            example = textattack.shared.AttackedText(example)
            if self.dataset.label_names is not None:
                example.attack_attrs["label_names"] = self.dataset.label_names
            try:
                result = self.attack.attack(example, ground_truth_output)
            except Exception as e:
                raise e
                # return
            if (
                isinstance(result, SkippedAttackResult) and self.attack_args.attack_n
            ) or (
                not isinstance(result, SuccessfulAttackResult)
                and self.attack_args.num_successful_examples
            ):
                return
            else:
                return result
        except KeyboardInterrupt as e:
            raise e

    def _attack(self):
        """Internal method that carries out attack.

        No parallel processing is involved.
        """
        if torch.cuda.is_available():
            self.attack.cuda_()

        if self._checkpoint:
            num_remaining_attacks = self._checkpoint.num_remaining_attacks
            worklist = self._checkpoint.worklist
            worklist_candidates = self._checkpoint.worklist_candidates
            logger.info(
                f"Recovered from checkpoint previously saved at {self._checkpoint.datetime}."
            )
        else:
            if self.attack_args.num_successful_examples:
                num_remaining_attacks = self.attack_args.num_successful_examples
                # We make `worklist` deque (linked-list) for easy pop and append.
                # Candidates are other samples we can attack if we need more samples.
                worklist, worklist_candidates = self._get_worklist(
                    self.attack_args.num_examples_offset,
                    len(self.dataset),
                    self.attack_args.num_successful_examples,
                    self.attack_args.shuffle,
                )
            else:
                num_remaining_attacks = self.attack_args.num_examples
                # We make `worklist` deque (linked-list) for easy pop and append.
                # Candidates are other samples we can attack if we need more samples.
                worklist, worklist_candidates = self._get_worklist(
                    self.attack_args.num_examples_offset,
                    len(self.dataset),
                    self.attack_args.num_examples,
                    self.attack_args.shuffle,
                )

        if not self.attack_args.silent:
            print(self.attack, "\n")

        pbar = tqdm.tqdm(total=num_remaining_attacks, smoothing=0, dynamic_ncols=True)
        if self._checkpoint:
            num_results = self._checkpoint.results_count
            num_failures = self._checkpoint.num_failed_attacks
            num_skipped = self._checkpoint.num_skipped_attacks
            num_successes = self._checkpoint.num_successful_attacks
        else:
            num_results = 0
            num_failures = 0
            num_skipped = 0
            num_successes = 0

        sample_exhaustion_warned = False
        while worklist:
            idx = worklist.popleft()
            try:
                example, ground_truth_output = self.dataset[idx]
            except IndexError:
                continue
            example = textattack.shared.AttackedText(example)
            if self.dataset.label_names is not None:
                example.attack_attrs["label_names"] = self.dataset.label_names
            try:
                result = self.attack.attack(example, ground_truth_output)
            except Exception as e:
                raise e
            if (
                isinstance(result, SkippedAttackResult) and self.attack_args.attack_n
            ) or (
                not isinstance(result, SuccessfulAttackResult)
                and self.attack_args.num_successful_examples
            ):
                if worklist_candidates:
                    next_sample = worklist_candidates.popleft()
                    worklist.append(next_sample)
                else:
                    if not sample_exhaustion_warned:
                        logger.warn("Ran out of samples to attack!")
                        sample_exhaustion_warned = True
            else:
                pbar.update(1)

            self.attack_log_manager.log_result(result)
            if not self.attack_args.disable_stdout and not self.attack_args.silent:
                print("\n")
            num_results += 1

            if isinstance(result, SkippedAttackResult):
                num_skipped += 1
            if isinstance(result, (SuccessfulAttackResult, MaximizedAttackResult)):
                num_successes += 1
            if isinstance(result, FailedAttackResult):
                num_failures += 1
            pbar.set_description(
                f"[Succeeded / Failed / Skipped / Total] {num_successes} / {num_failures} / {num_skipped} / {num_results}"
            )

            if (
                self.attack_args.checkpoint_interval
                and len(self.attack_log_manager.results)
                % self.attack_args.checkpoint_interval
                == 0
            ):
                new_checkpoint = textattack.shared.AttackCheckpoint(
                    self.attack_args,
                    self.attack_log_manager,
                    worklist,
                    worklist_candidates,
                )
                new_checkpoint.save()
                self.attack_log_manager.flush()

        pbar.close()
        print()
        # Enable summary stdout
        if not self.attack_args.silent and self.attack_args.disable_stdout:
            self.attack_log_manager.enable_stdout()

        if self.attack_args.enable_advance_metrics:
            self.attack_log_manager.enable_advance_metrics = True

        self.attack_log_manager.log_summary()
        self.attack_log_manager.flush()
        print()

    def _attack_parallel(self):
        pytorch_multiprocessing_workaround()

        if self._checkpoint:
            num_remaining_attacks = self._checkpoint.num_remaining_attacks
            worklist = self._checkpoint.worklist
            worklist_candidates = self._checkpoint.worklist_candidates
            logger.info(
                f"Recovered from checkpoint previously saved at {self._checkpoint.datetime}."
            )
        else:
            if self.attack_args.num_successful_examples:
                num_remaining_attacks = self.attack_args.num_successful_examples
                # We make `worklist` deque (linked-list) for easy pop and append.
                # Candidates are other samples we can attack if we need more samples.
                worklist, worklist_candidates = self._get_worklist(
                    self.attack_args.num_examples_offset,
                    len(self.dataset),
                    self.attack_args.num_successful_examples,
                    self.attack_args.shuffle,
                )
            else:
                num_remaining_attacks = self.attack_args.num_examples
                # We make `worklist` deque (linked-list) for easy pop and append.
                # Candidates are other samples we can attack if we need more samples.
                worklist, worklist_candidates = self._get_worklist(
                    self.attack_args.num_examples_offset,
                    len(self.dataset),
                    self.attack_args.num_examples,
                    self.attack_args.shuffle,
                )

        in_queue = torch.multiprocessing.Queue()
        out_queue = torch.multiprocessing.Queue()
        for i in worklist:
            try:
                example, ground_truth_output = self.dataset[i]
                example = textattack.shared.AttackedText(example)
                if self.dataset.label_names is not None:
                    example.attack_attrs["label_names"] = self.dataset.label_names
                in_queue.put((i, example, ground_truth_output))
            except IndexError:
                raise IndexError(
                    f"Tried to access element at {i} in dataset of size {len(self.dataset)}."
                )

        # We reserve the first GPU for coordinating workers.
        num_gpus = torch.cuda.device_count()
        num_workers = self.attack_args.num_workers_per_device * num_gpus
        logger.info(f"Running {num_workers} worker(s) on {num_gpus} GPU(s).")

        # Lock for synchronization
        lock = mp.Lock()

        # We move Attacker (and its components) to CPU b/c we don't want models using wrong GPU in worker processes.
        self.attack.cpu_()
        torch.cuda.empty_cache()

        # Start workers.
        worker_pool = torch.multiprocessing.Pool(
            num_workers,
            attack_from_queue,
            (
                self.attack,
                self.attack_args,
                num_gpus,
                mp.Value("i", 1, lock=False),
                lock,
                in_queue,
                out_queue,
            ),
        )

        # Log results asynchronously and update progress bar.
        if self._checkpoint:
            num_results = self._checkpoint.results_count
            num_failures = self._checkpoint.num_failed_attacks
            num_skipped = self._checkpoint.num_skipped_attacks
            num_successes = self._checkpoint.num_successful_attacks
        else:
            num_results = 0
            num_failures = 0
            num_skipped = 0
            num_successes = 0

        logger.info(f"Worklist size: {len(worklist)}")
        logger.info(f"Worklist candidate size: {len(worklist_candidates)}")

        sample_exhaustion_warned = False
        pbar = tqdm.tqdm(total=num_remaining_attacks, smoothing=0, dynamic_ncols=True)
        while worklist:
            idx, result = out_queue.get(block=True)
            worklist.remove(idx)

            if isinstance(result, tuple) and isinstance(result[0], Exception):
                logger.error(
                    f'Exception encountered for input "{self.dataset[idx][0]}".'
                )
                error_trace = result[1]
                logger.error(error_trace)
                in_queue.close()
                in_queue.join_thread()
                out_queue.close()
                out_queue.join_thread()
                worker_pool.terminate()
                worker_pool.join()
                return
            elif (
                isinstance(result, SkippedAttackResult) and self.attack_args.attack_n
            ) or (
                not isinstance(result, SuccessfulAttackResult)
                and self.attack_args.num_successful_examples
            ):
                if worklist_candidates:
                    next_sample = worklist_candidates.popleft()
                    example, ground_truth_output = self.dataset[next_sample]
                    example = textattack.shared.AttackedText(example)
                    if self.dataset.label_names is not None:
                        example.attack_attrs["label_names"] = self.dataset.label_names
                    worklist.append(next_sample)
                    in_queue.put((next_sample, example, ground_truth_output))
                else:
                    if not sample_exhaustion_warned:
                        logger.warn("Ran out of samples to attack!")
                        sample_exhaustion_warned = True
            else:
                pbar.update()

            self.attack_log_manager.log_result(result)
            num_results += 1

            if isinstance(result, SkippedAttackResult):
                num_skipped += 1
            if isinstance(result, (SuccessfulAttackResult, MaximizedAttackResult)):
                num_successes += 1
            if isinstance(result, FailedAttackResult):
                num_failures += 1
            pbar.set_description(
                f"[Succeeded / Failed / Skipped / Total] {num_successes} / {num_failures} / {num_skipped} / {num_results}"
            )

            if (
                self.attack_args.checkpoint_interval
                and len(self.attack_log_manager.results)
                % self.attack_args.checkpoint_interval
                == 0
            ):
                new_checkpoint = textattack.shared.AttackCheckpoint(
                    self.attack_args,
                    self.attack_log_manager,
                    worklist,
                    worklist_candidates,
                )
                new_checkpoint.save()
                self.attack_log_manager.flush()

        # Send sentinel values to worker processes
        for _ in range(num_workers):
            in_queue.put(("END", "END", "END"))
        worker_pool.close()
        worker_pool.join()

        pbar.close()
        print()
        # Enable summary stdout.
        if not self.attack_args.silent and self.attack_args.disable_stdout:
            self.attack_log_manager.enable_stdout()

        if self.attack_args.enable_advance_metrics:
            self.attack_log_manager.enable_advance_metrics = True

        self.attack_log_manager.log_summary()
        self.attack_log_manager.flush()
        print()

    def attack_dataset(self):
        """Attack the dataset.

        Returns:
            :obj:`list[AttackResult]` - List of :class:`~textattack.attack_results.AttackResult` obtained after attacking the given dataset..
        """
        if self.attack_args.silent:
            logger.setLevel(logging.ERROR)

        if self.attack_args.query_budget:
            self.attack.goal_function.query_budget = self.attack_args.query_budget

        if not self.attack_log_manager:
            self.attack_log_manager = AttackArgs.create_loggers_from_args(
                self.attack_args
            )

        textattack.shared.utils.set_seed(self.attack_args.random_seed)
        if self.dataset.shuffled and self.attack_args.checkpoint_interval:
            # Not allowed b/c we cannot recover order of shuffled data
            raise ValueError(
                "Cannot use `--checkpoint-interval` with dataset that has been internally shuffled."
            )

        self.attack_args.num_examples = (
            len(self.dataset)
            if self.attack_args.num_examples == -1
            else self.attack_args.num_examples
        )
        if self.attack_args.parallel:
            if torch.cuda.device_count() == 0:
                raise Exception(
                    "Found no GPU on your system. To run attacks in parallel, GPU is required."
                )
            self._attack_parallel()
        else:
            self._attack()

        if self.attack_args.silent:
            logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)

        return self.attack_log_manager.results

    def update_attack_args(self, **kwargs):
        """To update any attack args, pass the new argument as keyword argument
        to this function.

        Examples::

        >>> attacker = #some instance of Attacker
        >>> # To switch to parallel mode and increase checkpoint interval from 100 to 500
        >>> attacker.update_attack_args(parallel=True, checkpoint_interval=500)
        """
        for k in kwargs:
            if hasattr(self.attack_args, k):
                self.attack_args.k = kwargs[k]
            else:
                raise ValueError(f"`textattack.AttackArgs` does not have field {k}.")

    @classmethod
    def from_checkpoint(cls, attack, dataset, checkpoint):
        """Resume attacking from a saved checkpoint. Attacker and dataset must
        be recovered by the user again, while attack args are loaded from the
        saved checkpoint.

        Args:
            attack (:class:`~textattack.Attack`):
                Attack object for carrying out the attack.
            dataset (:class:`~textattack.datasets.Dataset`):
                Dataset to attack.
            checkpoint (:obj:`Union[str, :class:`~textattack.shared.AttackChecpoint`]`):
                Path of saved checkpoint or the actual saved checkpoint.
        """
        assert isinstance(
            checkpoint, (str, textattack.shared.AttackCheckpoint)
        ), f"`checkpoint` must be of type `str` or `textattack.shared.AttackCheckpoint`, but got type `{type(checkpoint)}`."

        if isinstance(checkpoint, str):
            checkpoint = textattack.shared.AttackCheckpoint.load(checkpoint)
        attacker = cls(attack, dataset, checkpoint.attack_args)
        attacker.attack_log_manager = checkpoint.attack_log_manager
        attacker._checkpoint = checkpoint
        return attacker

    @staticmethod
    def attack_interactive(attack):
        print(attack, "\n")

        print("Running in interactive mode")
        print("----------------------------")

        while True:
            print('Enter a sentence to attack or "q" to quit:')
            text = input()

            if text == "q":
                break

            if not text:
                continue

            print("Attacking...")

            example = textattack.shared.attacked_text.AttackedText(text)
            output = attack.goal_function.get_output(example)
            result = attack.attack(example, output)
            print(result.__str__(color_method="ansi") + "\n")


#
# Helper Methods for multiprocess attacks
#
def pytorch_multiprocessing_workaround():
    # This is a fix for a known bug
    try:
        torch.multiprocessing.set_start_method("spawn", force=True)
        torch.multiprocessing.set_sharing_strategy("file_system")
    except RuntimeError:
        pass


def set_env_variables(gpu_id):
    # Disable tensorflow logs, except in the case of an error.
    if "TF_CPP_MIN_LOG_LEVEL" not in os.environ:
        os.environ["TF_CPP_MIN_LOG_LEVEL"] = "3"

    # Set sharing strategy to file_system to avoid file descriptor leaks
    torch.multiprocessing.set_sharing_strategy("file_system")

    # Only use one GPU, if we have one.
    # For Tensorflow
    # TODO: Using USE with `--parallel` raises similar issue as https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/38518#
    os.environ["CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES"] = str(gpu_id)
    # For PyTorch
    torch.cuda.set_device(gpu_id)

    # Fix TensorFlow GPU memory growth
    try:
        import tensorflow as tf

        gpus = tf.config.experimental.list_physical_devices("GPU")
        if gpus:
            try:
                # Currently, memory growth needs to be the same across GPUs
                gpu = gpus[gpu_id]
                tf.config.experimental.set_visible_devices(gpu, "GPU")
                tf.config.experimental.set_memory_growth(gpu, True)
            except RuntimeError as e:
                print(e)
    except ModuleNotFoundError:
        pass


def attack_from_queue(
    attack, attack_args, num_gpus, first_to_start, lock, in_queue, out_queue
):
    assert isinstance(
        attack, Attack
    ), f"`attack` must be of type `Attack`, but got type `{type(attack)}`."

    gpu_id = (torch.multiprocessing.current_process()._identity[0] - 1) % num_gpus
    set_env_variables(gpu_id)
    textattack.shared.utils.set_seed(attack_args.random_seed)
    if torch.multiprocessing.current_process()._identity[0] > 1:
        logging.disable()

    attack.cuda_()

    # Simple non-synchronized check to see if it's the first process to reach this point.
    # This let us avoid waiting for lock.
    if bool(first_to_start.value):
        # If it's first process to reach this step, we first try to acquire the lock to update the value.
        with lock:
            # Because another process could have changed `first_to_start=False` while we wait, we check again.
            if bool(first_to_start.value):
                first_to_start.value = 0
                if not attack_args.silent:
                    print(attack, "\n")

    while True:
        try:
            i, example, ground_truth_output = in_queue.get(timeout=5)
            if i == "END" and example == "END" and ground_truth_output == "END":
                # End process when sentinel value is received
                break
            else:
                result = attack.attack(example, ground_truth_output)
                out_queue.put((i, result))
        except Exception as e:
            if isinstance(e, queue.Empty):
                continue
            else:
                out_queue.put((i, (e, traceback.format_exc())))