The logic was template-based so far, which wasn't great because: (1)
conceptually, it models the Spicy types at the wrong layer (C++ rather
than HILTI types), and (2) stopped working with some recent Spicy
updates (which we have temporarily reverted in the meantime to keep
Zeek working).
The new code is based on HILTI's runtime type information and the
corresponding introspection API, pretty much like `spicy-dump` works
as well. This is the recommended approach for working with HILTI
values, and generally much cleaner.
This is on top of https://github.com/zeek/zeek/pull/4300.
This reflects the `spicy-plugin` code as of `d8c296b81cc2a11`.
In addition to moving the code into Zeek's source tree, this comes
with a couple small functional changes:
- `spicyz` no longer tries to infer if it's running from the build
directory. Instead `ZEEK_SPICY_LIBRARY` can be set to a custom
location. `zeek-set-path.sh` does that now.
- ZEEK_CONFIG can be set to change what `spicyz -z` print out. This is
primarily for backwards compatibility.
Some further notes on specifics:
- We raise the minimum Spicy version to 1.8 (i.e., current `main`
branch).
- Renamed the `compiler/` subdirectory to `spicyz` to avoid
include-path conflicts with the Spicy headers.
- In `cmake/`, the corresponding PR brings a new/extended version of
`FindZeek`, which Spicy analyzer packages need. We also now install
some of the files that the Spicy plugin used to bring for testing,
so that existing packages keep working.
- For now, this all remains backwards compatible with the current
`zkg` analyzer templates so that they work with both external and
integrated Spicy support. Later, once we don't need to support any
external Spicy plugin versions anymore, we can clean up the
templates as well.
- All the plugin's tests have moved into the standard test suite. They
are skipped if configure with `--disable-spicy`.
This holds off on adapting the new code further to Zeek's coding
conventions, so that it remains easier to maintain it in parallel to
the (now legacy) external plugin. We'll make a pass over the
formatting for (presumable) Zeek 6.1.
