In the past, we used a default canonifier, which removes everything that
looks like a timestamp from log files. The goal of this is to prevent
logs from changing, e.g., due to local system times ending up in log
files.
This, however, also has the side-effect of removing information that is
parsed from protocols which probably should be part of our tests.
There is at least one test (1999 certificates) where the entire test
output was essentially removed by the canonifier.
GH-4521 was similarly masked by this.
This commit changes the default canonifier, so that only the first
timestamp in a line is removed. This should skip timestamps that are
likely to change while keeping timestamps that are parsed
from protocol information.
A pass has been made over the tests, with some additional adjustments
for cases which require the old canonifier.
There are some cases in which we probably could go further and not
remove timestamps at all - that, however, seems like a follow-up
project.
This also updates all usages of the deprecated Val ctor to use
either IntervalVal, TimeVal, or DoubleVal ctors. The reason for
doing away with the old constructor is that using it with TYPE_INTERVAL
isn't strictly correct since there exists a more specific subclass,
IntervalVal, with overriden ValDescribe() method that ought to be used
to print such values in a more descriptive way.
This also installs symlinks from "zeek" and "bro-config" to a wrapper
script that prints a deprecation warning.
The btests pass, but this is still WIP. broctl renaming is still
missing.
#239
The configuration framework consists of three mostly distinct parts:
* option variables
* the config reader
* the script level framework
I will describe the three elements in the following.
Internally, this commit also performs a range of changes to the Input
manager; it marks a lot of functions as const and introduces a new
ValueToVal method (which could in theory replace the already existing
one - it is a bit more powerful).
This also changes SerialTypes to have a subtype for Values, just as
Fields already have it; I think it was mostly an oversight that this was
not introduced from the beginning. This should not necessitate any code
changes for people already using SerialTypes.
option variable
===============
The option keyword allows variables to be specified as run-tine options.
Such variables cannot be changed using normal assignments. Instead, they
can be changed using Option::set. It is possible to "subscribe" to
options and be notified when an option value changes.
Change handlers can also change values before they are applied; this
gives them the opportunity to reject changes. Priorities can be
specified if there are several handlers for one option.
Example script:
option testbool: bool = T;
function option_changed(ID: string, new_value: bool): bool
{
print fmt("Value of %s changed from %s to %s", ID, testbool, new_value);
return new_value;
}
event bro_init()
{
print "Old value", testbool;
Option::set_change_handler("testbool", option_changed);
Option::set("testbool", F);
print "New value", testbool;
}
config reader
=============
The config reader provides a way to read configuration files back into
Bro. Most importantly it automatically converts values to the correct
types. This is important because it is at least inconvenient (and
sometimes near impossible) to perform the necessary type conversions in
Bro scripts themselves. This is especially true for sets/vectors.
Configuration generally look like this:
[option name][tab/spaces][new variable value]
so, for example:
testaddr 2607:f8b0:4005:801::200e
testinterval 60
testtime 1507321987
test_set a b c d erdbeerschnitzel
The reader uses the option name to look up the type that variable has in
the Bro core and automatically converts the value to the correct type.
Example script use:
type Idx: record {
option_name: string;
};
type Val: record {
option_val: string;
};
global currconfig: table[string] of string = table();
event InputConfig::new_value(name: string, source: string, id: string, value: any)
{
print id, value;
}
event bro_init()
{
Input::add_table([$reader=Input::READER_CONFIG, $source="../configfile", $name="configuration", $idx=Idx, $val=Val, $destination=currconfig, $want_record=F]);
}
Script-level config framework
=============================
The script-level framework ties these two features together and makes
them a bit more convenient to use. Configuration files can simply be
specified by placing them into Config::config_files. The framework also
creates a config.log that shows all value changes that took place.
Usage example:
redef Config::config_files += {configfile};
export {
option testbool : bool = F;
}
The file is now monitored for changes; when a change occurs the
respective option values are automatically updated and the value change
is written to config.log.
