Changes:
- Changing semantics of the new_event() meta event: it's raised
only for events that have a handler defined. There are too many
checks in Bro that prevent events wo/ handler from being even
prepared to raise to do that differently.
- Adding test case.
* topic/robin/event-dumper:
New script misc/dump-events.bro, along with core support, that dumps events Bro is raising in an easily readable form.
Prettyfing Describe() for record types.
in an easily readable form.
This is for debugging purposes, obviously.
Example, including only SMTP events:
> bro -r smtp.trace misc/dump-events.bro DumpEvents::include=/smtp/
[...]
1254722768.219663 smtp_reply
[0] c: connection = [id=[orig_h=10.10.1.4, orig_p=1470/tcp, resp_h=74.53.140.153, [...]
[1] is_orig: bool = F
[2] code: count = 220
[3] cmd: string = >
[4] msg: string = xc90.websitewelcome.com ESMTP Exim 4.69 #1 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:05:54 -0500
[5] cont_resp: bool = T
1254722768.219663 smtp_reply
[0] c: connection = [id=[orig_h=10.10.1.4, orig_p=1470/tcp, resp_h=74.53.140.153, [...]
[1] is_orig: bool = F
[2] code: count = 220
[3] cmd: string = >
[4] msg: string = We do not authorize the use of this system to transport unsolicited,
[5] cont_resp: bool = T
[...]
Currently, a lot of interpreter runtime errors, such as an access to
an unset optional record field, cause Bro to abort with an internal
error. This is an experimental branch that turns such errors into
non-fatal runtime errors by internally raising exceptions. These are
caught upstream and processing continues afterwards.
For now, not many errors actually raise exceptions (the example above
does though). We'll need to go through them eventually and adapt the
current Internal() calls (and potentially others). More generally, at
some point we should cleanup the interpreter error handling (unifying
errors reported at parse- and runtime; and switching to exceptions for
all Expr/Stmt/Vals). But that's a larger change and left for later.
The main question for now is if this code is already helpful enough to
go into 2.0. It will quite likely prevent a number of crashes due to
script errors.
- Fixing a crash with an invalid pointer.
- Fixing a namespacing problem with is_ftp_data_conn() and check_relay_3().
- Fixing the do-we-have-an-event-handler-defined check.
Standard test-suite passes.
Seth, I think you can give it a try now ...
