This is essentially the code from the dynamic-plugin branch except for
some pieces that I have split out into separate, earlier commits.
I'm going to updatre things in this branch going forward.
We now explicitly mark plugins as static vs dynamic (though we don't
have the latter yet) instead of piggy-backing that on the version.
Also, versions are now ignored for static plugins.
Adding one todo back in as that's something we indeed still need to do.
* origin/topic/jsiwek/plugins-cleanup:
Fix various documentation/typos; remove a few superfluous things.
This is for older CMakes which don't understand object libraries yet.
We auto-generate a file at the top-level that references all the
global plugin objects. Once they are referenced, the linker includes
them into the final executable and their ctors run to register them
with the plugin manager.
By default this is on. Once we can require more recent CMakes, we can
turn it off (and remove) in src/CMakeLists.txt.
- Introducing analyzer::<protocol> namespaces.
- Moving protocol-specific events out of events.bif into analyzer/protocol/<protocol>/events.bif
- Moving ARP over (even though it's not an actual analyzer).
- Moving NetFlow over (even though it's not an actual analyzer).
- Moving MIME over (even though it's not an actual analyzer).
I've used the opportunity to also cleanup DPD's expect_connection()
infrastructure, and renamed that bif to schedule_analyzer(), which
seems more appropiate. One can now also schedule more than one
analyzer per connection.
TODOs:
- "make install" is probably broken.
- Broxygen is probably broken for plugin-defined events.
- event groups are broken (do we want to keep them?)
- parallel btest is broken, but I'm not sure why ...
(tests all pass individually, but lots of error when running
in parallel; must be related to *.bif restructuring).
- Document API for src/plugin/*
- Document API for src/analyzer/Analyzer.h
- Document API for scripts/base/frameworks/analyzer
There's now a new directory "src/protocols/", and the plan is for each
protocol analyzer to eventually have its own subdirectory in there
that contains everything it defines (C++/pac/bif). The infrastructure
to make that happen is in place, and two analyzers have been
converted to the new model, HTTP and SSL; there's no further
HTTP/SSL-specific code anywhere else in the core anymore (I believe :-)
Further changes:
- -N lists available plugins, -NN lists more details on what these
plugins provide (analyzers, bif elements). (The latter does not
work for analyzers that haven't been converted yet).
- *.bif.bro files now go into scripts/base/bif/; and
scripts/base/bif/plugins/ for bif files provided by plugins.
- I've factored out the bifcl/binpac CMake magic from
src/CMakeLists.txt to cmake/{BifCl,Binpac}
- There's a new cmake/BroPlugin that contains magic to allow
plugins to have a simple CMakeLists.txt. The hope is that
eventually the same CMakeLists.txt can be used for compiling a
plugin either statically or dynamically.
- bifcl has a new option -c that changes the code it generates so
that it can be used with a plugin.
TODOs:
- "make install" is probably broken.
- Broxygen is probably broken for plugin-defined events.
- event groups are broken (do we want to keep them?)
