Includes:
- Cleanup of the plugin API, in particular generally changing
const char* to std::string
- Renaming environment variable BRO_PLUGINS to BRO_PLUGIN_PATH,
defaulting to <prefix>/lib/bro/plugins
- Reworking how dynamic plugins are searched and activated. See
doc/devel/plugins.rst for details.
- New @load-plugin directive to explicitly activate a plugin
- Support for Darwin. (Linux untested right now)
- The init-plugin updates come with support for "make test", "make
sdist", and "make bdist" (see how-to).
- Test updates.
Notes: The new hook mechanism, which allows plugins to hook into Bro's
core a well-defined points, is still essentially untested.
- Move more functionality into base class.
- Remove cctors and assignment operators (weren't actually needed anymore)
- Switch from const char* to std::string.
lookup_hostname("localhost") occassionally timed out (after allowed 10
secs) when running test suite on some systems. Not sure why, but
changed to use the Exec module for when block conditions instead as the
scope of the test doesn't depend on a particular type of condition, it
just needs something that will work reliably/quickly.
* origin/topic/seth/ie11-software-parsing:
Updated software framework to support parsing IE11 user-agent strings.
Fix the irc_reply event for several server message types.
BIT-1104 #merged
- Internals: move type alias table to private static BroType member.
- Sphinx extension: now uses absolute path to bro binary.
- reST ouput formatting: remove "param" from function desriptions
and change package overview docs so script link+summaries render
consistently.
- First:
Due to architectural constraints, it is very hard for the
input framework to handle optional records. For an optional record,
either the whole record has to be missing, or all non-optional elements
of the record have to be defined. This information is not available
to input readers after the records have been unrolled into the threading
types.
Behavior so far was to treat optional records like they are non-optional,
without warning. The patch changes this behavior to emit an error on stream-
creation (during type-checking) and refusing to open the file. I think this
is a better idea - the behavior so far was undocumented and unintuitive.
- Second:
For table and event streams, reader backend creation was done very early,
before actually checking if all arguments are valid. Initialization is moved
after the checks now - this makes a number of delete statements unnecessary.
Also - I suspect threads of failed input reader instances were not deleted
until shutdown
- Third:
Add a couple more consistency checks, e.g. checking if the destination value
of a table has the same type as we need. We did not check everything in all
instances, instead we just assigned the things without caring (which works,
but is not really desirable).
This change also exposed a few bugs in other testcases where table definitions
were wrong (did not respect $want_record)
- Fourth:
Improve error messages and write testcases for all error messages (I think).
If the input framework was used to read event streams and
those streams contained records with more than one field, not all
elements of the threading Values were cleaned up.
The reason for this is, that the SendEventStreamEvent function
returned the number of record elements in the outmost record
instead of the number of unrolled elements in the whole vector.
This number is later used to determine how many objects to delete.
Also - add a whole bunch of leak checks for the input framework
that would have caught that and should cover quite a number of
use-cases.
The dump-events.bro generates output that would show in the Broxygen
all-script tests. Suppressing that manually in the test for lack of a
better idea.
Omission of the low index defaults to 0:
s = "12345"; s[:3] == "123"
Omission of the high index defaults to length of the string:
s = "12345"; s[3:] == "45"
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.
