This change introduces error events for Table and Event readers. Users
can now specify an event that is called when an info, warning, or error
is emitted by their input reader. This can, e.g., be used to raise
notices in case errors occur when reading an important input stream.
Example:
event error_event(desc: Input::TableDescription, msg: string, level: Reporter::Level)
{
...
}
event bro_init()
{
Input::add_table([$source="a", $error_ev=error_event, ...]);
}
For the moment, this converts all errors in the Asciiformatter into
warnings (to show that they are non-fatal) - the Reader itself also has
to throw an Error to show that a fatal error occurred and processing
will be abort.
It might be nicer to change this and require readers to mark fatal
errors as such when throwing them.
Addresses BIT-1181
Fixed more typos, reformatted the code examples to remove the
horizontal scroll bars, and removed some redundant sections that were
just outdated copies of information in the auto-generated reference
docs.
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?)
* origin/topic/bernhard/input-logging-commmon-functions:
add the last of Robins suggestions (separate info-struct for constructors).
port memory leak fix from master
harmonize function naming
move AsciiInputOutput over to threading
and thinking about it, ascii-io doesn't need the separator
change constructors
and factor stuff out the input framework too.
factor out ascii input/output.
std::string accessors to escape_sequence functionality
intermediate commit - it has been over a month since I touched this...
I cleaned up the AsciiInputOutput class somewhat, including renaming
it to AsciiFormatter, renaming some of its methods, and turning the
static methods into members for consistency.
Closes#929.
more cases.
It will now not only fire after table-reads have been completed,
but also after the last event of a whole-file-read (or whole-db-read, etc.).
The interface also has been extended a bit to allow readers to
directly fire the event should they so choose. This allows the
event to be fired in direct table-setting/event-sending modes,
which was previously not possible.
* origin/topic/bernhard/input-allow_invalid_types:
to be sure - add a small assertion
add an option to the input framework that allows the user to chose to not die upon encountering files/functions.
That's the last feature for 2.1!
* origin/topic/bernhard/reader-info:
fix small bug - now configuration actually is passed.
add mode to readerinfo - no need to have it separately everywhere anymore.
introduce reader-info struct analogous to writer-info.
Introduce support for a table of key/value pairs with further configuration options, with the same userinterface as in the logging interface.
make writer-info work when debugging is enabled
Conflicts:
testing/btest/Baseline/scripts.base.frameworks.input.event/out
testing/btest/Baseline/scripts.base.frameworks.input.executeraw/out
testing/btest/Baseline/scripts.base.frameworks.input.raw/out
testing/btest/Baseline/scripts.base.frameworks.input.rereadraw/out
testing/btest/Baseline/scripts.base.frameworks.input.tableevent/out
Closes#841.
compiles, not really tested.
basic test works 70% of the time, coredumps in the other 30 - but was not easy to debug on a first glance (most interestingly the crash happens in the logging framework - I wonder how that works).
Other tests are not adjusted to the new interface yet.
* change internal reader interface again
* remove some quite embarassing bugs that must have been in the interface for rather long
* add different read methods to script & internal interface (like normal, streaming, etc). Not implemented in ascii reader yet.
But: there are still a few places where I am sure that there are race conditions & memory leaks & I do not really like the current interface & I have to add a few more messages between the front and backend.
But - it works :)
