The changes are now a bit more succinct with less code changes required.
Behavior is tested a little bit more thoroughly and a memory problem
when reading incomplete lines was fixed. ReadHeader also always directly
returns if header reading failed.
Error messages now are back to what they were before the change, if the
new behavior is not used.
I also tweaked the documentation text a bit.
Calling Error() in an input reader now automatically will disable the
reader and return a failure in the Update/Heartbeat calls.
Also adds more tests.
Addresses BIT-1181
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
- Generally increased the time allowed before they timeout.
- For tests w/ a clear termination condition (most of them), made
timeouts result in a test failure.
- Seemed to be a race in some cases between tests generating output and
the input reader stream getting removed/closed, so moved stream removal
closer to termination time, when all output should be available.