in.
No more manual includes to pull them in.
(It doesn't quite work fully automatically yet for some bifs that need
script-level types defined, like the input and logging frameworks.
They still do a manual "@load foo.bif" in their main.bro to get the
order right. It's a bit tricky to fix that and would probably need
splitting main.bro into two parts; not sure that's worth it.)
- 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).
Also moving src/analyzer.bif to src/analyzer/analyzer.bif, along with
the infrastructure to build/incude bif code at other locations.
We should generally move to having per-directory CMakeLists.txt. I'll
convert the others over later.
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?)
All tests pass with one exception: some Broxygen tests are broken
because dpd_config doesn't exist anymore. Need to update the mechanism
for auto-documenting well-known ports.
This is a larger internal change that moves the analyzer
infrastructure to a more flexible model where the available analyzers
don't need to be hardcoded at compile time anymore. While currently
they actually still are, this will in the future enable external
analyzer plugins. For now, it does already add the capability to
dynamically enable/disable analyzers from script-land, replacing the
old Analyzer::Available() methods.
There are three major parts going into this:
- A new plugin infrastructure in src/plugin. This is independent
of analyzers and will eventually support plugins for other parts
of Bro as well (think: readers and writers). The goal is that
plugins can be alternatively compiled in statically or loadead
dynamically at runtime from a shared library. While the latter
isn't there yet, there'll be almost no code change for a plugin
to make it dynamic later (hopefully :)
- New analyzer infrastructure in src/analyzer. I've moved a number
of analyzer-related classes here, including Analyzer and DPM;
the latter now renamed to Analyzer::Manager. More will move here
later. Currently, there's only one plugin here, which provides
*all* existing analyzers. We can modularize this further in the
future (or not).
- A new script interface in base/framework/analyzer. I think that
this will eventually replace the dpm framework, but for now
that's still there as well, though some parts have moved over.
I've also remove the dpd_config table; ports are now configured via
the analyzer framework. For exmaple, for SSH:
const ports = { 22/tcp } &redef;
event bro_init() &priority=5
{
...
Analyzer::register_for_ports(Analyzer::ANALYZER_SSH, ports);
}
As you can see, the old ANALYZER_SSH constants have more into an enum
in the Analyzer namespace.
This is all hardly tested right now, and not everything works yet.
There's also a lot more cleanup to do (moving more classes around;
removing no longer used functionality; documenting script and C++
interfaces; regression tests). But it seems to generally work with a
small trace at least.
The debug stream "dpm" shows more about the loaded/enabled analyzers.
A new option -N lists loaded plugins and what they provide (including
those compiled in statically; i.e., right now it outputs all the
analyzers).
This is all not cast-in-stone yet, for some things we need to see if
they make sense this way. Feedback welcome.
