Replaced some with InternalWarning or InternalAnalyzerError, the later
being a new method which signals the analyzer to not process further
input. Some usages I just removed if they didn't make sense or clearly
couldn't happen. Also did some minor refactors of related code while
reviewing/exploring ways to get rid of InternalError usages.
Also, for TCP content file write failures there's a new event:
"contents_file_write_failure".
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?)
The Logger class is now in charge of reporting all errors, warnings,
informational messages, weirds, and syslogs. All other components
route their messages through the global bro_logger singleton.
The Logger class comes with these reporting methods:
void Message(const char* fmt, ...);
void Warning(const char* fmt, ...);
void Error(const char* fmt, ...);
void FatalError(const char* fmt, ...); // Terminate Bro.
void Weird(const char* name);
[ .. some more Weird() variants ... ]
void Syslog(const char* fmt, ...);
void InternalWarning(const char* fmt, ...);
void InternalError(const char* fmt, ...); // Terminates Bro.
See Logger.h for more information on these.
Generally, the reporting now works as follows:
- All non-fatal message are reported in one of two ways:
(1) At startup (i.e., before we start processing packets),
they are logged to stderr.
(2) During processing, they turn into events:
event log_message%(msg: string, location: string%);
event log_warning%(msg: string, location: string%);
event log_error%(msg: string, location: string%);
The script level can then handle them as desired.
If we don't have an event handler, we fall back to
reporting on stderr.
- All fatal errors are logged to stderr and Bro terminates
immediately.
- Syslog(msg) directly syslogs, but doesn't do anything else.
The three main types of messages can also be generated on the
scripting layer via new Log::* bifs:
Log::error(msg: string);
Log::warning(msg: string);
Log::message(msg: string);
These pass through the bro_logger as well and thus are handled in the
same way. Their output includes location information.
More changes:
- Removed the alarm statement and the alarm_hook event.
- Adapted lots of locations to use the bro_logger, including some
of the messages that were previously either just written to
stdout, or even funneled through the alarm mechanism.
- No distinction anymore between Error() and RunTime(). There's
now only one class of errors; the line was quite blurred already
anyway.
- util.h: all the error()/warn()/message()/run_time()/pinpoint()
functions are gone. Use the bro_logger instead now.
- Script errors are formatted a bit differently due to the
changes. What I've seen so far looks ok to me, but let me know
if there's something odd.
Notes:
- The default handlers for the new log_* events are just dummy
implementations for now since we need to integrate all this into
the new scripts anyway.
- I'm not too happy with the names of the Logger class and its
instance bro_logger. We now have a LogMgr as well, which makes
this all a bit confusing. But I didn't have a good idea for
better names so I stuck with them for now.
Perhaps we should merge Logger and LogMgr?
