Also removing the -l command-line option as that can now be done at
the script-level.
A couple tests fail now that use -l. Leaving that until we have
script-level replacement.
* origin/topic/robin/reporting:
Syslog BiF now goes through the reporter as well.
Avoiding infinite loops when an error message handlers triggers errors itself.
Renaming the Logger to Reporter.
Overhauling the internal reporting of messages to the user.
Updating a bunch of tests/baselines as well.
Conflicts:
aux/broccoli
policy.old/alarm.bro
policy/all.bro
policy/bro.init
policy/frameworks/notice/weird.bro
policy/notice.bro
src/SSL-binpac.cc
src/bro.bif
src/main.cc
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?
filter. (Seth Hall and Robin Sommer)
- Merging in the patch from #264, which provides support for mixed
VLAN and MPLS traffic.
- Changing Bro's default filter from being built dynamically to being
a static "ip or not ip". To get the old behaviour back (i.e., the
dynamically built filter), redef "all_packets" to false.
- print-filter.bro now always prints the filter that Bro is actually
using, even if overriden from the command line.
- When Bro is given a PRNG seed, it now uses its own internal random
number generator that produces consistent results across sytems.
Note that this internal generator isn't very good, so it should only
be used for testing purposes.
- The BTest configuration now sets the environemnt variables TZ=UTC
and LANG=C to ensure consistent results.
- Fixing doc markup in logging.bro.
- Updating baselines.
Removing everything related to trace rewriting.
(I wasn't too careful in ensuring that I catch everything in the
scripts; Seth is working on those anyway.)
(Merging by cherry-picking the corresponding commit, as the branch was
accidentally made off of the logging stuff).
(now actually commiting all the files)
This change is actually two-fold:
a) bif's now accept module XYZ; statements and module::ID for
function, const, event, enum, etc. declartation
b) Added C++-namespaces to variables, functions, etc. that are declared
in bif but accessed from C++
This required some (lightweight) re-factoring of the C++ codes.
Note, event's don't have their own C++ namespace yet, since this
would require a rather huge re-factoring.
Compiles and passes test suite.
New namespace feature not tested yet.
Documentation to follow.
