The configuration framework consists of three mostly distinct parts:
* option variables
* the config reader
* the script level framework
I will describe the three elements in the following.
Internally, this commit also performs a range of changes to the Input
manager; it marks a lot of functions as const and introduces a new
ValueToVal method (which could in theory replace the already existing
one - it is a bit more powerful).
This also changes SerialTypes to have a subtype for Values, just as
Fields already have it; I think it was mostly an oversight that this was
not introduced from the beginning. This should not necessitate any code
changes for people already using SerialTypes.
option variable
===============
The option keyword allows variables to be specified as run-tine options.
Such variables cannot be changed using normal assignments. Instead, they
can be changed using Option::set. It is possible to "subscribe" to
options and be notified when an option value changes.
Change handlers can also change values before they are applied; this
gives them the opportunity to reject changes. Priorities can be
specified if there are several handlers for one option.
Example script:
option testbool: bool = T;
function option_changed(ID: string, new_value: bool): bool
{
print fmt("Value of %s changed from %s to %s", ID, testbool, new_value);
return new_value;
}
event bro_init()
{
print "Old value", testbool;
Option::set_change_handler("testbool", option_changed);
Option::set("testbool", F);
print "New value", testbool;
}
config reader
=============
The config reader provides a way to read configuration files back into
Bro. Most importantly it automatically converts values to the correct
types. This is important because it is at least inconvenient (and
sometimes near impossible) to perform the necessary type conversions in
Bro scripts themselves. This is especially true for sets/vectors.
Configuration generally look like this:
[option name][tab/spaces][new variable value]
so, for example:
testaddr 2607:f8b0:4005:801::200e
testinterval 60
testtime 1507321987
test_set a b c d erdbeerschnitzel
The reader uses the option name to look up the type that variable has in
the Bro core and automatically converts the value to the correct type.
Example script use:
type Idx: record {
option_name: string;
};
type Val: record {
option_val: string;
};
global currconfig: table[string] of string = table();
event InputConfig::new_value(name: string, source: string, id: string, value: any)
{
print id, value;
}
event bro_init()
{
Input::add_table([$reader=Input::READER_CONFIG, $source="../configfile", $name="configuration", $idx=Idx, $val=Val, $destination=currconfig, $want_record=F]);
}
Script-level config framework
=============================
The script-level framework ties these two features together and makes
them a bit more convenient to use. Configuration files can simply be
specified by placing them into Config::config_files. The framework also
creates a config.log that shows all value changes that took place.
Usage example:
redef Config::config_files += {configfile};
export {
option testbool : bool = F;
}
The file is now monitored for changes; when a change occurs the
respective option values are automatically updated and the value change
is written to config.log.
The changes are now a bit more succinct with less code changes required.
Behavior is tested a little bit more thoroughly and a memory problem
when reading incomplete lines was fixed. ReadHeader also always directly
returns if header reading failed.
Error messages now are back to what they were before the change, if the
new behavior is not used.
I also tweaked the documentation text a bit.
By default, the ASCII reader does not fail on errors anymore.
If there is a problem parsing a line, a reporter warning is
written and parsing continues. If the file is missing or can't
be read, the input thread just tries again on the next heartbeat.
Options have been added to recreate the previous behavior...
const InputAscii::fail_on_invalid_lines: bool;
and
const InputAscii::fail_on_file_problem: bool;
They are both set to `F` by default which makes the input readers
resilient to failure.
This change introduces error events for Table and Event readers. Users
can now specify an event that is called when an info, warning, or error
is emitted by their input reader. This can, e.g., be used to raise
notices in case errors occur when reading an important input stream.
Example:
event error_event(desc: Input::TableDescription, msg: string, level: Reporter::Level)
{
...
}
event bro_init()
{
Input::add_table([$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.
The text from these README files appears on the "Bro Script Packages"
page after building the documentation. The text for these was mostly just
copied from the existing docs.
Closes#1021.
* origin/topic/bernhard/input-update:
this event handler fails the unused-event-handlers test because it is a bit of a special case.
...and fix the event ordering issue. Dispatch != QueueEvent
add Terminate to input framework to prevent potential shutdown race-conditions.
fix warning.
fix stderr test. ls behaves differently on errors on linux...
small fixes.
linux does not have strnstr
and close only fds that are currently open (the logging framework really did not like that :) )
A bunch of more changes for the raw reader
make reading from stdout and stderr simultaneously work.
allow sending data to stdin of child process
Streaming reads from external commands work without blocking anything.
replace popen with fork and exec.
change raw reader to use basic c io instead of fdstream encapsulation class.
Thanks to git this merge was less troublesome that I was afraid it
would be. Not all tests pass yet though (and file hashes have changed
unfortunately).
Conflicts:
cmake
doc/scripts/DocSourcesList.cmake
scripts/base/init-bare.bro
scripts/base/protocols/ftp/main.bro
scripts/base/protocols/irc/dcc-send.bro
scripts/test-all-policy.bro
src/AnalyzerTags.h
src/CMakeLists.txt
src/analyzer/Analyzer.cc
src/analyzer/protocol/file/File.cc
src/analyzer/protocol/file/File.h
src/analyzer/protocol/http/HTTP.cc
src/analyzer/protocol/http/HTTP.h
src/analyzer/protocol/mime/MIME.cc
src/event.bif
src/main.cc
src/util-config.h.in
testing/btest/Baseline/coverage.bare-load-baseline/canonified_loaded_scripts.log
testing/btest/Baseline/coverage.default-load-baseline/canonified_loaded_scripts.log
testing/btest/Baseline/istate.events-ssl/receiver.http.log
testing/btest/Baseline/istate.events-ssl/sender.http.log
testing/btest/Baseline/istate.events/receiver.http.log
testing/btest/Baseline/istate.events/sender.http.log
Closes#997.
* topic/robin/sqlite-merge: (25 commits)
Fix to make sqlite test consistent, and updating coverage baselines
Avoid a CMake warning about 3rdparty looking like a number.
Fixing linker error.
and there is no has-reader.
make sqlite3 executable required and add test-cases for errors
Renaming src/external -> src/3rdparty
fix a few small rough edges (mostly comments that do no longer apply)
fix bug in input-manager regarding enums that a writer reads without 0-terminating the string
actually make sqlite work again (tests passed because the writer was not actually defined because of the define.)
add sqlite distribution.
fix warnings, update baselines, handle rotation
add sqlite tests and fix small vector/set escaping bugs
fix small bug with vectors and sets.
make work with newer AsciiFormatter.
start adding a different text for empty records for the sqlite writer.
no, you will never guess from where I copied this file...
make sqlite support more or less work for logging and input
make sqlite-writer more stable.
make it compile with new version of AsciiInputOutput
and adapt to AsciiInputOutput - seems to work...
...
Conflicts:
scripts/base/frameworks/input/__load__.bro
src/CMakeLists.txt
src/input.bif
src/input/Manager.cc
src/main.cc
src/types.bif
testing/btest/Baseline/coverage.bare-load-baseline/canonified_loaded_scripts.log
testing/btest/Baseline/coverage.default-load-baseline/canonified_loaded_scripts.log
* origin/topic/bernhard/sqlite:
fix a few small rough edges (mostly comments that do no longer apply)
fix bug in input-manager regarding enums that a writer reads without 0-terminating the string
actually make sqlite work again (tests passed because the writer was not actually defined because of the define.)
add sqlite distribution.
fix warnings, update baselines, handle rotation
add sqlite tests and fix small vector/set escaping bugs
fix small bug with vectors and sets.
make work with newer AsciiFormatter.
start adding a different text for empty records for the sqlite writer.
no, you will never guess from where I copied this file...
make sqlite support more or less work for logging and input
make sqlite-writer more stable.
make it compile with new version of AsciiInputOutput
and adapt to AsciiInputOutput - seems to work...
make it compile
add SQLite reader.
...adapt to new api...
now the writer supports tables and vectors.
basic sqlite writer seems to work.
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?)
* send end_of_data event for all kind of streams
* send process_finished event containing exit code of child process for executed programs
* move raw-tests to separate directory
* expose name of input stream to readers
* better handling of some error cases in raw reader
* new force_kill option for raw reader which SIGKILLs progesses on exit
The ordering of events how they arrive in the main loop is a bit peculiar at the moment.
The process_finished event arrives in scriptland before all of the other events, even though
it should be sent last. I have not yet fully figured that out.
* 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.
Sadly there also seems to be another deadlock issue which I am currently
not really able to figure out - on shutdown sometimes (too often) the main
thread + all sqlite threads wait for semaphores or mutexes.
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.
