This commit marks (hopefully) ever one-parameter constructor as explicit.
It also uses override in (hopefully) all circumstances where a virtual
method is overridden.
There are a very few other minor changes - most of them were necessary
to get everything to compile (like one additional constructor). In one
case I changed an implicit operation to an explicit string conversion -
I think the automatically chosen conversion was much more convoluted.
This took longer than I want to admit but not as long as I feared :)
Case blocks in switch statements now must end in a break, return, or
fallthrough statement to give best mix of safety, readability, and
flexibility.
The new fallthrough keyword explicitly allows control to be passed to the
next case block in a switch statement.
Addresses #754.
Case bodies now don't require a "break" statement to prevent fallthrough
to case bodies below. Empty case bodies generate an error message at
parse-time to help indicate the absence of automatic fallthrough; to
associate multiple values with a case, use "case 1, 2:" instead of
"case 1: case 2:".
They behave like C-style switches except case labels can be comprised
of multiple literal constants delimited by commas. Only atomic types
are allowed for now. Case label bodies that don't execute a "return"
or "break" statement will fall through to subsequent cases. A default
case label is allowed.
The return value of the call is an implicit boolean value of T if all
hook handlers ran, or F if one hook handler exited as a result of a
break statement and potentially prevented other handlers from running.
Scripts don't need to declare hooks with an explicit return type of bool
(internally, that's assumed), and any values given to (optional) return
statements in handler definitions are just ignored.
Addresses #918.
Use the BROFILER_FILE environment variable to point to a file in
which Stmt usage statistics from Bro script-layer can be output.
This should be able to be used to check Bro script coverage that
that e.g. the entire test suite covers.
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?
