While we support initializing records via coercion from an expression
list, e.g.,
local x: X = [$x1=1, $x2=2];
this can sometimes obscure the code to readers, e.g., when assigning to
value declared and typed elsewhere. The language runtime has a similar
overhead since instead of just constructing a known type it needs to
check at runtime that the coercion from the expression list is valid;
this can be slower than just writing the readible code in the first
place, see #4559.
With this patch we use explicit construction, e.g.,
local x = X($x1=1, $x2=2);
* topic/christian/telemetry-make-bifs-primary:
Telemetry framework: move BIFs to the primary-bif stage
Minor comment tweaks for init-frameworks-and-bifs.zeek
This stops invoking Telemetry::sync() via a scheduled event and instead
only invokes it on-demand. This makes metric collection network time
independent and lazier, too.
With Prometheus scrape requests being processed on Zeek's main thread
now, we can safely invoke the script layer Telemetry::sync() hook.
Closes#3947
This moves the Telemetry framework's BIF-defined functionalit from the
secondary-BIFs stage to the primary one. That is, this functionality is now
available from the end of init-bare.zeek, not only after the end of
init-frameworks-and-bifs.zeek.
This allows us to use script-layer telemetry in our Zeek's own code that get
pulled in during init-frameworks-and-bifs.
This change splits up the BIF features into functions, constants, and types,
because that's the granularity most workable in Func.cc and NetVar. It also now
defines the Telemetry::MetricsType enum once, not redundantly in BIFs and script
layer.
Due to subtle load ordering issues between the telemetry and cluster frameworks
this pushes the redef stage of Telemetry::metrics_port and address into
base/frameworks/telemetry/options.zeek, which is loaded sufficiently late in
init-frameworks-and-bifs.zeek to sidestep those issues. (When not doing this,
the effect is that the redef in telemetry/main.zeek doesn't yet find the
cluster-provided values, and Zeek does not end up listening on these ports.)
The need to add basic Zeek headers in script_opt/ZAM/ZBody.cc as a side-effect
of this is curious, but looks harmless.
Also includes baseline updates for the usual btests and adds a few doc strings.
With Cluster::Node$metrics_port being optional, there's not really
a need for the extra script. New rule, if a metrics_port is set, the
node will attempt to listen on it.
Users can still redef Telemetry::metrics_port *after*
base/frameworks/telemetry was loaded to change the port defined
in cluster-layout.zeek.
Adds base/frameworks/telemetry with wrappers around telemetry.bif
and updates telemetry/Manager to support collecting metrics from
script land.
Add policy/frameworks/telemetry/log for logging of metrics data
into a new telemetry.log and telemetry_histogram.log and add into
local.zeek by default.
