* refactor: move tracex outside of engine/netx
Consistently with https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/2121 and
https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/2115, we can now move tracex
outside of engine/netx. The main reason why this makes sense now
is that the package is now changed significantly from the one
that we imported from ooni/probe-engine.
We have improved its implementation, which had not been touched
significantly for quite some time, and converted it to unit
testing. I will document tomorrow some extra work I'd like to
do with this package but likely could not do $soon.
* go fmt
* regen tutorials
This diff modifies the system resolver to use a getaddrinf transport.
Obviously the transport is a fake, but its existence will allow us
to observe DNS events more naturally.
A lookup using the system resolver would be a ANY lookup that will
contain all the resolved IP addresses into the same response.
This change was also part of websteps-illustrated, albeit the way in
which I did it there was less clean than what we have here.
Ref issue: https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/2096
This diff creates a new package under netx called tracex that
contains everything we need to perform measurements using events
tracing and postprocessing (which is the technique with which
we implement most network experiments).
The general idea here is to (1) create a unique package out of
all of these packages; (2) clean up the code a bit (improve tests,
docs, apply more recent code patterns); (3) move the resulting
code as a toplevel package inside of internal.
Once this is done, netx can be further refactored to avoid
subpackages and we can search for more code to salvage/refactor.
See https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/2121
This diff introduces a new package called `./internal/archival`. This package collects data from `./internal/model` network interfaces (e.g., `Dialer`, `QUICDialer`, `HTTPTransport`), saves such data into an internal tabular data format suitable for on-line processing and analysis, and allows exporting data into the OONI data format.
The code for collecting and the internal tabular data formats are adapted from `measurex`. The code for formatting and exporting OONI data-format-compliant structures is adapted from `netx/archival`.
My original objective was to _also_ (1) fully replace `netx/archival` with this package and (2) adapt `measurex` to use this package rather than its own code. Both operations seem easily feasible because: (a) this code is `measurex` code without extensions that are `measurex` related, which will need to be added back as part of the process; (b) the API provided by this code allows for trivially converting from using `netx/archival` to using this code.
Yet, both changes should not be taken lightly. After implementing them, there's need to spend some time doing QA and ensuring all nettests work as intended. However, I am planning a release in the next two weeks, and this QA task is likely going to defer the release. For this reason, I have chosen to commit the work done so far into the tree and defer the second part of this refactoring for a later moment in time. (This explains why the title mentions "1/N").
On a more high-level perspective, it would also be beneficial, I guess, to explain _why_ I am doing these changes. There are two intertwined reasons. The first reason is that `netx/archival` has shortcomings deriving from its original https://github.com/ooni/netx legacy. The most relevant shortcoming is that it saves all kind of data into the same tabular structure named `Event`. This design choice is unfortunate because it does not allow one to apply data-type specific logic when processing the results. In turn, this choice results in complex processing code. Therefore, I believe that replacing the code with event-specific data structures is clearly an improvement in terms of code maintainability and would quite likely lead us to more confidently change and evolve the codebase.
The second reason why I would like to move forward these changes is to unify the codepaths used for measuring. At this point in time, we basically have two codepaths: `./internal/engine/netx` and `./internal/measurex`. They both have pros and cons and I don't think we want to rewrite whole experiments using `netx`. Rather, what we probably want is to gradually merge these two codepaths such that `netx` is a set of abstractions on top of `measurex` (which is more low-level and has a more-easily-testable design). Because saving events and generating an archival data format out of them consists of at least 50% of the complexity of both `netx` and `measurex`, it seems reasonable to unify this archival-related part of the two codebases as the first step.
At the highest level of abstraction, these changes are part of the train of changes which will eventually lead us to bless `websteps` as a first class citizen in OONI land. Because `websteps` requires different underlying primitives, I chose to develop these primitives from scratch rather than wrestling with `netx`, which used another model. The model used by `websteps` is that we perform each operation in isolation and immediately we save the results, while `netx` creates whole data structures and collects all the events happening via tracing. We believe the model used by `websteps` to be better because it does not require your code to figure out everything that happened after the measurement, which is a source of subtle bugs in the current implementation. So, when I started implementing websteps I extracted the bits of `netx` that could also be beneficial to `websteps` into a separate library, thus `netxlite` was born.
The reference issue describing merging the archival of `netx` and `measurex` is https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1957. As of this writing the issue still references the original plan, which I could not complete by the end of this Sprint, so I am going to adapt the text of the issue to only refer to what was done in here next. Of course, I also need follow-up issues.
This diff addresses another point of https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1956:
> - [ ] observe that we're still using a bunch of private interfaces for common interfaces such as the `Dialer`, so we can get rid of these private interfaces and always use the ones in `model`, which allows us to remove a bunch of legacy wrappers
Additional cleanups may still be possible. The more I cleanup, the more I see
there's extra legacy code we can dispose of (which seems good?).
## Checklist
- [x] I have read the [contribution guidelines](https://github.com/ooni/probe-cli/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
- [x] reference issue for this pull request: https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1885
- [x] related ooni/spec pull request: N/A
Location of the issue tracker: https://github.com/ooni/probe
## Description
This PR contains a set of changes to move important interfaces and data types into the `./internal/model` package.
The criteria for including an interface or data type in here is roughly that the type should be important and used by several packages. We are especially interested to move more interfaces here to increase modularity.
An additional side effect is that, by reading this package, one should be able to understand more quickly how different parts of the codebase interact with each other.
This is what I want to move in `internal/model`:
- [x] most important interfaces from `internal/netxlite`
- [x] everything that was previously part of `internal/engine/model`
- [x] mocks from `internal/netxlite/mocks` should also be moved in here as a subpackage
Reducing the errors is not done in a perfect way.
We have documented the most striking differences inside
https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1707#issuecomment-942283746 and
some attempts to improve the situation further inside
https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1707#issuecomment-942341255.
A better strategy for the future would be to introduce more
specific timeout errors, such as dns_timeout_error, etc.
More testing may be needed to further validate and compare the
old and the new TH, but this requires Jafar improvements to
more precisely simulate more complex censorship.
When preparing a tutorial for netxlite, I figured it is easier
to tell people "hey, this is the package you should use for all
low-level networking stuff" rather than introducing people to
a set of packages working together where some piece of functionality
is here and some other piece is there.
Part of https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1591
## Description
This PR continues the refactoring of `netx` under the following principles:
1. do not break the rest of the tree and do not engage in extensive tree-wide refactoring yet
2. move under `netxlite` clearly related subpackages (e.g., `iox`, `netxmocks`)
3. move into `internal/netxlite/internal` stuff that is clearly private of `netxlite`
4. hide implementation details in `netxlite` pending new factories
5. refactor `tls` code in `netxlite` to clearly separate `crypto/tls` code from `utls` code
After each commit, I run `go test -short -race ./...` locally. Each individual commit explains what it does. I will squash, but this operation will preserve the original commit titles, so this will give further insight on each step.
## Commits
* refactor: rename netxmocks -> netxlite/mocks
Part of https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1591
* refactor: rename quicx -> netxlite/quicx
See https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1591
* refactor: rename iox -> netxlite/iox
Regenerate sources and make sure the tests pass.
See https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1591.
* refactor(iox): move MockableReader to netxlite/mocks
See https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1591
* refactor(netxlite): generator is an implementation detail
See https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1591
* refactor(netxlite): separate tls and utls code
See https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1591
* refactor(netxlite): hide most types but keep old names as legacy
With this change we avoid breaking the rest of the tree, but we start
hiding some implementation details a bit. Factories will follow.
See https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1591
