The residual censorship algorithm prevents dnscheck for checking the
same endpoint again in a short time frame under the assumption that a
previous measurement could have caused residual censorship.
In https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/2234, we mentioned we probably
wanted to disable this algorithm because we didn't want to slow down
dnscheck too much and because we didn't detect this alleged source of
blocking in our previous measurements.
It turns out the algorithm was already disabled. I probably did this
after we published the paper on DNS censorship to make measurements
overall a bit faster.
So, just introduce a new extension field to the measurement telling us
that the residual censorship algorithm is disabled.
It's not super useful except as for the fact that the next time I
read the source code I notice that the algorithm is disabled.
This diff forward ports b606494db8a9293384efaf5c33a88601f6e1e2a6
to the main development branch.
Dnscheck is emitting progress and the experiment controller is
also emitting progress. This messes up the progress bar.
See https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/2058#issuecomment-1141638067
* 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 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 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?).
Since https://github.com/ooni/probe-cli/pull/527, if an experiment
returns an error, the corresponding measurement is not submitted since
the semantics of returning an error is that something fundamental
went wrong (e.g., we could not parse the input URL).
This diff ensures that all experiments only return and error when
something fundamental was wrong and return nil otherwise.
Reference issue: https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1808.
## 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
* refactor(atomicx): move outside the engine package
After merging probe-engine into probe-cli, my impression is that we have
too much unnecessary nesting of packages in this repository.
The idea of this commit and of a bunch of following commits will instead
be to reduce the nesting and simplify the structure.
While there, improve the documentation.
* fix: always use the atomicx package
For consistency, never use sync/atomic and always use ./internal/atomicx
so we can just grep and make sure we're not risking to crash if we make
a subtle mistake on a 32 bit platform.
While there, mention in the contributing guidelines that we want to
always prefer the ./internal/atomicx package over sync/atomic.
* fix(atomicx): remove unnecessary constructor
We don't need a constructor here. The default constructed `&Int64{}`
instance is already usable and the constructor does not add anything to
what we are doing, rather it just creates extra confusion.
* cleanup(atomicx): we are not using Float64
Because atomicx.Float64 is unused, we can safely zap it.
* cleanup(atomicx): simplify impl and improve tests
We can simplify the implementation by using defer and by letting
the Load() method call Add(0).
We can improve tests by making many goroutines updated the
atomic int64 value concurrently.
* refactor(fsx): can live in the ./internal pkg
Let us reduce the amount of nesting. While there, ensure that the
package only exports the bare minimum, and improve the documentation
of the tests, to ease reading the code.
* refactor: move runtimex to ./internal
* refactor: move shellx into the ./internal package
While there, remove unnecessary dependency between packages.
While there, specify in the contributing guidelines that
one should use x/sys/execabs instead of os/exec.
* refactor: move ooapi into the ./internal pkg
* refactor(humanize): move to ./internal and better docs
* refactor: move platform to ./internal
* refactor(randx): move to ./internal
* refactor(multierror): move into the ./internal pkg
* refactor(kvstore): all kvstores in ./internal
Rather than having part of the kvstore inside ./internal/engine/kvstore
and part in ./internal/engine/kvstore.go, let us put every piece of code
that is kvstore related into the ./internal/kvstore package.
* fix(kvstore): always return ErrNoSuchKey on Get() error
It should help to use the kvstore everywhere removing all the
copies that are lingering around the tree.
* sessionresolver: make KVStore mandatory
Simplifies implementation. While there, use the ./internal/kvstore
package rather than having our private implementation.
* fix(ooapi): use the ./internal/kvstore package
* fix(platform): better documentation
* fix(pkg.go.dev): import a subpackage containing the assets
We're trying to fix this issue that pkg.go.dev does not build.
Thanks to @hellais for this very neat idea! Let's keep our
fingers crossed and see whether it fixes!
* feat: use embedded geoip databases
Closes https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1372.
Work done as part of https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1369.
* fix(assetsx): add tests
* feat: simplify and just vendor uncompressed DBs
* remove tests that seems not necessary anymore
* fix: run go mod tidy
* Address https://github.com/ooni/probe-cli/pull/260/files#r605181364
* rewrite a test in a better way
* fix: gently cleanup the legacy assetsdir
Do not remove the whole directory with brute force. Just zap the
files whose name we know. Then attempt to delete the legacy directory
as well. If not empty, just fail. This is fine because it means the
user has stored other files inside the directory.
* fix: create .miniooni if missing
* refactor: start building an Android package
Part of https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1335.
This seems also a good moment to move some packages out of the
engine, e.g., oonimkall. This package, for example, is a consumer
of the engine, so it makes sense it's not _inside_ it.
* fix: committed some stuff I didn't need to commit
* fix: oonimkall needs to be public to build
The side effect is that we will probably need to bump the major
version number every time we change one of these APIs.
(We can also of course choose to violate the basic guidelines of Go
software, but I believe this is bad form.)
I have no problem in bumping the major quite frequently and in
any case this monorepo solution is convinving me more than continuing
to keep a split between engine and cli. The need to embed assets to
make the probe more reliable trumps the negative effects of having to
~frequently bump major because we expose a public API.
* fix: let's not forget about libooniffi
Honestly, I don't know what to do with this library. I added it
to provide a drop in replacement for MK but I have no idea whether
it's used and useful. I would not feel comfortable exposing it,
unlike oonimkall, since we're not using it.
It may be that the right thing to do here is just to delete the
package and reduce the amount of code we're maintaining?
* woops, we're still missing the publish android script
* fix(publish-android.bash): add proper API key
* ouch fix another place where the name changed
This is how I did it:
1. `git clone https://github.com/ooni/probe-engine internal/engine`
2. ```
(cd internal/engine && git describe --tags)
v0.23.0
```
3. `nvim go.mod` (merging `go.mod` with `internal/engine/go.mod`
4. `rm -rf internal/.git internal/engine/go.{mod,sum}`
5. `git add internal/engine`
6. `find . -type f -name \*.go -exec sed -i 's@/ooni/probe-engine@/ooni/probe-cli/v3/internal/engine@g' {} \;`
7. `go build ./...` (passes)
8. `go test -race ./...` (temporary failure on RiseupVPN)
9. `go mod tidy`
10. this commit message
Once this piece of work is done, we can build a new version of `ooniprobe` that
is using `internal/engine` directly. We need to do more work to ensure all the
other functionality in `probe-engine` (e.g. making mobile packages) are still WAI.
Part of https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1335
