What do I mean by pivoting? Netx is currently organized by row:
```
| dialer | quicdialer | resolver | ...
saving | | | | ...
errorwrapping | | | | ...
logging | | | | ...
mocking/sys | | | | ...
```
Every row needs to implement saving, errorwrapping, logging, mocking (or
adapting to the system or to some underlying library).
This causes cross package dependencies and, in turn, complexity. For
example, we need the `trace` package for supporting saving.
And `dialer`, `quickdialer`, et al. need to depend on such a package.
The same goes for errorwrapping.
This arrangement further complicates testing. For example, I am
currently working on https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1505 and
I realize it need to repeat integration tests in multiple places.
Let's say instead we pivot the above matrix as follows:
```
| saving | errorwrapping | logging | ...
dialer | | | | ...
quicdialer | | | | ...
logging | | | | ...
mocking/sys | | | | ...
...
```
In this way, now every row contains everything related to a specific
action to perform. We can now share code without relying on extra
support packages. What's more, we can write tests and, judding from
the way in which things are made, it seems we only need integration
testing in `errorwrapping` because it's where data quality matters
whereas, in all other cases, unit testing is fine.
I am going, therefore, to proceed with these changes and "pivot"
`netx`. Hopefully, it won't be too painful.
* refactor(netx/dialer): hide implementation complexity
This follows the blueprint of `module.Config` and `nodule.New`
described at https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1591.
* fix: ndt7 bug where we were not using the right resolver
* fix(legacy/netx): clarify irrelevant implementation change
* fix: improve comments
* fix(hhfm): do not use dialer.New b/c it breaks it
Unclear to me why this is happening. Still, improve upon the
previous situation by adding a timeout.
It does not seem a priority to look into this issue now.
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
