This diff forward ports b6db4f64dc83a2a27ee3ce6bba5ac93db922832d, whose
original log message is the following:
- - -
We're now using ooni/oohttp as our HTTP library in most cases.
A limitation of this library is that net/http/httptrace does not
work very well and reliably because (1) we need to use oohttp's
version of that code and (2) we cannot observe net events.
I noticed this fact because an integration test for collecting
HTTP performance metrics was broken.
The best solution here is to remove this functionality, since
it was basically unused in the repository. Only some integration
tests inside urlgetter bothered with these metrics.
A more clinical fix would have been to use ooni/oohttp/httptrace
instead of net/http/httptrace in the stdlib, but it does not
seem to be a good idea, given that those metrics were not used.
With this diff applied, we'll further reduce the number of locally
failing integration tests to just jafar-specific tests.
This diff WILL need to be forwardported to `master`.
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.
The DNSClient type existed because the Resolver type did not
include CloseIdleConnections in its signature.
Now that Resolver includes CloseIdleConnections, the DNSClient
type has become unnecessary and can be safely removed.
See https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1956.
This diff addresses two items of https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1956:
> - [ ] we can remove legacy names from `./internal/engine/netx/resolver/legacy.go`
>
> - [ ] we can remove `DialTLSContext` from `./internal/engine/netx/resolver/tls_test.go`
More cleanups may follow.
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?).
This diff implements the first two cleanups defined at https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1956:
> - [ ] observe that `netxlite` and `netx` differ in error wrapping only in the way in which we set `ErrWrapper.Operation`. Observe that the code using `netxlite` does not care about such a field. Therefore, we can modify `netxlite` to set such a field using the code of `netx` and we can remove `netx` specific code for errors (which currently lives inside of the `./internal/engine/legacy/errorsx` package
>
> - [ ] after we've done the previous cleanup, we can make all the classifiers code private, since there's no code outside `netxlite` that needs them
A subsequent diff will address the remaining cleanup.
While there, notice that there are failing, unrelated obfs4 tests, so disable them in short mode. (I am confident these tests are unrelated because they fail for me when running test locally from the `master` branch.)
## 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
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
I have recently seen a data race related our way of
mutating the outgoing request to set the host header.
Unfortunately, I've lost track of the race output,
because I rebooted my Linux box before saving it.
Though, after inspecting why and and where we're mutating
outgoing requets, I've found that:
1. we add the host header when logging to have it logged,
which is not a big deal since we already emit the URL
rather than just the URL path when logging a request, and
so we can safely zap this piece of code;
2. as a result, in measurements we may omit the host header
but again this is pretty much obvious from the URL itself
and so it should not be very important (nonetheless,
avoid surprises and keep the existing behavior);
3. when the User-Agent header is not set, we default to
a `miniooni/0.1.0-dev` user agent, which is probably not
very useful anyway, so we can actually remove it.
Part of https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1733 (this diff
has been extracted from https://github.com/ooni/probe-cli/pull/506).
I discovered which transport were used by apitool and made sure he gets the same transports now. While there, I discovered an issue with ooni/oohttp that has been fixed with cba9b1ce5e.
Part of https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1591
We need still to add similar wrappers to internal/netxlite but we
will adopt a saner approach to error wrapping this time.
See https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1591
Like before, do not touch the rest of the tree. Rather create
compatibility types declared as legacy.
We will soon be able to close idle connections for an HTTP3
transport using any kind of resolvers more easily.
See https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1591
This basically adapts already existing code inside websteps to
instead be into the netxlite package, where it belongs.
In the process, abstract the TLSDialer but keep a reference to the
previous name to avoid refactoring existing code (just for now).
While there, notice that the right name is CloseIdleConnections (i.e.,
plural not singular) and change the name.
While there, since we abstracted TLSDialer to be an interface, create
suitable factories for making a TLSDialer type from a Dialer and a
TLSHandshaker.
See https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1591
Like we did before for the resolver, a dialer should propagate the
request to close idle connections to underlying types.
See https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1591
We would like to refactor the code so that a DoH resolver owns the
connections of its underlying HTTP client.
To do that, we need first to incorporate CloseIdleConnections
into the Resolver model. Then, we need to add the same function
to all netxlite types that wrap a Resolver type.
At the same time, we want the rest of the code for now to continue
with the simpler definition of a Resolver, now called ResolverLegacy.
We will eventually propagate this change to the rest of the tree
and simplify the way in which we manage Resolvers.
To make this possible, we introduce a new factory function that
adapts a ResolverLegacy to become a Resolver.
See https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1591.
I needed to add some tests as integration tests due to circular
imports, but this is ~fine because we quite likely want many
integration tests in the errorsx package anyway.
Part of https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1505.
This diff is part of https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1505.
You will notice that I have not adapted all the (great) tests we had
previously. They should live at another layer, and namely the one that
deals with performing measurements.
When I'm refactoring such a layer I'll ensure those tests that I have
not adapted here are reintroduced into the tree.
Auto-configure every relevant TLS field as close as possible to
where it's actually used.
As a side effect, add support for mocking the creation of a TLS
connection, which should possibly be useful for uTLS?
Work that is part of https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1505
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.
We already configure a timeout in the underlying dialer, hence
there's no point in keeping the TimeoutDialer around.
Part of https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1507
We're currently use jafar for QA and jafar is a better mechanism,
even though it is not portable outside of Linux.
This self censorship mechanism was less cool and added a bunch
of (also cognitive) complexity to netx.
If we ever want to go down a self censorship like road, we probably
want to do as little work as possible in the problem and as much
work as possible inside a helper like jafar.
Part of https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1591.
* 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(webconnectivity): allow measuring https://1.1.1.1
There were two issues preventing us from doing so:
1. in netx, the address resolver was too later in the resolver
chain. Therefore, its result wasn't added to the events.
2. when building the DNSCache (in httpget.go), we didn't consider
the case where the input is an address. We need to treat this
case specially to make sure there is no DNSCache.
See https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1376.
* fix: add unit tests for code making the dnscache
* fix(netx): make sure all tests pass
* chore: bump webconnectivity version
* MVP of a signal messenger test
* Add minimal signal test unit tests
* Add Signal test to the im nettest group
* Add test for https://sfu.voip.signal.org/
* Fix bug in client-side determination of blocking status
* Add uptime.signal.org to the test targets
* Add more tests
* Check for invalid CA being passed
* Check that the update function works as expected
* Update internal/engine/experiment/signal/signal_test.go
Co-authored-by: Simone Basso <bassosimone@gmail.com>
* fix: back out URL we shouldn't have changed
When merging probe-engine into probe-cli, we changed too many URLs
and some of them should not have been changed.
I noticed this during the review of Signal and I choose to add
this commit to revert such changes.
While there, make sure the URL of the experiment is OK.
* fix(signal): reach 100% of coverage
Just so that we can focus on areas of the codebase where we need
more coverage, let us avoid missing an easy line to test.
Co-authored-by: Simone Basso <bassosimone@gmail.com>
* 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
