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: move bytecounting conn in bytecounter pkg
This enables other pieces of code to request bytecounting without
depending on netx or on the perverse using-the-context-to-configure-
byte-counting mechanism.
Also occurred when working on https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1687
* fix: add missing docs
* fix(all): introduce and use iox.CopyContext
This PR is part of https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1417.
In https://github.com/ooni/probe-cli/pull/379 we introduced a context
aware wrapper for io.ReadAll (formerly ioutil.ReadAll).
Here we introduce a context aware wrapper for io.Copy.
* fix(humanize): more significant digits
* fix: rename humanize files to follow the common pattern
* fix aligment
* fix test
* 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.
The socks5 factory always returns a DialContext capable dialer. We just
need to cast to obtain such a dialer.
Also, the code will use the DialContext if passed a dialer that
implements DialContext.
Write a test that proves my point.
Part of https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1591.
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.
* chore: update dependencies
* chore: update user agent for measurements
* chore: we're now at v3.6.0
* chore: update assets
* chore: update bundled CA
* fix: address some goreportcard.com warnings
* fix(debian/changelog): zap release that breaks out build scripts
We're forcing the content of changelog with `dch`, so it's fine to
not have any specific new release in there.
* fix: make sure tests are passing locally
Notably, I removed a chunk of code where we were checking for network
activity. Now we don't fetch the databases and it's not important. Before,
it was important because the databases are ~large.
* fix: temporarily comment out riseupvn integration tests
See https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1354 for work aimed at
reducing the rate of false positives (thanks @cyBerta!)
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
Simone Basso