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?).
This diff adds the prototype websteps implementation that used
to live at https://github.com/ooni/probe-cli/pull/506.
The code is reasonably good already and it's pointing to a roaming
test helper that I've properly configured.
You can run websteps with:
```
./miniooni -n websteps
```
This will go over the test list for your country.
At this stage the mechanics of the experiment is set, but we
still need to have a conversation on the following topics:
1. whether we're okay with reusing the data format used by other
OONI experiments, or we would like to use a more compact data
format (which may either be a more compact JSON or we can choose
to always submit compressed measurements for websteps);
2. the extent to which we would like to keep the measurement as
a collection of "the experiment saw this" and "the test helper
saw that" and let the pipeline choose an overall score: this is
clearly an option, but there is also the opposite option to
build a summary of the measurement on the probe.
Compared to the previous prototype of websteps, the main
architectural change we have here is that we are following
the point of view of the probe and the test helper is
much more dumb. Basically, the probe will choose which
redirection to follow and ask the test helper every time
it discovers a new URL to measure it w/o redirections.
Reference issue: https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1733
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
There are a bunch of packages where we don't really need to depend
on netx but we can use local definitions that describe what we are
expecting from data structures we receive in input. This diff
addresses one of such cases.
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
When a probe gets a local DNS failure, it will continue and nonetheless
query the test helper without any IP address, just an empty list.
This diff fixes the behavior of cmd/oohelper to do the same.
Work part of https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1707.
* fix(all): introduce and use iox.ReadAllContext
This improvement over the ioutil.ReadAll utility returns early
if the context expires. This enables us to unblock stuck code in
case there's censorship confounding the TCP stack.
See https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1417.
Compared to the functionality postulated in the above mentioned
issue, I choose to be more generic and separate limiting the
maximum body size (not implemented here) from using the context
to return early when reading a body (or any other reader).
After implementing iox.ReadAllContext, I made sure we always
use it everywhere in the tree instead of ioutil.ReadAll.
This includes many parts of the codebase where in theory we don't
need iox.ReadAllContext. Though, changing all the places makes
checking whether we're not using ioutil.ReadAll where we should
not be using it easy: `git grep` should return no lines.
* Update internal/iox/iox_test.go
* fix(ndt7): treat context errors as non-errors
The rationale is explained by the comment documenting reduceErr.
* Update internal/engine/experiment/ndt7/download.go
* 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
* chore(oohelper): increase tests verbosity
Hopefully this helps with https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1409.
* fix(oohelper): use a nonstandard resolver
* fix previous
* make the diff pleasant/committable/correct
* refactor: move more commands to internal/cmd
Part of https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1335.
We would like all commands to be at the same level of engine
rather than inside engine (now that we can do it).
* fix: update .gitignore
* refactor: also move jafar outside engine
* We should be good now?
