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Bernhard Amann updated BIT-1106:
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Status: Merge Request (was: Open)
> Merge topic/bernhard/input-error-fixes
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> Key: BIT-1106
> URL: https://bro-tracker.atlassian.net/browse/BIT-1106
> Project: Bro Issue Tracker
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Bro
> Affects Versions: git/master
> Reporter: Bernhard Amann
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> The branch topic/bernhard/input-error-fixes fixes a number of issues of the
> input framework that all have to do with errors:
> -First:
> Due to architectural constraints, it is very hard for the input framework to
> handle optional records. For an optional record, either the whole record has
> to be missing, or all non-optional elements of the record have to be defined.
> This information is not available to input readers after the records have
> been unrolled into the threading types.
> Behavior so far was to treat optional records like they are non-optional,
> without warning. The patch changes this behavior to emit an error on
> stream-creation (during type-checking) and refusing to open the file. I think
> this is a better idea - the behavior so far was undocumented and unintuitive.
> - Second:
> For table and event streams, reader backend creation was done very early,
> before actually checking if all arguments are valid. Initialization is moved
> after the checks now - this makes a number of delete statements unnecessary.
> Also - I suspect threads of failed input reader instances were not deleted
> until shutdown
> - Third:
> Add a couple more consistency checks, e.g. checking if the destination value
> of a table has the same type as we need. We did not check everything in all
> instances, instead we just assigned the things without caring (which works,
> but is not really desirable).
> This change also exposed a few bugs in other testcases where table
> definitions were wrong (did not respect $want_record)
> - Fourth:
> Improve error messages and write testcases for all error messages (I think).
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