Hi Vu,

It seems this README doesn't explained , how to enable 
SA_ENABLE_EXTENDED_NAMES on a node,

if some application is creating an app stream ( NOT using saflogger tool 
) DN is longer than 255 characters in length.

-AVM

On 7/4/2016 8:36 AM, Vu Minh Nguyen wrote:
>   osaf/services/saf/logsv/README_LONGDN |  138 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   1 files changed, 138 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
>
> Show changes for long DN, including:
> 1) saflogger tool
> 2) log agent
> 3) log services
> 4) test suite
>
> diff --git a/osaf/services/saf/logsv/README_LONGDN 
> b/osaf/services/saf/logsv/README_LONGDN
> new file mode 100644
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/osaf/services/saf/logsv/README_LONGDN
> @@ -0,0 +1,138 @@
> +#
> +#      -*- OpenSAF  -*-
> +#
> +# (C) Copyright 2016 The OpenSAF Foundation
> +#
> +# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
> +# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
> +# or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. This file and program are licensed
> +# under the GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2.1, February 1999.
> +# The complete license can be accessed from the following location:
> +# http://opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-license.php
> +# See the Copying file included with the OpenSAF distribution for full
> +# licensing terms.
> +#
> +# Author(s): Ericsson AB
> +#
> +
> +I. GENERAL INFORMATION (#1315)
> +==============================
> +
> +The SaNameT type, which is used to pass distinguished stream DNs name in 
> saLogStreamOpen_2() API,
> +or in `logSvcUsrName`, `notificationObject` or `notifyingObject` which 
> belong to `SaLogRecordT`
> +data structure passed to `saLogWriteLogAsync()` API, contains a fixed-size 
> buffer that limits
> +the string length to a maximum of 255 bytes.
> +
> +#1315 ticket was raised for LOG to support long DN. The use cases could be:
> +UC1) Write log records using the long DN in @Sl, @No, @Ng tokens using Log 
> API.
> +UC2) Create any long DN name stream using Log API.
> +UC3) Write record to long DN app stream using saflogger tool.
> +
> +The implementation was split into following parts:
> +1) Update saflogger tool - add one more option `-f`
> +2) Update LOG agent (API) to support Long DN
> +3) Update LOG service to support Long DN
> +4) Create test cases
> +
> +Besides, README file and OpenSAF_LOG_PR.odt have to be updated.
> +
> +
> +II) IMPLEMENTATION (#1315)
> +==============================
> +
> +1) Update saflogger tool - Add One More Option `-f`
> +-------------------------------------------------
> +`-f` option is only applicable for application stream. Means it is only valid
> +when comes together with option `-a`. If no `-f` is provided, default 
> behavior is maintained.
> +
> +Why need to add new option `-f` to saflogger tool?
> +When long DN is supported, user is able to put long DN name after option 
> `-a`, and saflogger tool will
> +use that long DN for log file name of that app stream. In that case, the log 
> file name will be over 256 characters in length.
> +As the result, logsv could get failed to create such long file name (most 
> Unix system supports file name length up to 255 characters).
> +
> +
> +2) Update LOG Agent (API) to Support Long DN
> +---------------------------------------------
> +All internal SaNameT will be replaced by SaConstStringT and functions 
> handling extended SaNameT are used.
> +
> +One point needs to be noticed is that, with extended SaNameT, data size 
> could be up to 2048 bytes (not limited to 256 bytes any more).
> +As the result, several condition checking for max length size against 256 
> bytes will be updated to 2048 bytes (kOsafMaxDnLength).
> +So, when supported long DN client (e.g: log client running on OpenSAF 5.1 or 
> newer versions) sends an record containing long DN
> +(e.g: `notificationObject` length > 256 bytes) to active Log service not 
> support long DN (e.g: active log running on OpenSAF 5.0
> +or older versions), that log client will get `SA_AIS_ERR_TRY_AGAIN` always 
> and make cause the log client hang.
> +There is no problem with the opposite case (non-support long DN do 
> communicate with supported long DN).
> +
> +
> +3) Update LOG Service to Support Long DN
> +----------------------------------------
> +In original code, logsv used NCS PATRICIA TREE as an database to hold all 
> existing LOG streams in system,
> +and taking stream DN as the keyword for searching/adding/deleting tree 
> elements.
> +NCS PATRICIA TREE has a limitation with keyword size. It is only supported 
> the key size up to 600 bytes.
> +With long DN, stream DN could be up to 2024 bytes (kOsafMaxDnLength), that 
> tree is no longer valid.
> +
> +Besides, logsv is providing other database named `stream_array` which is 
> used to hold all LOG existing streams.
> +When there is any new stream created, `log_stream_t` holding information of 
> that stream, will be added to that database
> +and when the stream is closed and no client connects to that stream, it will 
> be removed from the database.
> +That database is a two-dimensional array with data format:
> +     {
> +             { <streamId1>, <pointer to `log_stream_t`> },
> +             { <streamId2>, <pointer to `log_stream_t`> },
> +             ...
> +     }
> +
> +Logsv is able to query below infos from `stream_array` that logsv used to do 
> so based on NCS PATRICIA TREE:
> +- Is there any current log stream with specific DN in system?
> +- Or what are the current log existing streams in system?
> +Therefore, NCS PATRICIA TREE can be removed from logsv code. `stream_array` 
> database can play the same role as NCS_PATRICIA_TREE.
> +
> +More on `stream_array` database. All rooms in `stream_array` is clean/reset 
> at startup.
> +First three rooms are reserved for well-known streams.
> +At the moment (OpenSAF 5.1), there are total 67 rooms (64 for app streams + 
> 3 for well-known streams).
> +Adding/deleting/searching items to/from this database is fast.
> +
> +In addition to above change, internal SaNameT will be replaced by 
> SaConstStringT or C++ strings and functions handling extended SaNameT are 
> used.
> +
> +NOTES:
> +If active node is OpenSAF 5.1 or newer communicate with older versions such 
> as OpenSAF 5.0 (not support Long DN),
> +then if there is operation on creating app stream with Long DN, standby node 
> will be crashed.
> +This will happen because active node sends checkpoint data to standby node, 
> and there is copying data operation (strcpy)
> +to SaNameT type. Make the data is overflowed. strcpy() should not be used 
> anywhere in code, but strncpy() instead.
> +
> +To avoid this happens, two options:
> +a) During upgrade, make sure there is no long DN operation run until the 
> upgrade is finished.
> +b) Raise one ticket to fix all places using strcpy()
> +
> +
> +4) Create Test Cases
> +-----------------------------
> +New test suite - suite #13 with ten test cases were created to cover minimum 
> requirement described at `GENERAL` section.
> +Including five normal use cases and five abnormal use cases.
> +
> +Each test cases is done with following frame:
> +a) Backup data such as current IMM attribute values, so that it can be 
> restored back after test run.
> +b) Set up environment such as enabling long DN support in IMM, change log 
> stream attribute values
> +c) Write log record containing long DN or creating streams with Long DN.
> +d) Verify the data if it contains what we expect to have such as log file 
> contains long DN at specific token or not.
> +e) Close all opened handles
> +f) Restore the data back to original values.
> +
> +At verifying step, if the environment variable `LOGTEST_ENABLE_STDOUT` is 
> set, user will be able to see
> +the verifying data such as long notifyingObj at specific log file name.
> +And when running the test suite #13, user does not have to to take care how 
> to set up environment
> +for long DN testing, all precondition are set to make sure the long DN work.
> +
> +Users can refer to these test cases to see how to pass long DN data to LOG 
> APIs,
> +and what are precondition settings for using extended SaNameT.
> +The tests are located in the file `~/tests/logsv/tet_log_longDN.c`
> +
> +Besides, some other tests/check have been done:
> +a) Valgrind check
> +b) Upgrade/downgrade test
> +c) Cppcheck run
> +
> +
> +III. REFERENCES
> +=======================
> +
> +1) OpenSAF_Extensions_PR.odt
> +


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