Hi Xuelei,

Please see inline.

On 12/02/2016 03:53 PM, Xue-Lei Fan wrote:
Let's whether Sean or Weijun can have free cycle for the review of this part.
Yeah, that would be great.

- Why did you remove Peer and Application interfaces? I think those
interfaces make SSLSocketTemplate more flexible since it allows override
doServerSide/doClientSide logic if necessary - it doesn't seem to be
worse. If there is no strong reason to remove those interfaces, I would
prefer to keep them with default static/stateless
doServerSide/doClientSide versions.
I agree with you that The Peer and Application interfaces are more flexible. I have no strong reason to remove them. For this update, I focus more on simple and minimal sub-classes. The Peer and Application interfaces need some complicated coding (condition, threading, etc) in sub-classes, so the design does not fall into the scope. I may prefer to remove them at this update and see what happens if we moving forward with more test update. We can add them back or create a more flexible one if we need the flexibility in the future.
We have a lot of JSSE tests which may need to do something else in doServerSide() and doClientSide() methods (that's what I learned from my experience working with JSSE tests). Peer and Application interfaces basically allow to override doServerSide() and doClientSide() methods. Your changes make doServerSide() and doClientSide() methods private, so that test can't add something inside it.

If you think those interfaces are helpful, I think it's better to keep Peer and Application interfaces instead of removing/adding them back and forth.

Another option may be providing methods which are called in doServerSide() and doClientSide(). Those methods may be overridden by a test if it needs to do extra stuff inside doServerSide() and doClientSide().

I am fine with both ways, so it's up to you. But I would like to make it clear what way we want to follow.

What do you think?

It also might make sense to make
createSSLContext() a part of public API which I think would make the
template more flexible.
We have had the protected createClient/ServerSSLContext() methods.
Making createSSLContext() accessible doesn't seem to be worse to me. It may be final if you don't want anyone to override it for some reason.

- Exceptions are printed out in startServer/startClient methods, it
doesn't look necessary to use suppressed exceptions and initCause()
method. What was wrong with the code in runTest() method? The code in
runTest() method looks shorter and cleaner to me.

The main issue of runTest() is that it does not throw the original exception. Exception tacks have more information for debugging. I want to keep the good side of Brad's previous hardness on this point.
It is not clear what's the original exception should be because you have client and server. If you print all exceptions in startServer/startClient (right after they occurred), then you don't hide anything helpful for debugging.

IMO, suppressed exceptions may confuse here (that's just from my experience looking at JSSE test logs). The logic in lines 739-763 doesn't make it cleaner what exception was thrown on what side. It does "local.initCause(remote)", but actually "remote" is not a cause of "local". Finally, it does "exception.addSuppressed(startException)" where "startException" can be thrown either on server or client side which actually depends on test logic (an engineer needs to keep it in mind).

Would it be better to have in logs something simple like the following?

....
This is an unexpected exception on client side:
<full stack trace>
This is an unexpected exception on server side:
<full stack trace>
Test failed.
...

Doesn't it look simpler?

- lines 114-123, this code is used quite often by tests, why don't we
keep it in SSLSocketTemplate?

Good point! I don't like it in SSLSocketTemplate as it is used for HTTP connections only, but it may be worthy to have a sub-template for HTTPS client testing. What do you think if we address this enhancement in a new bug?
I am fine with it. My point is that SSLSocketTemplate may contain some useful static methods like this (to avoid duplicate code).

Artem

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