Update the documentation to explicitly state that versions must match across hosts when running remotely.
Add a hint to the protocol version mismatch error to help the user identify the problem.
We use the Z suffix in many functions to indicate that we are expecting a zero-terminated string so make this function conform to the pattern.
As a bonus the new name is a bit shorter, which is a good quality in a commonly-used function.
strCat() did not follow our convention of appending Z to functions that accept zero-terminated strings rather than String objects.
Add strCatZ() to accept zero-terminated strings and update strCat() to accept String objects.
Use LF_STR where appropriate but don't use other String constants because they do not improve readability.
This has been the policy for some time but due to migration pressure only new functions and refactors have been following this rule. Now it seems sensible to make a clean sweep and move all the comments that have not been moved already (i.e. most of them).
Only obvious typos and gross inaccuracies in the comments have been fixed. For this most part this was a copy and paste operation.
Useless comments, e.g. "New object", were not copied. Even so, there are surely many deficient comments left.
Some rearranging was done where needed and functions were placed in the proper sections, e.g. "Constructors", "Functions", etc.
A few function prototypes were found that not longer had an implementation. These were removed, but there may be more.
The coding document has been updated to reflect this policy, which is not new but has never been documented.
Previously memNew() used memset() to initialize all struct members to 0, NULL, false, etc. While this appears to work in practice, it is a violation of the C specification. For instance, NULL == 0 must be true but neither NULL nor 0 must be represented with all zero bits.
Instead use designated initializers to initialize structs. These guarantee that struct members will be properly initialized even if they are not specified in the initializer. Note that due to a quirk in the C99 specification at least one member must be explicitly initialized even if it needs to be the default value.
Since pre-zeroed memory is no longer required, adjust memAllocInternal()/memReallocInternal() to return raw memory and update dependent functions accordingly. All instances of memset() have been removed except in debug/test code where needed.
Add memMewPtrArray() to allocate an array of pointers and automatically set all pointers to NULL.
Rename memGrowRaw() to the more logical memResize().
This macro block encapsulates the common pattern of switching to the prior (formerly called old) mem context to return results from a function.
Also rename MEM_CONTEXT_OLD() to memContextPrior(). This violates our convention of macros being in all caps but memContextPrior() will become a function very soon so this will reduce churn.
Pushing output through a JSON blob is not practical if the output is extremely large, e.g. a backup manifest with 100K+ files.
Add read/write routines so that output can be returned in chunks but errors will still be detected.
Multiple PostgreSQL hosts were supported via the host-id option but there are cases where it is useful to be able to directly specify the host id required, e.g. to iterate through pg* hosts when looking for candidate primaries and standbys during backup.
Pre-calculate the value used by logAny() to improve performance and make it more likely to be inlined.
Move IF_LOG_ANY() into LOG_INTERNAL() to simplify the macros and improve performance of LOG() and LOG_PID(). If the message has no chance of being logged there's no reason to call logInternal().
Rename logWill() to logAny() because it seems more intuitive.
The branch coverage exclusion rules were overly broad and included functions that ended in a capital letter, which disabled all coverage for the statement. Improve matching so that all characters in the name must be upper-case for a match.
Some macros with internal branches accepted parameters that might contain conditionals. This made it impossible to tell which branches belonged to which, and in any case an overzealous exclusion rule was ignoring all branches in such cases. Add the DEBUG_COVERAGE flag to build a modified version of the macros without any internal branches to be used for coverage testing. In most cases, the branches were optimizations (like checking logWill()) that improve production performance but are not needed for testing. In other cases, a parameter needed to be added to the underlying function to handle the branch during coverage testing.
Also tweak the coverage rules so that macros without conditionals are automatically excluded from branch coverage as long as they are not themselves a parameter.
Finally, update tests and code where missing coverage was exposed by these changes. Some code was updated to remove existing coverage exclusions when it was a simple change.
Most of the *Free() functions are pretty generic so add macros to make creating them as easy as possible.
Create a distinction between *Free() functions that the caller uses to free memory and callbacks that free third-party resources. There are a number of cases where a driver needs to free resources but does not need a normal *Free() because it is handled by the interface.
Add common/object.h for macros that make object maintenance easier. This pattern can also be used for many more object functions.
Rename memContextCallback() to memContextCallbackSet() to be more consistent with other parts of the code.
Free all context memory when an exception is thrown from a callback. Previously only the child contexts would be freed and this resulted in some allocations being lost. In practice this is probably not a big deal since the process will likely terminate shortly, but there may well be cases where that is not true.
Use autoconf to provide a basic configure script. WITH_BACKTRACE is yet to be migrated to configure and the unit tests still use a custom Makefile.
Each C file must include "build.auto.conf" before all other includes and defines. This is enforced by test.pl for includes, but it won't detect incorrect define ordering.
Update packages to call configure and use standard flags to pass options.
In most cases the JSON type is known so this is more efficient than converting to Variant first, both in terms of memory and time.
Also rename some of the existing functions for consistency.
Asserts were only only reported on stderr rather than being returned through the protocol layer. This did not appear to be very reliable.
Instead, report the assert through the protocol layer like any other error. Add a stack trace if an assert error or debug logging is enabled.
These work almost exactly like the String constant macros. However, a struct per variant type was required which meant custom constructors and destructors for each type.
Propagate the variant constants out into the codebase wherever they are useful.
The STRING_CONST() macro worked fine for constants but was not able to constify strings created at runtime.
Add the STR() macro to do this by using strlen() to get the size.
Also rename STRING_CONST() to STRDEF() for brevity and to match the other macro name.
Prior to this the Perl remote was used to satisfy C requests. This worked fine but since the remote needed to be migrated to C anyway there was no reason to wait.
Add the ProtocolServer object and tweak ProtocolClient to work with it. It was also necessary to add a mechanism to get option values from the remote so that encryption settings could be read and used in the storage object.
Update the remote storage objects to comply with the protocol changes and add the storage protocol handler.
Ideally this commit would have been broken up into smaller chunks but there are cross-dependencies in the protocol layer and it didn't seem worth the extra effort.
This parameter was always useless but commit 7333b630 removed all references to it so remove the parameter at all call sites as well.
The original intention was probably to allow logging of TEST return values but that never happened.
Rather than create a CONST_ variant for every type that needs to be returned const, create a FUNCTION_LOG_RETURN_CONST() macro that will return any type as const.
Rename FUNCTION_DEBUG_* macros to FUNCTION_LOG_* to more accurately reflect what they do. Further rename FUNCTION_DEBUG_RESULT* macros to FUNCTION_LOG_RETURN* to make it clearer that they return from the function as well as logging. Leave FUNCTION_TEST_* macros as they are.
Consolidate the various ASSERT* macros into a single ASSERT macro that is always compiled out of production builds. It was difficult to figure out when an assert would be checked with all the different types in play. When ASSERTs are compiled in they will always be checked regardless of the log level -- tying these two concepts together was not a good idea.
This is a complete protocol client implementation in C.
Currently there is no C server implementation so the C client is talking to a Perl server. This won't work very long, though, as the protocol format, even though in JSON, has a lot of language-specific structure. While it would be possible to maintain compatibility between C and Perl it's probably not worth the effort in the long run.
Just as in Perl there are helper functions to make constructing protocol objects easier. Currently only repository remotes are supported.
