- All (but the printing/debug functions) are now in snake_case.
- Functions made const correct.
- All function prototypes now have named arguments.
Documentation still to be moved, and file possibly split into
include/mascale/server.h and server/core/maxscale/server.h
Filters, monitors and routers can now declare parameters and those
parameters will always be present. Currently, this removes the need to
parse simple values like booleans and integers.
Some of the more common parameter types could be added in the future
e.g. paths to files.
Using the unique ID for the session is easier to use than an address. This
also allows the removal of all pointer values from the maxadmin output
which is never useful to the end user.
The server weighting parameters couldn't be altered online and they
weren't serialized to disk. Only servers that are created online will have
their weighting parameters persisted to disk.
MXS-1060. In MaxAdmin, running "list services" will now list the
backends of each service. When running "show services", the backend
names are now printed (previously just the addresses and protocols).
When the listeners were created twice, MaxScale would crash when the users
were loaded. This is caused by the fact that the DCB for the listener is
NULL for failed listeners.
Adding a server to multiple monitors is forbidden. This should be detected
and reported to the end user.
The information provided by the config_runtime system to the client isn't
as detailed as it could be. Some sort of an error message stack should be
added so that client facing interfaces could properly report the reason
for the failure. Currently the only way to detect the reason of the
failure is to parse the log files.
Router and filter instances cannot be destroyed before all worker
threads have exited. Otherwise there is a risk that data gets deleted
while someone might still be accessing it. Further, since all router
and filter instances are created by the main-thread it is better that
they are deleted by that thread as well (and not by whichever thread
happens to execute service_shutdown()). That will reduce the risk that
some unknown assumptions are violated.
The service header in include/maxscale/ contains the public part of the
service API. These functions can be safely used by the modules.
The internal header located in service/core/maxscale/ is used by the core
to initialize MaxScale at startup or to provide other services in a more
controlled way (the config_runtime, for example).
The listeners aren't really destroyed and are only stopped. Further
changes are required so that they won't be started again once they have
been destroyed.
The created listeners are now stored to disk like created servers
are. This allows them to be used even after a restart.
Currently, the listeners cannot be deleted and need to be manually
removed.
The config_runtime.h header contains functions that can be used to
manipulate the running configuration. Currently the header contains the
function to create, add, remove and destroy servers.
The code that checked whether a server was added to a service did not
check whether the server reference was active. This caused problems when
an old server was added again to a service that once had used it.
When a service is added or removed from a service, a supplementary
configuration file is created. This allows MaxScale to survive restars and
unexpected downtime even if runtime changes to the servers of a service
have been made.
With these changes, it is possible to start MaxScale without any servers,
create servers, add the created servers to services and monitors and
restart Maxscale without losing the runtime configuration changes.
The checks for the server active status are now hidden behind a
macro. This allows for the conditions of the activity to change without
having to alter the code that uses it.
The MySQL Monitor did not reset the pointer to the root master reference
which would lead to a crash if the master was removed.
When service details were shown, it listed all servers that existed. Only
servers that haven't been removed or destroyed should be shown.
MaxScale can now start without any defined monitors. This allows the core
services to be configured beforehand. With the changes to dynamic
modifications to servers, automatic scaling of slaves is possible.
Servers can now be added and removed from services which allows routers to
use them with new sessions. The routers don't fully use the new
functionality in the server references which prevents new servers from
being taken into use.
The HTTPD protocol mistakenly assumed that the `authenticator` parameter
of a listener would be NULL if the default authenticator is used.
Recent changes modified it so that the value is never NULL and
`NullAuthDeny` would be used for protocols which did not implement the
auth_default entry point.
The dbusers.c was a MySQL protocol specific file which was used directly
by some of the modules.
Added a new return value for the loadusers authenticator entry point which
allows fatal failures to occur when users are loaded. Currently this is
only taken into notice when the service is first started. If a listener
later returns a fatal error, it is only logged but the service stays in
operation.
Moved the MySQLAuth authenticator sources and the tests that relate to
this module into a subdirectory in the authenticator
directory. Eventually, all authenticators could have a subdirectory of
their own.
The MySQL authenticator now injects the service user into the list of
allowed users if loading of database users fails. This allows the removal
of common code in the binlogrouter and maxinfo modules.
In a subsequent change, the includes of server/core/*.c will be
cleaned up, and if there is a common set of include files, needed
by most, then a server/core/maxscale/core.h that includes those
will be introduced.
The general purpose stuff in skygw_utils.h was moved to utils.h
and the corresponding implementation from skygw_utils.cc to utils.c.
Includes updated accordingly.
Skygw_utils.h is now only used by log_manager and by mlist, which
is only used by log_manager. Consequently, skygw_utils.h was moved
to server/maxscale.
Utils.h needs a separate overhaul.
- STRERROR_BUFLEN moved to cdefs.h and renamed to MXS_STRERROR_BUFLEN.
Better would be to provide a 'const char* mxs_strerror(int errno)'
that would have a thread specific buffer for the error message.
- MIN and MAX also moved to defs.h as MXS_MIN and MXS_MAX.
- Now only mlist.h of the headers depend upon skygw_utils.h.
- Headers now to be included as <maxscale/xyz.h>
- First step, no cleanup of headers has been made. Only moving
from one place to another + necessary modifications.
Authenticators now have a similar mechanism to the `router_options`
parameter which enables configurable authentication.
The authenticators also have a new initialize entry point which is similar
to the createInstance entry point of the filters and routers. The value of
`authenticator_options` is passed as a parameter to this function. The
return vaulue of the `initialize` entry point is passed to the `create`
entry point.
The create and destroy entry points allow authenticators to store data in
the DCB. This data is not shared by other DCBs related to the same
session.
The plugin_name entry point wasn't really useful as the plugins would
still need to send a AuthSwitchRequest packet if they wanted to change the
authentication mechanism.
The MYSQL_* authentication return codes are now in gw_authenticator.h so
that all authenticators can use them. Also dropped the MYSQL_ prefix from
the return codes and added AUTH_INCOMPLETE for a generic
authentication-in-progress return code.
