Being able to perform raw REST API calls that leverage the value
extraction capabilities of Node.js gives more control to the end user. It
also doubles as a handy tool for creating scripts that only require one
particular value from the REST API.
The docker image now simply installs the latest MaxScale version instead
of building it. This significantly reduces the amount of maintenance that
the image requires.
Updated the configurations to allow runtime definition of servers and
updated README.md to reflect the changes in the files. Pointed links to
2.2 instead of develop. Removed text from the readme that was not strictly
related to running the MaxScale image.
Worker is now the base class of all workers. It has a message
queue and can be run in a thread of its own, or in the calling
thread. Worker can not be used as such, but a concrete worker
class must be derived from it. Currently there is only one
concrete class RoutingWorker.
There is some overlapping in functionality between Worker and
RoutingWorker, as there is e.g. a need for broadcasting a
message to all routing workers, but not to other workers.
Currently other workers can not be created as the array for
holding the pointers to the workers is exactly as large as
there will be RoutingWorkers. That will be changed so that
the maximum number of threads is hardwired to some ridiculous
value such as 128. That's the first step in the path towards
a situation where the number of worker threads can be changed
at runtime.
A new class mxs::Worker will be introduced and mxs::RoutingWorker
will be inherited from that. mxs::Worker will basically only be a
thread with a message-loop.
Once available, all current non-worker threads (but the one
implicitly created by microhttpd) can be creating by inheriting
from that; in practice that means the housekeeping thread, all
monitor threads and possibly the logging thread.
The benefit of this arrangement is that there then will be a general
mechanism for cross thread communication without having to use any
shared data structures.
If maxadmin connections are handled by different workers, then
there may be a deadlock if some maxadmin command requires
communication with all workers.
Namely, in that case a message will be sent to all other workers
but the current one, but that message will not be handled if that
other worker at that point sits in the debugcmd_lock spinlock
in debugcmd.c:execute_cmd().
We can prevent that deadlock from happening simply by ensuring
that all maxadmin connections are handled by one thread.
Auto types aren't very neat as return values because they move the burden
of knowledge to the reader. Using an explicit, and somewhat
self-explanatory, type makes it easier to assess the code without knowing
the implementation of the type.
The commands needs to be handled separately from the rest of the result
types.
Added a test case that reproduces the problem and verifies that the change
in code fixes it.
When a LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE finishes, the client sends an empty
packet. The second case when the client sends an empty packet when the
previous packet was exactly 0xffffff bytes long. These two packets were
confused which caused the internal state to temporarily flip from inactive
to ending and back to inactive.
The aforementioned flip-flopping didn't have any practical differences but
it was caught by a debug assertion.
The functions do not set errno on all invalid input, so it's best to check
endptr.
Also, strtoll is now used for server id scanning through QueryResult.
The worker task should never be immediately executed to allow the task to
be executed on the next "tick" of the worker. This prevents recursive
calls to e.g. routeQuery in readwritesplit when errors are handled.
Only servers that qualify to be connected should be considered as
candidate servers. This triggered a debug assertion when a slave server
failed to execute a session command but it was chosen as a candidate
server later on.
Autoselection is allowed for current master only, or both current and new master.
Autoselection is not allowed for just the new master.
Also, do_switchover() writes to its parameters when autoselecting for
better error messages.
The COM_STMT_FETCH command will create a response. This was a
readwritesplit-specific interpretation of the command and it was wrong.
Also record the currently executed command event for session commands.
Readwritesplit would not handle multiple overlapping COM_STMT_EXECUTE
commands properly if they opened cursors. This was due to the fact that
the result would not be marked as complete and COM_STMT_FETCH commands
were executed as if they did not return results.
The correct implementation is to consider a COM_STMT_EXECUTE that opens a
cursor complete only when the first EOF packet is read (that is, when the
resultset header is read). This allows subsequent COM_STMT_FETCH commands
to be handled separately.
The separate COM_STMT_FETCH handling must count the number of packets that
are being fetched. This allows correct tracking of the state of a
COM_STMT_FETCH by checking that the number of packets is correct or the
second EOF/ERR packet is read.
When a LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE is actively rejected by the server, the
server sends an error to the client. This error was not detected and the
router was stuck in the special mode that handles LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE.
