The manipulation functions are currently static so that the container can be initialized
if required. This will be fixed later.
The new functions are taken into use in monitor management.
Replaces uses of config_get_param() in modules either with contains()
or get_string(). The config_get_param() is moved to internal headers,
as it allows seeing inside a config setting.
The old behavior is to not start MaxScale if any listeners fail to
bind. This behavior is convenient when there are conflicts with other
applications so it should remain. This change prevents the internal
service restarts from functioning which might have already been broken.
The "restarting" of services after a failure to bind to an interface is
somewhat questionable. Almost no transient errors are expected at startup
with the exception of running out of sockets. This should probably be the
only case when the internal service restart is done and in other cases it
causes more harm than good.
If the startup of the listeners requires communication with all of the
workers, the workers must be up and running for that to happen.
Due to the fact that the main thread is still a worker thread, the
initialization code is not extra straightforward. By queuing an event to
the main worker, the startup of all listeners is done at a fully
operational state with all workers fully functional.
The service initialization code was also flawed in the sense that it would
cause a deadlock if any of the threads would have to check for the user
permissions. This is mainly a problem with the authenticator modules but
the benefits of the per service pre-loading of users is most likely
superficial. In theory startup will be faster as each thread now queries
the users in parallel.
Replaced the DCB with a single file descriptor that the listener listens
on and which is added to all of the workers. The Listener also extends the
MXB_POLL_DATA which allows it to handle epoll events.
Moved the code that creates the listening socket into listener.cc where it
belongs and did a minor cleanup of it.
By storing the reference in the DCB, the two-way dependency between the
listeners and services is severed. Now the services have no direct link to
listeners and after the destruction of a listener it will be freed once
all connections through it have closed.
Due to the fact that a listener itself has a DCB that must point to a
valid listener, a self-reference is stored in the listener DCB. This is
extremely confusing and is only here to keep the code functional until the
DCB part of the listener can be factored out.
By storing a shared pointer to the listeners in the services, they will be
available as long as the service using them exists. This enables clean
destruction of listeners that still have open sessions.
The listener creation code now separately creates the listener and links
it to the service. Also replaced relevant parts of the related code with
the listener implemented versions of it.
The iteration of listeners is now done via the global list of
listeners. This removes the need to have a service before a listener is
accessed which also reflects how the actual configuration is laid out. It
also guarantees that any results returned by the find functions will be
valid as long as the results are used.
The class is still mostly the same as the old C version but it now uses
std::string instead of char pointers. Changed configuration default values
so that the parameters passed to the listener allocation are always valid.
Fetching the users may potentially take longer than the watchdog
timeout. To ensure that MaxScale is not killed by systemd, we must
ensure that the notifications are generated also when MaxScale
synchronously is fetching the users.
The servers with a zero weight would be always used over ones that have a
weight. This means that the behavior was inverted and caused the
mxs2054_hybrid_cluster test to fail in 2.3.
Also fixed a typo in the deprecation message.
Even though directly closing the socket is not very neat in the
architectural sense of things, it allows the best of both worlds: the
socket is instantly closed and is open for reuse while the listener struct
is still available as a reference.
This change needs to be revised when the listeners are refactored into
separate objects.
Updated documentation to reflect the change in behavior.
