The use of a pointer instead of a reference conveys the message that the
lifetime of the object being pointed can, and most likely will, exceed the
lifetime of the function.
Also shuffled the member variables and internal functions around and
removed unneeded function declarations.
Cleaned up the headers, removed unused structures. Changed some members to
strings instead of char arrays. Switch to router templates should now be
easier.
The sharding implementation now uses a class to abstract the details of
the shard. This allows for different design where each session makes a
copy of the global shard map which is then used for the duration of the
session. In addition to making the desing a bit clearer to understand, it
also removes lock competition between threads.
Due to the change to C++, the main entry points need to be wrapped in the
exception-safety macros. The next step in the refactoring will be to use
the router template. This will remove the need to manually define them.
The schemarouter now uses the new session commands. It uses a standard
library container to manage the execution and storage of session commands.
The session command history is disabled until a more complete refactoring
can be done.
The binlogrouter error handling closed the DCB twice. This was caused by
the change in the way the DCB error handling is done.
The protocol modules now also call the error handling routine even if the
router session is NULL. This enables the binlogrouter to manage
authentication failures correctly instead of trying to reconnect again.
General code cleanup. Routing error detection now more robust.
Remove some unused code. Debug messages now use "unique_name" when
referring to servers.
Supports hint types:
-master
-slave
-named server
-all
A default action, which is performed when no hint exists or on error,
can be set. The different actions are analogous to the hint types.
A maximum connection number for slaves can be set. If more slaves are
configured for the service, the filter will rotate slaves for new sessions.
Within a session with multiple slaves, the "route_to_slave"-hint will
also rotate among the slave backends.
The readwritesplit now sends COM_PING queries to backend servers that have
been idle for too long. The option is configured with the
`connection_keepalive` parameter.
The static module capabilities are now used to query the capabilities of
filters and routers. The new RCAP_TYPE_NOAUTH capability is also taken
into use. These changes removes the need for the `is_internal_service`
function.
The static capabilities declared in getCapabilities allows certain
capabilities to be queried before instances are created. The intended use
of this capability is to remove the need for the `is_internal_service`
function.
The hintrouter is now in principle capable of routing requests
to the master or to some slave (in a round robin fashion) based
upon hints set by some earlier filter.
Note that as the router is completely oblivious of transaction
boundaries, using it with transactions and autocommit being off
will not make anyone happy.
Recognizing transaction boundaries using regexes and then pinning
the server until transaction commit would be needed.
Both the listeners and servers now support IPv6 addresses.
The namedserverfilter does not yet use the new structures and needs to be
fixed in a following commit.
The authenticators should have a similar way to print diagnostic
information as filter and routers do. This allows the authenticators to
print the users in their own format.
In the future, all the diagnostic entry points should be changed so that
they return a structure that contains the information in a standard
form. This information can then be formatted in different ways by other
modules.
The order of the servers in the service definition could break the
master_accept_reads functionality.
When the first server defined in the service is a slave, it will always be
picked as the first candidate for reads. The master would only be
considered as a candidate for reads if no previous candidate was
available. For this reason, the master_accept_reads only worked when the
first server in the list was the master.
