A configuration manager, in addition to a top-level format object,
may now also know about a suite of sub-formats. Top-level
configuration objects, in turn, may now have a suite of
sub-objects.
The right way to free a config object is now to wrap config_free(),
always. Instead of creating an alternative free function, objects
should provide an alternative clear callback to free any fields that
the configuration manager doesn't manage.
This lets us simplify our code a little, and lets us extend the
confparse.c code to manage additional fields in config_free.
Every time we finalize a config manager, we now generate a new magic
number for it, so that we'll get an assertion failure if we ever try
to use an object with a different configuration manager than the one
that generated it.
It's important to make sure that we don't change a config_mgr_t
after we start using it to make objects, or we could get into
inconsistent states. This feature is the start of a safety
mechanism to prevent this problem.
Iterating over this array was once a good idea, but now that we are
going to have a separate structure for each submodule's
configuration variables, we should indirect through the config_mgr_t
object.
The eventual design here will be that multiple config_format_t
objects get registered with a single config_mgr_t. That
config_mgr_t manages a "top-level" object, which has a pointer to
the other objects.
I had earlier thought of a different design, where there would be no
top-level object, and config_mgr_t would deal with a container
instead. But this would require a bunch of invasive refactoring
that I don't think we should do just yet.
Remember that our goal in the present refactoring is to allow each
subsystem to declare its own configuration structure and
variables. To do this, each module will get its own
config_format_t, and so we'll want a different structure that wraps
several config_format_t objects. This is a "config_mgr_t".
This C file will eventually belong in lib/confmgt, so it needs to
have only low-level dependencies. Now that it no longers needs
routerset.c, we can adjust its includes accordingly.
I'm not moving the file yet, since it would make fixup commits on
earlier branches here really hard to do.
Now that we have a reasonable implementation for overriding the
default options for TestingTorNetwork, we don't need to modify
config_var_t structs any more. And therefore, we can have constant
format options, like reasonable people.
Previously, when TestingTorNetwork was set, we would manually adjust
the initvalue members of a bunch of other config_var_t, and then
re-run the early parts or parsing the options.
Now we treat the initvalue fields as immutable, but instead assign
to them in options_init(), as early as possible. Rather than
re-running the early parts of options, we just re-call the
options_init_from_string() function.
This patch de-kludges some of our code pretty handily. I think it
could later handle authorities and fallbacks, but for now I think we
should leave those alone.
"unsettable" is a property of types. LINELIST_V and OBSOLETE are
unsettable, meaning that they cannot be set by name.
"contained" is a property of types. I'm hoping to find a better
name here. LINELIST_S is "contained" because it always appears
within a LINELIST_V, and as such doesn't need to be dumped ore
copied independently.
"cumulative" is a property of types. Cumulative types can appear
more than once in a torrc without causing a warning, because they
add to each other rather than replacing each other.
"obsolete" is a property of variables.
"marking fragile" is now a command that struct members can accept.
With these changes, confparse and config no longer ever need to
mention CONFIG_TYPE_XYZ values by name.
Right now, this has been done at a high level by confparse.c, but it
makes more sense to lower it.
This API is radically un-typesafe as it stands; we'll be wrapping it
in a safer API as we do #30914 and lower the struct manipulation
code as well.
Closes ticket 30864.
Note that the event base object is _not_ created from the initialize
function, since it is configuration-dependent. This will wait until
configuration is integrated into subsystems.
Closes ticket 30806.
