Motivation:
We wish to separate these two into clearer write/read interfaces.
In particular, we don't want to be able to add listeners to promises, because it makes it easy to add them out of order.
We can't prevent it entirely, because any promise can be freely converted to a future where listeners can be added.
We can, however, discourage this in the API.
Modification:
The Promise interface no longer extends the Future interface.
Numerous changes to make the project compile and its tests run.
Result:
Clearer separation of concerns in the code.
Bootstrap methods now return Future<Channel> instead of ChannelFuture
Motivation:
In #8516 it was proposed to at some point remove the specialised ChannelFuture and ChannelPromise.
Or at least make them not extend Future and Promise, respectively.
One pain point encountered in this discussion is the need to get access to the channel object after it has been initialised, but without waiting for the channel registration to propagate through the pipeline.
Modification:
Add a Bootstrap.createUnregistered method, which will return a Channel directly.
All other Bootstrap methods that previously returned ChannelFuture now return Future<Channel>
Result:
It's now possible to obtain an initialised but unregistered channel from a bootstrap, without blocking.
And the other bootstrap methods now only release their channels through the result of their futures, preventing racy access to the channels.
Motivation:
At the moment we only support signing / decrypting the private key in a synchronous fashion. This is quite limited as we may want to do a network call to do so on a remote system for example.
Modifications:
- Update to latest netty-tcnative which supports running tasks in an asynchronous fashion.
- Add OpenSslAsyncPrivateKeyMethod interface
- Adjust SslHandler to be able to handle asynchronous task execution
- Adjust unit tests to test that asynchronous task execution works in all cases
Result:
Be able to asynchronous do key signing operations
Motivation:
Protocols and Cipher suites constants to prevent typos in protocol and cipher suites names and ease of use.
Modification:
Added Protocols and Cipher suites as constants in their respective classes.
Result:
Fixes#11393
Motivation:
At the moment we only support signing / decrypting the private key in a synchronous fashion. This is quite limited as we may want to do a network call to do so on a remote system for example.
Modifications:
- Update to latest netty-tcnative which supports running tasks in an asynchronous fashion.
- Add OpenSslAsyncPrivateKeyMethod interface
- Adjust SslHandler to be able to handle asynchronous task execution
- Adjust unit tests to test that asynchronous task execution works in all cases
Result:
Be able to asynchronous do key signing operations
Motivation:
Some of the features we want to support can only be supported by some of the SslContext implementations. We should allow to configure these in a consistent way the same way as we do it with Channel / ChannelOption
Modifications:
- Add SslContextOption and add builder methods that take these
- Add OpenSslContextOption and define two options there which are specific to openssl
Result:
More flexible configuration and implementation of SslContext
Motivation:
HTTP is a plaintext protocol which means that someone may be able
to eavesdrop the data. To prevent this, HTTPS should be used whenever
possible. However, maintaining using https:// in all URLs may be
difficult. The nohttp tool can help here. The tool scans all the files
in a repository and reports where http:// is used.
Modifications:
- Added nohttp (via checkstyle) into the build process.
- Suppressed findings for the websites
that don't support HTTPS or that are not reachable
Result:
- Prevent using HTTP in the future.
- Encourage users to use HTTPS when they follow the links they found in
the code.
Motivation:
junit deprecated Assert.assertThat(...)
Modifications:
Use MatcherAssert.assertThat(...) as replacement for deprecated method
Result:
Less deprecation warnings
Motivation
Per javadoc in 4.1.x SimpleChannelInboundHandler:
"Please keep in mind that channelRead0(ChannelHandlerContext, I) will be
renamed to messageReceived(ChannelHandlerContext, I) in 5.0."
Modifications
Rename aforementioned method and all references/overrides.
Result
Method is renamed.
Motivation:
Depending on what OpenSSL library version we use / system property that is set we need to skip tests that use KeyManagerFactory.
Modifications:
Add missing assume checks for tests that use KeyManagerFactory.
Result:
All tests pass even if KeyManagerFactory is not supported
Motivation:
While OpenSslPrivateKeyMethod.* should never return null we should still guard against it to prevent any possible segfault.
Modifications:
- Throw SignatureException if null is returned
- Add unit test
Result:
No segfault when user returns null.
Motivation:
4079189f6b introduced OpenSslPrivateKeyMethodTest which will only be run when BoringSSL is used. As the assumeTrue(...) also guards the init of the static fields we need to ensure we only try to destroy these if BoringSSL is used as otherwise it will produce a NPE.
Modifications:
Check if BoringSSL is used before trying to destroy the resources.
Result:
No more NPE when BoringSSL is not used.
Motivation:
BoringSSL allows to customize the way how key signing is done an even offload it from the IO thread. We should provide a way to plugin an own implementation when BoringSSL is used.
Modifications:
- Introduce OpenSslPrivateKeyMethod that can be used by the user to implement custom signing by using ReferenceCountedOpenSslContext.setPrivateKeyMethod(...)
- Introduce static methods to OpenSslKeyManagerFactory which allows to create a KeyManagerFactory which supports to do keyless operations by let the use handle everything in OpenSslPrivateKeyMethod.
- Add testcase which verifies that everything works as expected
Result:
A user is able to customize the way how keys are signed.
