Motivation:
At the moment the outbound operations of ChannelHandler take a Promise as argument. This Promise needs to be carried forward to the next handler in the pipeline until it hits the transport. This is API choice has a few quirks which we should aim to remove:
- There is a difference between if you add a FutureListener to the Promise or the Future that is returned by the outbound method in terms of the ordering of execution of the listeners. Sometimes we add the listener to the promise while in reality we usually always want to add it to the future to ensure the listerns are executed in the "correct order".
- It is quite easy to "loose" a promise by forgetting to use the right method which also takes a promise
- We have no idea what EventExecutor is used for the passed in Promise which may invalid our assumption of threading.
While changing the method signature of the outbound operations of the ChannelHandler is a good step forward we should also take care of just remove all the methods from ChannelOutboundInvoker (and its sub-types) that take a Promise and just always use the methods that return a Future only.
Modifications:
- Change the signature of the methods that took a Promise to not take one anymore and just return a Future
- Remove all operations for ChannelOutboundInvoker that take a Promise.
- Adjust all code to cope with the API changes
Result:
Cleaner API which is easier to reason about and easier to use.
Motivation:
Since most futures in Netty are of the `Void` type, methods like `getNow()` and `cause()` cannot distinguish if the future has finished or not.
This can cause data race bugs which, in the case of `Void` futures, can be silent.
Modification:
The methods `getNow()` and `cause()` now throw an `IllegalStateException` if the future has not yet completed.
Most use of these methods are inside listeners, and so are not impacted.
One place in `AbstractBootstrap` was doing a racy read and has been adjusted.
Result:
Data race bugs around `getNow()` and `cause()` are no longer silent.
Motivation:
The generics for the existing futures, promises, and listeners are too complicated.
This complication comes from the existence of `ChannelPromise` and `ChannelFuture`, which forces listeners to care about the particular _type_ of future being listened on.
Modification:
* Add a `FutureContextListener` which can take a context object as an additional argument. This allows our listeners to have the channel piped through to them, so they don't need to rely on the `ChannelFuture.channel()` method.
* Make the `FutureListener`, along with the `FutureContextListener` sibling, the default listener API, retiring the `GenericFutureListener` since we no longer need to abstract over the type of the future.
* Change all uses of `ChannelPromise` to `Promise<Void>`.
* Change all uses of `ChannelFuture` to `Future<Void>`.
* Change all uses of `GenericFutureListener` to either `FutureListener` or `FutureContextListener` as needed.
* Remove `ChannelFutureListener` and `GenericFutureListener`.
* Introduce a `ChannelFutureListeners` enum to house the constants that previously lived in `ChannelFutureListener`. These constants now implement `FutureContextListener` and take the `Channel` as a context.
* Remove `ChannelPromise` and `ChannelFuture` — all usages now rely on the plain `Future` and `Promise` APIs.
* Add static factory methods to `DefaultPromise` that allow us to create promises that are initialised as successful or failed.
* Remove `CompleteFuture`, `SucceededFuture`, `FailedFuture`, `CompleteChannelFuture`, `SucceededChannelFuture`, and `FailedChannelFuture`.
* Remove `ChannelPromiseNotifier`.
Result:
Cleaner generics and more straight forward code.
Motivation:
We should make variables `final` which are not reinstated again in code to match the code style and makes the code look better.
Modification:
Made couples of variables as `final`.
Result:
Variables marked as `final`.
Motivation:
Let's have fewer warnings about broken, missing, or abuse of javadoc comments.
Modification:
Added descriptions to throws clauses that were missing them.
Remove link clauses from throws clauses - these are implied.
Turned some javadoc comments into block comments because they were not applied to APIs.
Use code clauses instead of code tags.
Result:
Fewer javadoc crimes.
Motivation:
There are lots of imports which are unused. We should get rid of them to make the code look better,
Modification:
Removed unused imports.
Result:
No unused imports.
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:
Since Java 7, there are new constructors available that allow us to avoid initialising the stack traces of certain exceptions.
Modification:
Use these constructors instead of overriding Throwable.fillInStackTrace.
Result:
Cleaner code
Motivation:
Users may want to clear the cache manually. For this it should be possible to access it first.
Modifications:
Change the visibility to public
Result:
Be able to clear the cache manually. Related to https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/11519
__Motivation__
Upon receiving a DNS answer, we match whether the name in the question matches the name in the record. Some DNS servers we have encountered append a search domain to the record name which fails this match. eg: for question name `netty` and search domains `io` and `com`, we will do 2 queries: `netty.io.` and `netty.com.`, if the answer for `netty.io` contains `netty.com` then we ignore this record.
__Modification__
If the name in the record does not match the name in the question, append configured search domains to the question name to see if it matches the record name.
__Result__
Records names with appended search domains are still returned as valid answers.
Motivation:
The tests must be executed only when there is no hosts file or
there is no entry for localhost in the hosts file. The tested functionality
is relevant only in these use cases.
Modifications:
Skip the windows tests when there is an entry for localhost in the hosts file.
Result:
Fix failing tests on Windows CI when using GitHub Actions
Related to #11384
Motivation:
Sometime in the past we introduced the concept of Void*Promise. As it turned out this was not a good idea at all as basically each handler in the pipeline need to be very careful to correctly handle this. We should better just remove this "optimization".
Modifications:
- Remove Void*Promise and all the related APIs
- Remove tests which were related to Void*Promise
Result:
Less error-prone API
Motivation:
JUnit 5 is more expressive, extensible, and composable in many ways, and it's better able to run tests in parallel.
Modifications:
Use JUnit5 in tests
Result:
Related to https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/10757
Motivation:
DefaultHostsFileEntriesResolver should provide all hosts file's entries for a hostname when
DnsNameResolver#resolveAll as opposed to the current implementation where only the first
entry is taken into consideration
Modification:
- Add DefaultHostsFileEntriesResolver#addresses to provide all hosts file's entries for a hostname
- Add HostsFileEntriesProvider to provide all hosts file's entries for a hostname and to keep
backwards compatibility for HostsFileEntries and HostsFileParser
- DnsNameResolver#resolveAll uses the new DefaultHostsFileEntriesResolver#addresses
- BlockHound configuration: replace HostsFileParser#parse with HostsFileEntriesProvider$ParserImpl#parse
as the latter does the parsing
- Add junit tests
Result:
Fixes#10834
Motivation:
DNS resolver falls back to trying CNAME if no records found, but should
only try this for A/AAAA queries. Does not make sense for other query
types, results in a redundant CNAME query that is just going to fail.
Modification:
Check query type before deciding to try CNAME. Only proceed if type is A
or AAAA.
Added unit test to verify CNAME is only tried after A/AAAA queries.
Result:
Fixes#11214.
Motivation:
NullChecks resulting in a NullPointerException or IllegalArgumentException, numeric ranges (>0, >=0) checks, not empty strings/arrays checks must never be anonymous but with the parameter or variable name which is checked. They must be specific and should not be done with an "OR-Logic" (if a == null || b == null) throw new NullPointerEx.
Modifications:
* import static relevant checks
* Replace manual checks with ObjectUtil methods
Result:
All checks needed are done with ObjectUtil, some exception texts are improved in microbench and resolver-dns
Fixes#11170
Motivation:
On Windows DnsNameResolver is not able to resolve the host(computer) name as it is not in the hosts file and the DNS server is also not able to resolve it.
The exception below is the result of the resolution:
Caused by: java.net.UnknownHostException: failed to resolve 'host(computer)-name' after 2 queries
at io.netty.resolver.dns.DnsResolveContext.finishResolve(DnsResolveContext.java:1013)
at io.netty.resolver.dns.DnsResolveContext.tryToFinishResolve(DnsResolveContext.java:966)
at io.netty.resolver.dns.DnsResolveContext.query(DnsResolveContext.java:414)
at io.netty.resolver.dns.DnsResolveContext.tryToFinishResolve(DnsResolveContext.java:938)
at io.netty.resolver.dns.DnsResolveContext.access$700(DnsResolveContext.java:63)
at io.netty.resolver.dns.DnsResolveContext$2.operationComplete(DnsResolveContext.java:467)
Modifications:
On Windows DnsNameResolver maps host(computer) name to LOCALHOST
Result:
DnsNameResolver is able to resolve the host(computer) name on Windows
Fixes#11142
Motivation:
The DnsResolver default start address listen to "0.0.0.0", which may be not what the user wants.
Modification:
Add localAddress as a param of DnsNameResolver and its builder
Result:
The DnsNameResolver's bind address can be configured.
Motivation:
It is not uncommon to run Netty on OS X without the specific
`MacOSDnsServerAddressStreamProvider`. The current log message is too
verbose because it prints a full stack trace on the console while a
simple logging message would have been enough.
Modifications:
- Print a `WARN` message when `MacOSDnsServerAddressStreamProvider`
class is not found;
- Print a `ERROR` message with a stack trace when the class was found
but could not be loaded due to some other reasons;
Result:
Less noise in logs.
Motivation:
When etcResolver/hosts files are parsed, FileInputStream.read(...) is internally called by
- UnixResolverDnsServerAddressStreamProvider#parseEtcResolverSearchDomains
- UnixResolverDnsServerAddressStreamProvider#parseEtcResolverOptions
- HostsFileParser#parse
This will cause the error below when BlockHound is enabled
reactor.blockhound.BlockingOperationError: Blocking call! java.io.FileInputStream#readBytes
at java.io.FileInputStream.readBytes(FileInputStream.java)
at java.io.FileInputStream.read(FileInputStream.java:255)
Modifications:
- Add whitelist entries to BlockHound configuration
- Fix typos in UnixResolverDnsServerAddressStreamProvider
- Add tests
Result:
Fixes#11004
Motivation:
`DnsServerAddressStreamProviders` tries to load `MacOSDnsServerAddressStreamProvider`
on macOS. However, it doesn't warn users when `MacOSDnsServerAddressStreamProvider`
is not awailable, which may cause incorrect results for DNS resolutions.
Modifications:
- Log at warn level if `MacOSDnsServerAddressStreamProvider` is not found on macOS;
- Log at debug level when `MacOSDnsServerAddressStreamProvider` is loaded and available;
Result:
macOS users are notified when `MacOSDnsServerAddressStreamProvider` is not available.
Motivation:
The DnsNameResolver internally follows CNAME indirects for all records types, and supports caching for CNAME resolution and A* records. For DNS record types that are not cached (e.g. SRV records) the caching of CNAME records may result in failures at incorrect times. For example if a CNAME record has a larger TTL than the entries it resolves this may result in failures which don't occur if the CNAME cache is disabled.
Modifications:
- Don't cache CNAME and also dont use the cache for CNAME when using DnsRecordResolveContext
- Add unit test
Result:
More correct resolving and also not possible to have failures due CNAME still be in the cache while the queried record experied
Motivation:
https in xmlns URIs does not work and will let the maven release plugin fail:
```
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 1.779 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2020-11-10T07:45:21Z
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:2.5.3:prepare (default-cli) on project netty-parent: Execution default-cli of goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:2.5.3:prepare failed: The namespace xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" could not be added as a namespace to "project": The namespace prefix "xsi" collides with an additional namespace declared by the element -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
```
See also https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-24014.
Modifications:
Use http for xmlns
Result:
Be able to use maven release plugin
Motivation:
Since GraalVM version 19.3.0, instances of java.net.InetAddress (and its subclasses Inet4Address and Inet6Address) are not allowed in native image heap (that is, they cannot be stored in static fields of classes initialized at build time or be reachable through static fields of such classes). When building a native image, it makes sense to initialize at build time as many classes as possible.
But some fields of some classes in Netty (for example, NetUtil.LOCALHOST4) contain InetAddress instances. If a program is using code path that makes it possible to reach such fields at build time initialization, it becomes impossible to build a native image initializing core Netty classes initialized at runtime. An example of such a program is a client that uses netty-dns.
Modifications:
- Add netty-testsuite-native-image-client Maven module to test that such an example program can be built after the corresponding fixes
- Add native-image.properties to resolver-dns module to move initialization of some classes to runtime (some of them are parsing configuration during initialization, so it makes no sense to initialize them at build time; for others, it's needed to avoid InetAddress reachability at build time)
- Add substitutions for NetUtil.LOCALHOST4, NetUtil.LOCALHOST6 and NetUtil.LOCALHOST to overcome the InetAddress-related prohibition
- Extract some initialization code from NetUtil to NetUtilInitializations to allow it to be used by the substitutions
Result:
A client program using netty-dns with --initialize-at-build-time=io.netty builds successfully
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:
LGTM reports multiple issues. They need to be triaged,
and real ones should be fixed.
Modifications:
- Fixed multiple issues reported by LGTM, such as redundant conditions,
resource leaks, typos, possible integer overflows.
- Suppressed false-positives.
- Added a few testcases.
Result:
Fixed several possible issues, get rid of false alarms in the LGTM report.
Motivation:
We have a few classes in which we store and reuse static instances of various exceptions. When doing so it is important to also override fillInStacktrace() and so prevent the leak of the ClassLoader in the internal backtrace field.
Modifications:
- Add overrides of fillInStracktrace when needed
- Move ThrowableUtil usage in the static methods
Result:
Fixes https://github.com/netty/netty/pull/10686
Motivation:
Due a change introduced in 68105b257d we incorrectly skipped the usage of nameservers in some cases.
Modifications:
Only fetch a new stream of nameserver if the hostname not matches the original hostname in the query.
Result:
Use all configured nameservers. Fixes https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/10499
Expose a LoggingDnsQueryLifeCycleObserverFactory
Motivation:
There is a use case for having logging in the DnsNameResolver, similar to the LoggingHandler.
Previously, one could set `traceEnabled` on the DnsNameResolverBuilder, but this is not very configurable.
Specifically, the log level and the logger context cannot be changed.
Modification:
Expose a LoggingDnsQueryLifeCycleObserverFactory, that permit changing the log-level
and logger context.
Result:
It is now possible to get logging in the DnsNameResolver at a custom log level and logger,
without very much effort.
Fixes#10485
Motivation:
We need limit the number of queries done to resolve unresolved nameserver as otherwise we may never fail the resolve when there is a missconfigured dns server that lead to a "resolve loop".
Modifications:
- When resolve unresolved nameservers ensure we use the allowedQueries as max upper limit for queries so it will eventually fail
- Add unit tests
Result:
No more possibility to fail in a loop while resolve. This is related to https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/10420
Motivation:
DnsAddressResolverGroup allows to be constructed with a DnsNameResolverBuilder and so should respect its configured EventLoop.
Modifications:
- Correctly respect the configured EventLoop
- Ensure there are no thread-issues by calling copy()
- Add unit tests
Result:
Fixes https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/10460
Motivation:
If we cancel the returned future of resolve query, we may get LEAK. Try to release the ByteBuf if netty can't pass the DnsRawRecord to the caller.
Modification:
Using debug mode I saw there are two places that don't handle trySuccess with release. Try to release there.
Result:
Fixes#10447.
Motivation:
There is a possibility to end up with a StackOverflowError when trying to resolve authorative nameservers because of incorrect wrapping the AuthoritativeDnsServerCache.
Modifications:
Ensure we don't end up with an overflow due wrapping
Result:
Fixes https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/10246
Motivation:
Once a CNAME loop was detected we can just fail fast and so reduce the number of queries.
Modifications:
Fail fast once a CNAME loop is detected
Result:
Fail fast
Motivation:
We did use a HashSet to detect CNAME cache loops which needs allocations. We can use an algorithm that doesnt need any allocations
Modifications:
Use algorithm that doesnt need allocations
Result:
Less allocations on the slow path
Motivation:
The nameserver that should / must be used to resolve a CNAME may be different then the nameserver that was selected for the hostname to resolve. Failing to select the correct nameserver may result in problems during resolution.
Modifications:
Use the correct DnsServerAddressStream for CNAMEs
Result:
Always use the correct DnsServerAddressStream for CNAMEs and so fix resolution failures which could accour when CNAMEs are in the mix that use a different domain then the original hostname that we try to resolve
Motivation:
We should only log with warn level if something really critical happens as otherwise we may spam logs and confuse the user.
Modifications:
- Change log level to debug for most cases
Result:
Less noisy logging
Motivation:
We need to detect CNAME loops during lookup the DnsCnameCache as otherwise we may try to follow cnames forever.
Modifications:
- Correctly detect CNAME loops in the cache
- Add unit test
Result:
Fixes https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/10220
Motivations
-----------
DnsNameResolverBuilder and DnsNameResolver do not auto-configure
themselves uing default options define in /etc/resolv.conf.
In particular, rotate, timeout and attempts options are ignored.
Modifications
-------------
- Modified UnixResolverDnsServerAddressStreamProvider to parse ndots,
attempts and timeout options all at once and use these defaults to
configure DnsNameResolver when values are not provided by the
DnsNameResolverBuilder.
- When rotate option is specified, the DnsServerAddresses returned by
UnixResolverDnsServerAddressStreamProvider is rotational.
- Amend resolv.conf options with the RES_OPTIONS environment variable
when present.
Result:
Fixes https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/10202
Motivation:
A user might want to cancel DNS resolution when it takes too long.
Currently, there's no way to cancel the internal DNS queries especially when there's a lot of search domains.
Modification:
- Stop sending a DNS query if the original `Promise`, which was passed calling `resolve()`, is canceled.
Result:
- You can now stop sending DNS queries by cancelling the `Promise`.
Motivation:
Related https://github.com/line/armeria/issues/2463
Here is an example that an NIC has only link local address for IPv6.
```
$ ipaddr
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: eth0@if18692: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP,M-DOWN> mtu 1460 qdisc noqueue
link/ether 1a:5e:xx:xx:xx:xx brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 10.xxx.xxx.xxx/24 scope global eth0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 fe80::xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
```
If the NICs have only local or link local addresses, We should not send IPv6 DNS queris.
Modification:
- Ignore link-local IPv6 addresses which may exist even on a machine without IPv6 network.
Result:
- `DnsNameResolver` does not send DNS queries for AAAA when IPv6 is not available.
Motivation:
As we have java8 as a minimum target we can use MethodHandles. We should do so when we expect to have a method called multiple times.
Modifications:
- Replace usage of reflection with MethodHandles where it makes sense
- Remove some code which was there to support java < 8
Result:
Faster code
Motivation:
939e928312 introduced MacOSDnsServerAddressStreamProvider which will ensure the right nameservers are selected when running on MacOS. To ensure this is done automatically on MacOS we should use it by default on these platforms.
Modifications:
Try to use MacOSDnsServerAddressStreamProvider when on MacOS via reflection and fallback if not possible
Result:
Ensure the right nameservers are used on MacOS even when a VPN (for example) is used.
Motivation:
In general, we will close the debug log in a product environment. However, logging without external level check may still affect performance as varargs will need to allocate an array.
Modification:
Add log level check simply before logging.
Result:
Improve performance slightly in a product environment.
Motivation:
In next major version of netty users should use ChannelHandler everywhere. We should ensure we do the same
Modifications:
Replace usage of deprecated classes / interfaces with ChannelHandler
Result:
Use non-deprecated code
Motivation:
The resolver API and implementations should be considered stable by now so we should not mark these with @UnstableApi
Modifications:
Remove @UnstableApi annotation from API and implementation of resolver
Result:
Make it explicit that the API is considered stable
