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 codec-stomp tests
Result:
Related to https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/10757
Motivation:
ABORT and COMMIT commands were missing from the enum but they are part of the STOMP spec.
Modifications:
Modified the enum to add the missing commands.
Result:
ABORT and COMMIT commands can now be parsed properly and acted on.
Motivation:
Heart-beat is a functionality of STOMP enabling clients and servers to know the healthiness of the connection. The current decoder didn't allow for heart-beat messages to be forwarded to the decoder and were simply swallowed as part of the frame decoding.
Modifications:
Adding support for heartbeat message parsing by introducing a new HEARTBEAT command (not a real STOMP command).
Heartbeat received on the channel will trigger a StompFrame with the command set to HEARTBEAT.
Sending heartbeat on the channel is achieved by creating a StompFrame with the command set to HEARTBEAT.
Result:
Heartbeat can now be received/sent and acted upon to determine the healthiness of the connection and terminate it if needed.
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:
Not always STOMP frames contain any payload some times it just headers. So we wan't allocate additional buffer with NULL content for this situation.
Modification:
Modify StompSubframeEncoder to check if content is readable or not. If content is not readable just add NULL byte to encoded header buffer.
Result:
Less allocations
Motivation:
ByteBuf supports “marker indexes”. The intended use case for these is if a speculative operation (e.g. decode) is in process the user can “mark” and interface and refer to it later if the operation isn’t successful (e.g. not enough data). However this is rarely used in practice,
requires extra memory to maintain, and introduces complexity in the state management for derived/pooled buffer initialization, resizing, and other operations which may modify reader/writer indexes.
Modifications:
Remove support for marking and adjust testcases / code.
Result:
Fixes https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/8535.
Motivation:
Incorrect behavior for StompFrame.copy() method.
Modification:
Added copying of frame headers
Result:
When you call the StompFrame.copy() method, the headers are also copied.
Fixes [#7561].
Motivation:
By STOMP 1.2 specification - header name or value include any octet except CR or LF or ":".
Modification:
Add constructor argument that allows to enable / disable validation.
Result:
Fixes [#7083]
Motivation:
While working on #6087 some buffer leaks showed up.
Modifications:
Correctly release buffers.
Result:
No more buffer leaks in memcache and stomp codec tests.
Motivation:
The STOMP decoder used to fail when parsing a frame with no content-length
and a body split across multiple packets.
Modifications:
Support contentLength of -1 (indicating indeterminate length) and added a
check to getContentLength. Moved the NUL byte searching from the
readHeaders() method out to the main decoder loop.
Result:
A STOMP frame can be properly parsed even if it's missing the
content-length header and the NUL byte is in a later packet.
Motivation:
The HashingStrategy for DefaultStompHeaders was using the java .equals() method which would fail to compare String, AsciiString, and other CharSequence objects as equal.
Modification:
- Use AsciiString.CASE_SENSITIVE_HASHER for DefaultStompHeaders
Result:
DefaultStompHeaders work with all CharSequence objects.
Fixes https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/4247
Motivation:
A degradation in performance has been observed from the 4.0 branch as documented in https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/3962.
Modifications:
- Simplify Headers class hierarchy.
- Restore the DefaultHeaders to be based upon DefaultHttpHeaders from 4.0.
- Make various other modifications that are causing hot spots.
Result:
Performance is now on par with 4.0.
Motivation:
We noticed that the headers implementation in Netty for HTTP/2 uses quite a lot of memory
and that also at least the performance of randomly accessing a header is quite poor. The main
concern however was memory usage, as profiling has shown that a DefaultHttp2Headers
not only use a lot of memory it also wastes a lot due to the underlying hashmaps having
to be resized potentially several times as new headers are being inserted.
This is tracked as issue #3600.
Modifications:
We redesigned the DefaultHeaders to simply take a Map object in its constructor and
reimplemented the class using only the Map primitives. That way the implementation
is very concise and hopefully easy to understand and it allows each concrete headers
implementation to provide its own map or to even use a different headers implementation
for processing requests and writing responses i.e. incoming headers need to provide
fast random access while outgoing headers need fast insertion and fast iteration. The
new implementation can support this with hardly any code changes. It also comes
with the advantage that if the Netty project decides to add a third party collections library
as a dependency, one can simply plug in one of those very fast and memory efficient map
implementations and get faster and smaller headers for free.
For now, we are using the JDK's TreeMap for HTTP and HTTP/2 default headers.
Result:
- Significantly fewer lines of code in the implementation. While the total commit is still
roughly 400 lines less, the actual implementation is a lot less. I just added some more
tests and microbenchmarks.
- Overall performance is up. The current implementation should be significantly faster
for insertion and retrieval. However, it is slower when it comes to iteration. There is simply
no way a TreeMap can have the same iteration performance as a linked list (as used in the
current headers implementation). That's totally fine though, because when looking at the
benchmark results @ejona86 pointed out that the performance of the headers is completely
dominated by insertion, that is insertion is so significantly faster in the new implementation
that it does make up for several times the iteration speed. You can't iterate what you haven't
inserted. I am demonstrating that in this spreadsheet [1]. (Actually, iteration performance is
only down for HTTP, it's significantly improved for HTTP/2).
- Memory is down. The implementation with TreeMap uses on avg ~30% less memory. It also does not
produce any garbage while being resized. In load tests for GRPC we have seen a memory reduction
of up to 1.2KB per RPC. I summarized the memory improvements in this spreadsheet [1]. The data
was generated by [2] using JOL.
- While it was my original intend to only improve the memory usage for HTTP/2, it should be similarly
improved for HTTP, SPDY and STOMP as they all share a common implementation.
[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ck3RQklyzEcCLlyJoqDXPCWRGVUuS-ArZf0etSXLVDQ/edit#gid=0
[2] https://gist.github.com/buchgr/4458a8bdb51dd58c82b4
Motivation:
We have quite a bit of code duplication between HTTP/1, HTTP/2, SPDY,
and STOMP codec, because they all have a notion of 'headers', which is a
multimap of string names and values.
Modifications:
- Add TextHeaders and its default implementation
- Add AsciiString to replace HttpHeaderEntity
- Borrowed some portion from Apache Harmony's java.lang.String.
- Reimplement HttpHeaders, SpdyHeaders, and StompHeaders using
TextHeaders
- Add AsciiHeadersEncoder to reuse the encoding a TextHeaders
- Used a dedicated encoder for HTTP headers for better performance
though
- Remove shortcut methods in SpdyHeaders
- Replace SpdyHeaders.getStatus() with HttpResponseStatus.parseLine()
Result:
- Removed quite a bit of code duplication in the header implementations.
- Slightly better performance thanks to improved header validation and
hash code calculation
Motivation:
StompSubframeEncoderTest fails because StompHeaders does not respect the order of the headers set.
Modifications:
Use LinkedHashMap instead of HashMap
Result:
Fixes test failures
