Motivation:
Provide non-blocking XML parser as Netty codec.
Modifications:
New codec implemented/extracted.
io.netty.handler.codec.xml.XmlDecoder decodes XML fed by Netty without blocking.
Result:
Non-blocking XML stream parsing.
Motivation:
Currently CORS can be configured to support a 'null' origin, which can
be set by a browser if a resources is loaded from the local file system.
When this is done 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' will be set to "*" (any
origin). There is also a configuration option to allow credentials being
sent from the client (cookies, basic HTTP Authentication, client side
SSL). This is indicated by the response header
'Access-Control-Allow-Credentials' being set to true. When this is set
to true, the "*" origin is not valid as the value of
'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' and a browser will reject the request:
http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/#resource-requests
Modifications:
Updated CorsHandler's setAllowCredentials to check the origin and if it
is "*" then it will not add the 'Access-Control-Allow-Credentials'
header.
Result:
Is is possible to have a client send a 'null' origin, and at the same
time have configured the CORS to support that and to allow credentials
in that combination.
Motivation:
Release 4.0.25 was not usable in OSGi environments due to a simple typo.
An automated test could have caught the problem even before it was
committed.
Modifications:
This patch introduces a new artifact, osgitests, which pulls in all
production artifacts (which we want to be checked for OSGi compliance).
It contains only a single unit test, which runs a pax-exam container
with felix OSGi.
At initialization time, it scans all the artifact's dependencies,
looking for things belonging to io.netty group. The container is
configured to deploy those artifacts as bundles and fail if any bundle
is found to be unresolved. It performs a final check to see if any
bundles were tested this way, to make sure the mechanism is not
completely broken.
We are using wrappedBundle(), as two of our third-party dependencies do
not export packages correctly -- this masks the problem, assuming that
whoever deploys our artifacts depending on them will figure out how to
OSGify them.
Result:
Simple typos and other bundle manifest errors should be caught during
test phase of every build.
Motivation:
At the moment if you want to return a HTTP header containing multiple
values you have to set/add that header once with the values wanted. If
you used set/add with an array/iterable multiple HTTP header fields will
be returned in the response.
Note, that this is indeed a suggestion and additional work and tests
should be added. This is mainly to bring up a discussion.
Modifications:
Added a flag to specify that when multiple values exist for a single
HTTP header then add them as a comma separated string.
In addition added a method to StringUtil to help escape comma separated
value charsequences.
Result:
Allows for responses to be smaller.
Motivation:
We should allow to get a ChannelOption/AttributeKey from a String. This will make it a lot easier to make use of configuration files in applications.
Modifications:
- Add exists(...), newInstance(...) method to ChannelOption and AttributeKey and alter valueOf(...) to return an existing instance for a String or create one.
- Add unit tests.
Result:
Much more flexible usage of ChannelOption and AttributeKey.
Motivation:
As we plan to have other native transports soon (like a kqueue transport) we should move unix classes/interfaces out of the epoll package so we
introduce other implementations without breaking stuff before the next stable release.
Modifications:
Create a new io.netty.channel.unix package and move stuff over there.
Result:
Possible to introduce other native impls beside epoll.
Motivation:
This will avoid one unncessary method invokation which will slightly improve performance.
Modifications:
Instead of calling isReadable we just check for the value of readableBytes()
Result:
Nothing functionally speaking change.
Motivation:
At the moment we have two problems:
- CompositeByteBuf.addComponent(...) will not add the supplied buffer to the CompositeByteBuf if its empty, which means it will not be released on CompositeByteBuf.release() call. This is a problem as a user will expect everything added will be released (the user not know we not added it).
- CompositeByteBuf.addComponents(...) will either add no buffers if none is readable and so has the same problem as addComponent(...) or directly release the ByteBuf if at least one ByteBuf is readable. Again this gives inconsistent handling and may lead to memory leaks.
Modifications:
- Always add the buffer to the CompositeByteBuf and so release it on release call.
Result:
Consistent handling and no buffer leaks.
Motivation:
HttpToHttp2ConnectionHandlerTest was accidentally modified with a
debugging value for WAIT_TIME_SECONDS.
Modifications:
Reverted the change.
Result:
original wait time restored.
While implementing netty-handler-proxy, I realized various issues in our
current socksx package. Here's the list of the modifications and their
background:
- Split message types into interfaces and default implementations
- so that a user can implement an alternative message implementations
- Use classes instead of enums when a user might want to define a new
constant
- so that a user can extend SOCKS5 protocol, such as:
- defining a new error code
- defining a new address type
- Rename the message classes
- to avoid abbreviated class names. e.g:
- Cmd -> Command
- Init -> Initial
- so that the class names align better with the protocol
specifications. e.g:
- AuthRequest -> PasswordAuthRequest
- AuthScheme -> AuthMethod
- Rename the property names of the messages
- so that the property names align better when the field names in the
protocol specifications
- Improve the decoder implementations
- Give a user more control over when a decoder has to be removed
- Use DecoderResult and DecoderResultProvider to handle decode failure
gracefully. i.e. no more Unknown* message classes
- Add SocksPortUnifinicationServerHandler since it's useful to the users
who write a SOCKS server
- Cleaned up and moved from the socksproxy example
Motivation:
Sometimes it's useful to be able to create a Epoll*Channel from an existing file descriptor. This is especially helpful if you integrade some c/jni code.
Modifications:
- Add extra constructor to Epoll*Channel implementations that take a FileDescriptor as an argument
- Make Rename EpollFileDescriptor to NativeFileDescriptor and make it public
- Also ensure we obtain the correct remote/local address when create a Channel from a FileDescriptor
Result:
It's now possible to create a FileDescriptor and instance a Epoll*Channel via it.
Motivation:
There are various places in OpenSslEngine wher we can do performance optimizations.
Modifications:
- Reduce JNI calls when possible
- Detect finished handshake as soon as possible
- Eliminate double calculations
- wrap multiple ByteBuffer if possible in a loop
Result:
Better performance
Motivation:
If SO_LINGER is used shutdownOutput() and close() syscalls will block until either all data was send or until the timeout exceed. This is a problem when we try to execute them on the EventLoop as this means the EventLoop may be blocked and so can not process any other I/O.
Modifications:
- Add AbstractUnsafe.closeExecutor() which returns null by default and use this Executor for close if not null.
- Override the closeExecutor() in NioSocketChannel and EpollSocketChannel and return GlobalEventExecutor.INSTANCE if getSoLinger() > 0
- use closeExecutor() in shutdownInput(...) in NioSocketChannel and EpollSocketChannel
Result:
No more blocking of the EventLoop if SO_LINGER is used and shutdownOutput() or close() is called.
Motivation:
Currently, using a MessageAggregator in the pipeline always results in the creation of an unpooled heap CompositeByteBuf. By using the ByteBufAllocator the CompositeByteBuf will use the implementation specified by the ByteBufAllocator.
Modifications:
Use the ChannelHandlerContext's ByteBufAllocator to create the CompositeByteBuf for message aggregation
Result:
The CompositeByteBuf is now configured based on the ByteBufAllocator's settings.
Motivation:
Some of the methods are frequently called and so should be inlined if possible.
Modifications:
Give the compiler a hint that we want to inline these methods.
Result:
Better performance if inlined.
Motivation:
Older linux kernels have problems handling a large value for epoll_wait(...) and so wait for ever.
Modifications:
Adjust timeout on the fly if a too big value is passed in.
Result:
Correctly works also on older kernels.
Motivation:
The writeSpinCount was ignored in the epoll transport and it just kept on trying writing. This could cause unnessary cpu spinning if a slow remote peer was reading the data very very slow.
Modification:
- Correctly take writeSpinCount into account when writing.
Result:
Less cpu spinning when writing to a slow remote peer.
Motivation:
isRoot() is an expensive operation. We should avoid calling it if
possible.
Modifications:
Move the isRoot() checks to the end of the 'if' block, so that isRoot()
is evaluated only when really necessary.
Result:
isRoot() is evaluated only when SO_BROADCAST is set and the bind address
is anylocal address.
Motivation:
Fix regression introduced by 585ce1593f, which missed to set EPOLLRDHUP for all stream channels.
Modifications:
Correctly set EPOLLRDHUP for all stream channels in the AbstractEpollStreamChannel constructor.
Result:
No more test failures in EpollDomain*Channel tests.
Related:
- 27a25e29f7
Motivation:
The commit mentioned above introduced a regression where
channelReadComplete() event is swallowed by a handler which was added
dynamically.
Modifications:
Do not suppress channelReadComplete() if the current handler's
channelRead() method was not invoked at all, so that a just-added
handler does not suppress channelReadComplete().
Result:
Regression is gone, and channelReadComplete() is invoked when necessary.
Motivation:
Before we used a long[] to store the ready events, this had a few problems and limitations:
- An extra loop was needed to translate between epoll_event and our long
- JNI may need to do extra memory copy if the JVM not supports pinning
- More branches
Modifications:
- Introduce a EpollEventArray which allows to directly write in a struct epoll_event* and pass it to epoll_wait.
Result:
Better speed when using native transport, as shown in the benchmark.
Before:
[xxx@xxx wrk]$ ./wrk -H 'Connection: keep-alive' -d 120 -c 256 -t 16 -s scripts/pipeline-many.lua http://xxx:8080/plaintext
Running 2m test @ http://xxx:8080/plaintext
16 threads and 256 connections
Thread Stats Avg Stdev Max +/- Stdev
Latency 14.56ms 8.64ms 117.15ms 80.58%
Req/Sec 286.17k 38.71k 421.48k 68.17%
546324329 requests in 2.00m, 73.78GB read
Requests/sec: 4553438.39
Transfer/sec: 629.66MB
After:
[xxx@xxx wrk]$ ./wrk -H 'Connection: keep-alive' -d 120 -c 256 -t 16 -s scripts/pipeline-many.lua http://xxx:8080/plaintext
Running 2m test @ http://xxx:8080/plaintext
16 threads and 256 connections
Thread Stats Avg Stdev Max +/- Stdev
Latency 14.12ms 8.69ms 100.40ms 83.08%
Req/Sec 294.79k 40.23k 472.70k 66.75%
555997226 requests in 2.00m, 75.08GB read
Requests/sec: 4634343.40
Transfer/sec: 640.85MB
Motivation:
Even if a handler called ctx.fireChannelReadComplete(), the next handler
should not get its channelReadComplete() invoked if fireChannelRead()
was not invoked before.
Modifications:
- Ensure channelReadComplete() is invoked only when the handler of the
current context actually produced a message, because otherwise there's
no point of triggering channelReadComplete().
i.e. channelReadComplete() must follow channelRead().
- Fix a bug where ctx.read() was not called if the handler of the
current context did not produce any message, making the connection
stall. Read the new comment for more information.
Result:
- channelReadComplete() is invoked only when it makes sense.
- No stale connection
Motivation:
At the moment we log priming read and handshake errors via info log level and still throw a SSLException that contains the error. We should only log with debug level to generate less noise.
Modifications:
Change logging to debug level.
Result:
Less noise .
Motivation:
The Http2DefaultFrameWriter copies all contents into a buffer (or uses a CompositeBuffer in 1 case) and then writes that buffer to the socket. There is an opportunity to avoid the copy operations and write directly to the socket.
Modifications:
- Http2DefaultFrameWriter should avoid copy operations where possible.
- The Http2FrameWriter interface should be clarified to indicate that ByteBuf objects will be released.
Result:
Hopefully less allocation/copy leads to memory and throughput performance benefit.
Motivation:
Because of a re-entrance bug in PendingWriteQueue it was possible to get the queue corrupted and also trigger an IllegalStateException caused by multiple recycling of the internal PendingWrite objects.
Modifications:
- Correctly guard against re-entrance
Result:
No more IllegalStateException possible
Motivation:
To use WebSocketClientHandshaker / WebSocketServerHandshaker it's currently a requirement of having a HttpObjectAggregator in the ChannelPipeline. This is not a big deal when a user only wants to server WebSockets but is a limitation if the server serves WebSockets and normal HTTP traffic.
Modifications:
Allow to use WebSocketClientHandshaker and WebSocketServerHandshaker without HttpObjectAggregator in the ChannelPipeline.
Result:
More flexibility
Motivation:
Netty uses edge-triggered epoll by default for performance reasons. The downside here is that a messagesPerRead limit can not be enforced correctly, as we need to consume everything from the channel when notified.
Modification:
- Allow to switch epoll modes before channel is registered
- Some refactoring to share more code
Result:
It's now possible to switch epoll mode.
Motivation:
Http2Stream has several methods that provide state information. We need
to simplify how state is used and consolidate as many of these fields as
possible.
Modifications:
Since we already have a concept of a stream being active or inactive,
I'm now separating the deactivation of a stream from the act of closing
it. The reason for this is the case of sending a frame with
endOfStream=true. In this case we want to close the stream immediately
in order to disallow further writing, but we don't want to mark the
stream as inactive until the write has completed since the inactive
event triggers the flow controller to cancel any pending writes on the
stream.
With deactivation separated out, we are able to eliminate most of the
additional state methods with the exception of `isResetSent`. This is
still required because we need to ignore inbound frames in this case (as
per the spec), since the remote endpoint may not yet know that the
stream has been closed.
Result:
Fixes#3382
Motiviation:
When using domain sockets on linux it is supported to recv and send file descriptors. This can be used to pass around for example sockets.
Modifications:
- Add support for recv and send file descriptors when using EpollDomainSocketChannel.
- Allow to obtain the file descriptor for an Epoll*Channel so it can be send via domain sockets.
Result:
recv and send of file descriptors is supported now.
Motivation:
Using Unix Domain Sockets can be very useful when communication should take place on the same host and has less overhead then using loopback. We should support this with the native epoll transport.
Modifications:
- Add support for Unix Domain Sockets.
- Adjust testsuite to be able to reuse tests.
Result:
Unix Domain Sockets are now support when using native epoll transport.
Motivation:
SonarQube (clinker.netty.io/sonar) reported a resource which may not have been properly closed in all situations in AbstractDiskHttpData.
Modifications:
- Ensure file channels are closed in the presence of exceptions.
- Correct instances where local channels were created but potentially not closed.
Result:
Less leaks. Less SonarQube vulnerabilities.
Motivation:
SonarQube (clinker.netty.io/sonar) reported a few 'critical' issues related to the OpenSslEngine.
Modifications:
- Remove potential for dereference of null variable.
- Remove duplicate null check and TODO cleanup.
Results:
Less potential for null dereference, cleaner code, and 1 less TODO.
Motivation:
Previously flow-controller had to know the implementation details of each frame type in order to write it correctly. That concern is more correctly handled by the encoder. By encapsulating the payload types to be flow-controlled it will be easier to add support for extension types later. This change also fixes#3353.
Modifications:
Add interface FlowControlled which is now delivered to flow-controller.
Implement this interface for HEADERS and DATA
Refactor and improve tests for flow-control.
Result:
Flow control semantics are more cleanly separated for data encoding and implementation is simpler overall.
Motivation:
`HttpResponseDecoder` and `HttpRequestDecoder` in the event when the max configured sizes for HTTP initial line, headers or content is breached, sends a `DefaultHttpResponse` and `DefaultHttpRequest` respectively. After this `HttpObjectDecoder` gets into `BAD_MESSAGE` state and ignores any other data received on this connection.
The combination of the above two behaviors, means that the decoded response/request are not complete (absence of sending `LastHTTPContent`). So, any code, waiting for a complete message will have to additionally check for decoder result to follow the correct semantics of HTTP.
If `HttpResponseDecoder` and `HttpRequestDecoder` creates a Full* invalid message then the request/response is a complete HTTP message and hence obeys the HTTP contract.
Modification:
Modified `HttpRequestDecoder`, `HttpResponseDecoder`, `RtspRequestDecoder` and `RtspResponseDecoder` to return Full* messages from `createInvalidMessage()`
Result:
Fixes the wrong behavior of sending incomplete messages from these codecs
In testEncodingSingleCookieV0():
Let's assume we encoded a cookie with MaxAge=50 when currentTimeMillis
is 10999.
Because the encoder will not encode the millisecond part for Expires,
the timeMillis value of the encoded Expires field will be 60000. (If we
did not dropped the millisecond part, it would be 60999.)
Encoding a cookie will take some time, so currentTimeMillis will
increase slightly, such as to 11001.
diff = (60000 - 11001) / 1000 = 48999 / 1000 = 48
maxAge - diff = 50 - 48 = 2
Due to losing millisecond part twice, we end up with the precision
problem illustrated above, and thus we should increase the tolerance
from 1 second to 2 seconds.
/cc @slandelle
Motivation:
SslHandler adds a pending write with an empty buffer and a VoidChannelPromise when a user flush and not pending writes are currently stored. This may produce an IllegalStateException later if the user try to add a ChannelFutureListener to the promise in the next ChannelOutboundHandler.
Modifications:
Replace ctx.voidPromise() with ctx.newPromise()
Result:
No more IllegalStateException possible
Motivation:
At the moment the max number of events that can be handled per epoll wakup was set during construction.
Modifications:
- Automatically increase the max number of events to handle
Result:
Better performance when a lot of events need to be handled without adjusting the code.
Motivation:
The current way how the guard against overflow when generating the nextId() is pretty slow once an overflow happened.
Modifications:
Once a possible overflow is detected all ids used by the EpollEventLoop are scrubed and re-assigned to the registered Channels. This way we only need to do extra work each time an overflow is detected.
Result:
More consistent performance even after the first overflow was detected.
Motivation:
SSLEngine specifies that IllegalArgumentException must be thrown if a null argument is given when using wrap(...) or unwrap(...).
Modifications:
Replace NullPointerException with IllegalArgumentException to match the javadocs.
Result:
Match the javadocs.
Motivation:
We failed to correctly calculate the endOffset when wrap multiple ByteBuffer and so not wrapped everything when an offset > 0 is used.
Modifications:
Correctly calculate endOffset.
Result:
All ByteBuffers are correctly wrapped when offset > 0.
Motivation:
As the ByteBuf is not set to null after release it we may try to release it again in handleReadException()
Modifications:
- set ByteBuf to null to avoid another byteBuf.release() to be called in handleReadException()
Result:
No IllegalReferenceCountException anymore
Motivation:
On Linux, you can gather various metrics using getsockopt(..., TCP_INFO,
...).
Modifications:
Add EpollSocketChannel.tcpInfo() which returns EpollTcpInfo that exposes
all metrics exposed via getsockopt(..., TCP_INFO, ...)
Result:
TCP_INFO support implemented
Motivation:
The JdkZlibDecoder and JZlibDecoder call isReadable and readableBytes in the same method. There is an opportunity to reduce the number of methods calls to just use readableBytes. JdkZlibDecoder reads from a ByteBuf with an absolute index instead of using readerIndex()
Modifications:
- Use readableBytes where isReadable was used
- Correct absolute ByteBuf index to be relative to readerIndex()
Result:
Less method calls duplicating work and preventing an index out of bounds exception.
