Motivation:
The usage and code within AsciiString has exceeded the original design scope for this class. Its usage as a binary string is confusing and on the verge of violating interface assumptions in some spots.
Modifications:
- ByteString will be created as a base class to AsciiString. All of the generic byte handling processing will live in ByteString and all the special character encoding will live in AsciiString.
Results:
The AsciiString interface will be clarified. Users of AsciiString can now be clear of the limitations the class imposes while users of the ByteString class don't have to live with those limitations.
Motivation:
SslContext factory methods have gotten out of control; it's past time to
swap to a builder.
Modifications:
New Builder class. The existing factory methods must be left as-is for
backward compatibility.
Result:
Fixes#3531
Motivation:
We missed to flush the channel when using HttpChunkedInput (this is done when using SSL). This will result in a stale.
Modifications:
Replace ctx.write(...) with ctx.writeAndFlush(...)
Result:
Correctly working example.
Motivation:
To support HTTP2 we need APLN support. This was not provided before when using OpenSslEngine, so SSLEngine (JDK one) was the only bet.
Beside this CipherSuiteFilter was not supported
Modifications:
- Upgrade netty-tcnative and make use of new features to support ALPN and NPN in server and client mode.
- Guard against segfaults after the ssl pointer is freed
- support correctly different failure behaviours
- add support for CipherSuiteFilter
Result:
Be able to use OpenSslEngine for ALPN / NPN for server and client.
Motivation:
The DefaultHttp2ConnectionDecoder class is calling verifyPrefaceReceived() for almost every frame event at all times.
The Http2ConnectionHandler class is calling readClientPrefaceString() on every decode event.
Modifications:
- DefaultHttp2ConnectionDecoder should not have to continuously call verifyPrefaceReceived() because it transitions boolean state 1 time for each connection.
- Http2ConnectionHandler should not have to continuously call readClientPrefaceString() because it transitions boolean state 1 time for each connection.
Result:
- Less conditional checks for the mainstream usage of the connection.
Motivation:
The Http2FrameLogger is currently using the internal logging classes. We should change this so that it's using the public classes and then converts internally.
Modifications:
Modified Http2FrameLogger and the examples to use the public LogLevel class.
Result:
Fixes#2512
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:
The terminology used with inbound/outbound is a little confusing since
it's not discussed in the spec. We should switch to using local/remote
instead. Also there is some asymmetry between the inbound/outbound
interfaces which could probably be cleaned up.
Modifications:
Changing the interface names and making a common Http2FlowController
interface for most of the methods.
Result:
The HTTP/2 flow control interfaces should be more clear.
Motivation:
The example MemcacheClient set command doesn't work.
Modifications:
Fill the extras field buffer with zeros so that it gets written to the
request payload.
Result:
The example MemcacheClient set command works.
Related: #3122
Motivation:
The HttpStaticFileServer example writes the LastHttpContent twice at the
end of the transfer. HttpChunkedInput already produces a
LastHttpContent at the end of the stream, so there's no reason to write
another.
Modifications:
Do not write LastHttpContent in HttpStaticFileServerHandler when
HttpChunkedInput is used to transfer a file.
Result:
HttpStaticFileServer does not violates the protocol anymore.
Motivation:
When running the examples using the provided run-examples.sh script the
log level is 'info' level. It can be handy to be able to configure a
different level, for example 'debug', while learning and trying out the
the examples.
Modifications:
Added a dependency to logback-classic to the examples pom.xml, and also
added a logback configuration file. The log level can be configured by
setting the 'logLevel' system property, and if that property is not set
the default will be 'info' level.
The run-examples.sh was updated to show an example of using the system
property to set the log level to 'debug'
Result:
It is now possible to turn on debug logging by settnig a system property
on the command line.
Motivation:
When DefaultHttp2FrameReader has read a settings frame, the settings
will be passed along the pipeline. This allows a client to hold off
sending data until it has received a settings frame. But for a server it
will always have received a settings frame and the usefulness of this
forwarding of settings is less useful. This also causes a debug message
to be logged on the server side if there is no channel handler to handle
the settings:
[nioEventLoopGroup-1-1] DEBUG io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline -
Discarded inbound message {INITIAL_WINDOW_SIZE=131072,
MAX_FRAME_SIZE=16384} that reached at the tail of the pipeline. Please
check your pipeline configuration.
Modifications:
Added a builder for the InboundHttp2ToHttpAdapter and
InboundHttp2PriortyAdapter and a new parameter named 'propagateSettings'
to their constructors.
Result:
It is now possible to control whether settings should be passed along
the pipeline or not.
Motivation:
I found myself writing AsciiString constants in my code for
response statuses and thought that perhaps it might be nice to have
them defined by Netty instead.
Modifications:
Adding codeAsText to HttpResponseStatus that returns the status code as
AsciiText.
In addition, added the 421 Misdirected Request response code from
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-15#section-9.1.2
This response header was renamed in draft 15:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-15#appendix-A.1
But the code itself was not changed, and I thought using the latest would
be better.
Result:
It is now possible to specify a status like this:
new DefaultHttp2Headers().status(HttpResponseStatus.OK.codeAsText());
Motivation:
Found performance issues via FindBugs and PMD.
Modifications:
- Removed unnecessary boxing/unboxing operations in DefaultTextHeaders.convertToInt(CharSequence) and DefaultTextHeaders.convertToLong(CharSequence). A boxed primitive is created from a string, just to extract the unboxed primitive value.
- Added a static modifier for DefaultHttp2Connection.ParentChangedEvent class. This class is an inner class, but does not use its embedded reference to the object which created it. This reference makes the instances of the class larger, and may keep the reference to the creator object alive longer than necessary.
- Added a static compiled Pattern to avoid compile it each time it is used when we need to replace some part of authority.
- Improved using of StringBuilders.
Result:
Performance improvements.
Motivation:
The current name of the class which converts from HTTP objects to HTTP/2 frames contains the text Http2ToHttp. This is misleading and opposite of what is being done.
Modifications:
Rename this class name to be HttpToHttp2.
Result:
Class names that more clearly identify what they do.
Currently the DefaultHttp2InboundFlowController only supports the
ability to turn on and off "window maintenance" for a stream. This is
insufficient for true application-level flow control that may only want
to return a few bytes to flow control at a time.
Modifications:
Removing "window maintenance" interface from
DefaultHttp2InboundFlowController in favor of the new interface.
Created the Http2InboundFlowState interface which extends Http2FlowState
to add the ability to return bytes for a specific stream.
Changed the onDataRead method to return an integer number of bytes that
will be immediately returned to flow control, to support use cases that
want to opt-out of application-level inbound flow control.
Updated DefaultHttp2InboundFlowController to use 2 windows per stream.
The first, "window", is the actual flow control window that is
decremented as soon as data is received. The second "processedWindow"
is a delayed view of "window" that is only decremented after the
application returns the processed bytes. It is processedWindow that is
used when determining when to send a WINDOW_UPDATE to restore part of
the inbound flow control window for the stream/connection.
Result:
The HTTP/2 inbound flow control interfaces support application-level
flow control.
Motivation:
Too many warnings from IntelliJ IDEA code inspector, PMD and FindBugs.
Modifications:
- Removed unnecessary casts, braces, modifiers, imports, throws on methods, etc.
- Added static modifiers where it is possible.
- Fixed incorrect links in javadoc.
Result:
Better code.
Motivation:
When running the http2 example no SslProvider is specified when calling
SslContext.newServerContext. This may lead to the provider being
determined depending on the availabilty of OpenSsl. But as far as I can
tell the OpenSslServerContext does not support APLN, which is the
protocol configured in the example.
This produces the following error when running the example:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException:
OpenSSL provider does not support ALPN protocol
io.netty.handler.ssl.OpenSslServerContext.toNegotiator(OpenSslServerContext.java:391)
io.netty.handler.ssl.OpenSslServerContext.<init>(OpenSslServerContext.java:117)
io.netty.handler.ssl.SslContext.newServerContext(SslContext.java:238)
io.netty.handler.ssl.SslContext.newServerContext(SslContext.java:184)
io.netty.handler.ssl.SslContext.newServerContext(SslContext.java:124)
io.netty.example.http2.server.Http2Server.main(Http2Server.java:51)
Modifications:
Force SslProvider.JDK when creating the SslContext since the
example is using APLN.
Result:
There is no longer an error if OpenSsl is supported on the platform in
use.
Motivation:
There are a few very minor issues in the Http2 examples javadoc and
since I don't think that these javadocs are published this is very much
optional to include.
Modifications:
Updated the @see according to [1] to avoid warning when generating
javadocs.
Result:
No warning when generating javadocs.
[1] http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/tooldocs/windows/javadoc.html#@see
Related: 4ce994dd4f
Motivation:
In 4.1, we were not able to change the type of the HTTP header name and
value constants from String to AsciiString due to backward compatibility
reasons.
Instead of breaking backward compatibility in 4.1, we introduced new
types called HttpHeaderNames and HttpHeaderValues which provides the
AsciiString version of the constants, and then deprecated
HttpHeaders.Names/Values.
We should make the same changes while deleting the deprecated classes
activaly.
Modifications:
- Remove HttpHeaders.Names/Values and RtspHeaders
- Add HttpHeaderNames/Values and RtspHeaderNames/Values
- Make HttpHeaderValues.WEBSOCKET lowercased because it's actually
lowercased in all WebSocket versions but the oldest one
- Do not use AsciiString.equalsIgnoreCase(CharSeq, CharSeq) if one of
the parameters are AsciiString
- Avoid using AsciiString.toString() repetitively
- Change the parameter type of some methods from String to
CharSequence
Result:
A user who upgraded from 4.0 to 4.1 first and removed the references to
the deprecated classes and methods can easily upgrade from 4.1 to 5.0.
Motivation:
If there are no common protocols in the ALPN protocol exchange we still compete the handshake successfully. This handshake should fail according to http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7301#section-3.2 with a status of no_application_protocol. The specification also allows for the server to "play dumb" and not advertise that it supports ALPN in this case (see MAY clauses in http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7301#section-3.1)
Modifications:
-Upstream project used for ALPN (alpn-boot) does not support this. So a PR https://github.com/jetty-project/jetty-alpn/pull/3 was submitted.
-The netty code using alpn-boot should support the new interface (return null on existing method).
-Version number of alpn-boot must be updated in pom.xml files
Result:
-Netty fails the SSL handshake if ALPN is used and there are no common protocols.
Motivation:
As report in #2953 the websocket server example contained a bug and did therefore not work with chrome:
A websocket extension is added to the pipeline but extensions were disallowed in the handshaker and decoder,
which is leading the decoder to closing the connection after receiving an extension frame.
Modifications:
Allow websocket extensions in the handshaker to correctly enable the extension.
Result:
Working websocket server example
Fixes#2953
Motivation:
Headers within netty do not cleanly share a common class hierarchy. As a result some header types support some operations
and don't support others. The consolidation of the class hierarchy will allow for maintenance and scalability for new codec.
The existing hierarchy also has a few short comings such as it is not clear when data conversions are happening. This
could result unintentionally getting back a collection or iterator where a conversion on each entry must happen.
The current headers algorithm also prepends all elements which means to find the first element or return a collection
in insertion order often requires a complete traversal followed by a collections.reverse call.
Modifications:
-Provide a generic base class which provides all the implementation for headers in netty
-Provide an extension to this class which allows for name type conversions to happen (to accommodate legacy CharSequence to String conversions)
-Update the headers interface to clarify when conversions will happen.
-Update the headers data structure so that appends are done to avoid unnecessary iteration or collection reversal.
Result:
-More unified class hierarchy for headers in netty
-Improved headers data structure and algorithms
-headers API more clearly identify when conversions are required.
Related issue: #1133
Motivation:
There is no support for client socket connections via a proxy server in
Netty.
Modifications:
- Add a new module 'handler-proxy'
- Add ProxyHandler and its subclasses to support SOCKS 4a/5 and HTTP(S)
proxy connections
- Add a full parameterized test for most scenarios
- Clean up pom.xml
Result:
A user can make an outgoing connection via proxy servers with only
trivial effort.
Motiviation:
The HTTP/2 server example is not using the outbound flow control. It is instead using a FrameWriter directly.
This can lead to flow control errors and other comm. related errors
Modifications:
-Force server example to use outbound flow controller
Result:
-Server example should use follow flow control rules.
Motivation:
It is often helpful to measure the performance of connections, e.g. the
latency and the throughput. This can be performed through benchmarks.
Modification:
This adds a simple but configurable benchmark for websockets into the
example directory. The Netty WebSocket server will echo all received
websocket frames and will provide an HTML/JS page which serves as the
client for the benchmark.
The benchmark also provides a verification mode that verifies the sent
against the received data. This can be used for the verification ob
websocket frame encoding and decoding funtionality.
Result:
A benchmark is added in form a further Netty websocket example.
With this benchmark it is easily possible to measure the performance between Netty and a browser
Motivation:
The HTTP/2 example can timeout at the client waiting for a response due
to the server not flushing after writing the response.
Modifications:
Updated the server's HelloWorldHttp2Handler to flush after writing the
response.
Result:
The HTTP/2 example runs successfully.
Motivation:
HTTP/2 codec does not properly test exception passed to
exceptionCaught() for instanceof Http2Exception (since the exception
will always be wrapped in a PipelineException), so it will never
properly handle Http2Exceptions in the pipeline.
Also if any streams are present, the connection close logic will execute
twice when a pipeline exception. This is because the exception logic
calls ctx.close() which then triggers the handleInActive() logic to
execute. This clears all of the remaining streams and then attempts to
run the closeListener logic (which has already been run).
Modifications:
Changed exceptionCaught logic to properly extract Http2Exception from
the PipelineException. Also added logic to the closeListener so that is
only run once.
Changed Http2CodecUtil.toHttp2Exception() to avoid NPE when creating
an exception with cause.getMessage().
Refactored Http2ConnectionHandler to more cleanly separate inbound and
outbound flows (Http2ConnectionDecoder/Http2ConnectionEncoder).
Added a test for verifying that a pipeline exception closes the
connection.
Result:
Exception handling logic is tidied up.
Motivation:
The HTTP/2 codec has some duplication and the read/write interfaces are not cleanly exposed to users of the codec.
Modifications:
-Restructure the AbstractHttp2ConnectionHandler class to be able to extend write behavior before the outbound flow control gets the data
-Add Http2InboundConnectionHandler and Http2OutboundConnectionHandler interfaces and restructure external codec interface around these concepts
Result:
HTTP/2 codec provides a cleaner external interface which is easy to extend for read/write events.
Motivation:
We incorrectly used SslContext.newServerContext() in some places where a we needed a client context.
Modifications:
Use SslContext.newClientContext() when using ssl on the client side.
Result:
Working ssl client examples.
Motivation:
The current implementation of the HTTP/2 decompression does not integrate with flow control properly.
The decompression code is giving the post-decompression size to the flow control algorithm which
results in flow control errors at incorrect times.
Modifications:
-DecompressorHttp2FrameReader.java will need to change where it hooks into the HTTP/2 codec
-Enhance unit tests to test this condition
Result:
No more flow control errors because of decompression design flaw
Motivation:
The HTTP/2 spec does not restrict headers to being String. The current
implementation of the HTTP/2 codec uses Strings as header keys and
values. We should change this so that header keys and values allow
binary values.
Modifications:
Making Http2Headers based on AsciiString, which is a wrapper around a
byte[].
Various changes throughout the HTTP/2 codec to use the new interface.
Result:
HTTP/2 codec no longer requires string headers.
Motivation:
The HTTP/2 codec does not provide a way to decompress data. This functionality is supported by the HTTP codec and is expected to be a commonly used feature.
Modifications:
-The Http2FrameReader will be modified to allow hooks for decompression
-New classes which detect the decompression from HTTP/2 header frames and uses that decompression when HTTP/2 data frames come in
-New unit tests
Result:
The HTTP/2 codec will provide a means to support data decompression
Motivation:
Currently the Executor created by (Nio|Epoll)EventLoopGroup is not correctly shutdown.
This might lead to resource shortages, due to resources not being freed asap.
Modifications:
If (Nio|Epoll)EventLoopGroup create their internal Executor via a constructor
provided `ExecutorServiceFactory` object or via
MultithreadEventLoopGroup.newDefaultExecutorService(...) the ExecutorService.shutdown()
method will be called after (Nio|Epoll)EventLoopGroup is shutdown.
ExecutorService.shutdown() will not be called if the Executor object was passed
to the (Nio|Epoll)EventLoopGroup (that is, it was instantiated outside of Netty).
Result:
Correctly release resources on (Nio|Epoll)EventLoopGroup shutdown.
Motivation:
The HTTP/2 specification places restrictions on the cipher suites that can be used. There is no central place to pull the ciphers that are allowed by the specification, supported by different java versions, and recommended by the community.
Modifications:
-HTTP/2 will have a security utility class to define supported ciphers
-netty-handler will be modified to support filtering the supplied list of ciphers to the supported ciphers for the current SSLEngine
Result:
-Netty provides unified support for HTTP/2 cipher lists and ciphers can be pruned by currently supported ciphers
Motivation:
Netty only supports a java NPN implementation provided by npn-api and npn-boot.
There is no java implementation for ALPN.
ALPN is needed to be compliant with the HTTP/2 spec.
Modifications:
-SslContext and JdkSslContext to support ALPN
-JettyNpn* class restructure for NPN and ALPN common aspects
-Pull in alpn-api and alpn-boot optional dependencies for ALPN java implementation
Result:
-Netty provides access to a java implementation of APLN
Motivation:
The priority information reported by the HTTP/2 to HTTP tranlsation layer is not correct in all situations.
The HTTP translation layer is not using the Http2Connection.Listener interface to track tree restructures.
This incorrect information is being sent up to clients and is misleading.
Modifications:
-Restructure InboundHttp2ToHttpAdapter to allow a default data/header mode
-Extend this interface to provide an optional priority translation layer
Result:
-Priority information being correctly reported in HTTP/2 to HTTP translation layer
-Cleaner code with seperation of concerns (optional priority conversion).
Motivation:
HTTP/2 draft 14 came out a couple of weeks ago and we need to keep up
with the spec.
Modifications:
-Revert back to dispatching FullHttpMessage objects instead of individual HttpObjects
-Corrections to HttpObject comparitors to support test cases
-New test cases to support sending headers immediatley
-Bug fixes cleaned up to ensure the message flow is terminated properly
Result:
Netty HTTP/2 to HTTP/1.x translation layer will support the HTTP/2 draft message flow.
Motivation:
This is just some general cleanup to get rid of the FrameWriter inner
interface withing Http2InboundFlowController. It's not necessary since
the flow controller can just use the Http2FrameWriter to send
WINDOW_UPDATE frames.
Modifications:
Updated DefaultHttp2InboundFlowController to use Http2FrameWriter.
Result:
The inbound flow control code is somewhat less smelly :).
Motivation:
This is addressing a TODO in the outbound flow controller. We currently
have a separate writer interface passed into the outbound flow
controller. This is confusing and limiting as to how the flow controller
can perform its writes (e.g. no control over flushing). Instead it would
be better to just let the flow controller use the Http2FrameWriter
directly.
Modifications:
- Added a new Http2DataWriter interface, which is extended by
Http2FrameWriter and Http2OutboundFlowController.
- Removed automatic flushing from Http2DataWriter in order to facilitate
optimizing the case where there are multiple writes.
- Updated DefaultHttp2OutboundFlowController to properly optimize
flushing of the ChannelHandlerContext when multiple writes occur.
Result:
Code is greatly simplified WRT outbound flow control and flushes are
optimized for flow-controlled DATA frames.
Motivation:
HTTP/2 draft 14 came out a couple of weeks ago and we need to keep up
with the spec.
Modifications:
- Removed use of segment throughout.
- Added new setting for MAX_FRAME_SIZE. Used by the frame reader/writer
rather than a constant.
- Added new setting for MAX_HEADER_LIST_SIZE. This is currently unused.
- Expanded the header size to 9 bytes. The frame length field is now 3
bytes and added logic for checking that it falls within the valid range.
Result:
Netty will support HTTP/2 draft 14 framing. There will still be some
work to do to be compliant with the HTTP adaptation layer.
Motivation:
The example mis handle two elements:
1) Last message is a LastHttpContent and is not taken into account by
the server handler
2) The client makes a sync on last write (chunked) but there is no flush
before, therefore the sync is waiting forever.
Modifications:
1) Take into account the message LastHttpContent in simple Get.
2) Removes sync but add flush for each post and multipost parts
Results:
Example is no more blocked after get test.
Should be done also in 4.0 and Master (similar changes)
- SocksV[45] -> Socks[45]
- Make encodeAsByteBuf package private with some hassle
- Split SocksMessageEncoder into Socks4MessageEncoder and
Socks5MessageEncoder, and remove the original
- Remove lazy singleton instantiation; we don't need it.
- Remove the deprecated methods
- Fix Javadoc errors
Motivation:
SOCKS 4 and 5 are very different protocols although they share the same
name. It is not possible to incorporate the two protocol versions into
a single package.
Modifications:
- Add a new package called 'socksx' to supercede 'socks' package.
- Add SOCKS 4/4a support to the 'socksx' package
Result:
codec-socks now supports all SOCKS versions
Motivation:
The HTTP/2 codec currently provides direct callbacks to access stream events/data. The HTTP/2 codec provides the protocol support for HTTP/2 but it does not pass messages up the context pipeline. It would be nice to have a decoder which could collect the data framed by HTTP/2 and translate this into traditional HTTP type objects. This would allow the traditional Netty context pipeline to be used to separate processing concerns (i.e. HttpContentDecompressor). It would also be good to have a layer which can translate FullHttp[Request|Response] objects into HTTP/2 frame outbound events.
Modifications:
Introduce a new InboundHttp2ToHttpAdapter and supporting classes which will translate HTTP/2 stream events/data into HttpObject objects. Introduce a new DelegatingHttp2HttpConnectionHandler which will translate FullHttp[Request|Response] objects to HTTP/2 frame events.
Result:
Introduced HTTP/2 frame events to HttpObject layer.
Introduced FullHttp[Request|Response] to HTTP/2 frame events.
Introduced new unit tests to support new code.
Updated HTTP/2 client example to use new code.
Miscelaneous updates and bug fixes made to support new code.
Related issue: #2250
Motivation:
Prior to this commit, Netty's non blocking EventLoops
were each assigned a fixed thread by which all of the
EventLoop's I/O and handler logic would be performed.
While this is a fine approach for most users of Netty,
some advanced users require more flexibility in
scheduling the EventLoops.
Modifications:
Remove all direct usages of threads in MultithreadEventExecutorGroup,
SingleThreadEventExecutor et al., and introduce an Executor
abstraction instead.
The way to think about this change is, that each
iteration of an eventloop is now a task that gets scheduled
in a ForkJoinPool.
While the ForkJoinPool is the default, one also has the
ability to plug in his/her own Executor (aka thread pool)
into a EventLoop(Group).
Result:
Netty hands off thread management to a ForkJoinPool by default.
Users can also provide their own thread pool implementation and
get some control over scheduling Netty's EventLoops
