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Robin Sommer updated BIT-1106:
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    Resolution: Merged  (was: Fixed)
        Status: Closed  (was: Merge Request)

> Merge topic/bernhard/input-error-fixes
> --------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: BIT-1106
>                 URL: https://bro-tracker.atlassian.net/browse/BIT-1106
>             Project: Bro Issue Tracker
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Bro
>    Affects Versions: git/master
>            Reporter: Bernhard Amann
>
> The branch topic/bernhard/input-error-fixes fixes a number of issues of the 
> input framework that all have to do with errors:
> -First:
> Due to architectural constraints, it is very hard for the input framework to 
> handle optional records. For an optional record, either the whole record has 
> to be missing, or all non-optional elements of the record have to be defined. 
> This information is not available to input readers after the records have 
> been unrolled into the threading types.
> Behavior so far was to treat optional records like they are non-optional, 
> without warning. The patch changes this behavior to emit an error on 
> stream-creation (during type-checking) and refusing to open the file. I think 
> this is a better idea - the behavior so far was undocumented and unintuitive.
> - Second:
> For table and event streams, reader backend creation was done very early, 
> before actually checking if all arguments are valid. Initialization is moved 
> after the checks now - this makes a number of delete statements unnecessary. 
> Also - I suspect threads of failed input reader instances were not deleted 
> until shutdown
> - Third:
> Add a couple more consistency checks, e.g. checking if the destination value 
> of a table has the same type as we need. We did not check everything in all 
> instances, instead we just assigned the things without caring (which works, 
> but is not really desirable).
> This change also exposed a few bugs in other testcases where table 
> definitions were wrong (did not respect $want_record)
> - Fourth:
> Improve error messages and write testcases for all error messages (I think).



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