[Vortex] [ANN] Vortex Library 1.0 is ready!
Francis Brosnan Blazquez
francis at aspl.es
Thu Dec 7 17:22:21 CET 2006
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## Vortex Library 1.0 Stable Release ##
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Release note
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Advanced Software Production Line is proud to announce the Vortex
Library 1.0 availability: an open source "BEEP Core" protocol
implementation written in C, mapped onto TCP/IP.
Vortex Library has been developed inside the Af-Arch project as its
data transport layer.
Vortex Library is a stable and robust application protocol
development toolkit. Currently it is running under Microsoft Windows
and GNU/Linux platforms.
Check out the following links to get ready with Vortex Library:
- http://vortex.aspl.es
[Vortex Library homepage]
- http://www.sf.net/projects/vortexlibrary
[Sources and Win32 binaries]
- http://fact.aspl.es
[Af-Arch homepage where Vortex Library is being developed]
- http://www.beepcore.org
[BEEP Core community web site]
- http://xml.aspl.es
[Axl Library, XML 1.0 implementation]
The release in short
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This new release fixes and integrates many known bugs from previous
stable release. It also includes the first implementation for the
regression test that will be used to ensure function and to upgrade
the library performance.
Several library improvements has been done, making it faster than
previous one (vortex writer loop has been removed) and vortex reader
handling under many connections has been updated showing an upgrade
from 39segs to 5segs for a test that creates 1000 connections and
then closes them.
Many new useful functions has been added, a new reference counting
support for channels and frames, xml-rpc-gen tool updates.
This is the first stable release for the 1.X series that will
include many interesting features like separating library into a core
BEEP component, the current library that provides application
structure, and the rest of BEEP profiles.
Thanks to..
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Milton Yates (Gentoo ebuilds, axl library wrong dependency, SASL
patch to solve user defined pointer at listener side and its
appreciated suggestions)
Attilio Drei (libssl wrong flags configuration)
Sam Roberts (fixed wrong vortex main header c++ declarations, fixed
documentation vortex_connection_new about reference returned, fixed
wrong user defined pointer passed to the close channel notify, many
const declarations fixes, added vortex_channel_close_full and its
appreciated suggestions)
Changes since 0.9.0
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* [fix] fixed wrong dependency (0.9.0) with Axl Library 0.2.4 (Milton
Yates report).
* [fix] Added to src/Makefile.am a rule to update the libvortex.def file
on
make dist.
* [fix] making server generation to split the main file into a plain
main file with only the main function and the service dispatcher
code at other file. This makes more easy to integrate source code
generated with other source code.
* [fix] adding a new option to allow controlling where will be placed
the source code for the server component generated: --out-server-dir
* [fix] fixed a bug at the source code generated for the deallocation
function created for the array API.
* [fix] adding a new option which allows to disabling source code
generation for the main file (main.c) at the serve side component:
--disable-main-file
* [fix] fixing a bug while choosing if the client or server component
was generated. Autoconf module was always activated for both.
* [fix] adding an explicit reference to -lcrypto if TLS interface is
activated. Making configure.ac to create a vortex.pc according to
the TLS and SASL configuration. Bug solved: 325.
* [fix] Fixed bug 325 (-lcrypto wasn't properly configured, making
platform with an libssl compiled but not associated with libcrypto
to fail while linking). Bug reported by Attilio Drei.
* [new] Adding a new function to the vortex tls API to enable getting
the SSL object for a VortexConnection with a TLS session
activated. This will allow to vortex client application to implement
more features beyond the set already provided by the Vortex API. API
added:
- vortex_tls_get_ssl_object
* [new] Adding a new function to the vortex tls API to enable getting
the peer TLS certificate finger print. This will allow to easily
implement a verification code like ssh tools does. API added:
- vortex_tls_get_peer_ssl_digest
* [fix] adding additional checks to
vortex_channel_next_pending_message.
* [fix] making vortex_channel_is_opened to check for a null reference,
return FALSE if that case.
* [fix] Rewritten vortex_hash_destroy function to lock the hash before
proceding to the destroy operations.
* [fix] fixed a bug inside the xml-rpc-gen activation flag
(configure.ac)
* [fix] Fixing a bug which was causing to not generate the
services_dispatch.[ch]
functions if --disable-main-file option is activated.
* [new] Adding a new function which allows copying an
XmlRpcMethodValue from a previous one. API added:
- vortex_xml_rpc_method_value_copy
- method_value_copy
* [fix] fixing a bug inside vortex_xml_rpc_boot_channel_sync it wasn't
properly check the presence for reporting status variable before
being used. Also fixed channel notification when it is not created
(synchronous API).
* [new] Adding an new function to get current msg-no configured for a
given XmlRpcMethodCall object (the BEEP message that was used to
transport the request). API added:
- vortex_xml_rpc_method_call_get_msgno
* [fix] fixing several wrong reference to the component name where the
lower version is required. Updated source code generation to
translation non allowed characters into '_'. Added two new function
to support this:
- xml_rpc_support_to_lower
- xml_rpc_support_to_upper
* [new] added a new option which allows to fully configure where is
placed the source code for the client stub generated.
* [fix]fixing several compilation errors exposed due to compiling the
tool inside the windows platform (it was missing -Wall) from
Makefile.am (xml-rpc-gen tool).
* [new] Updated makefiles to include all tools and the xml-rpc-gen.exe
inside the installation directory. Making vortex.nsi to include
import libraries for windows (libvortex.def, libvortex.exp,
libvortex.lib).
* [fix] fixing a non initialized writable inside
xml_rpc_c_stub_write_native_type.
* [fix] updating vortex_init documentation to include some references
to how disable console log debug.
* [fix] updated vortex_xml_rpc_invoke_sync documentation to includes
some
examples and a reference to the automatic deallocation of the
XmlRpcMethodCall received.
* [new] added support to the compiler to get notification about the
service name to be used while performing the invocation rather than
supposing it from the XDL/IDL declaration. Updated dtd definition to
support this new feature. Added tests for this new support:
- reg-test08.xdl
- reg-test08.idl
* [fix] making lookup path to use . before INSTALL_DIR (allows to use
the local copy from the development source rather than the one
installed).
* [new] finished support for method_name attribute declaration for IDL
format.
* [new] Added support to IDL format to detect attribute declaration,
initially for service declaration, even if the service has no source
code definition. Used to support alternative method name
declaration. Example:
[method_name="operation/aritmetic/sum"];
int sum (int a, int b);
Now, the api produced will be the same, but the underlying method
invoked is the valued provided at method_name.
* [fix] making vortex_sasl_auth_method_used to return a NULL value
when the library isn't compiled with SASL support.
* [fix] updating vortex_xml_rpc_method_value_from_string to include a
reference to supported types that could be translated into a string.
* [fix] updated vortex_connection_ref function to return a boolean
status signaling that the connection reference counting was
increased or not. Updated source code to check this return value and
to not perform a vortex_connection_unref and to act according to the
failure. Updated function documentation.
* [fix] making __vortex_channel_block_until_replies_are_received
function to get get blocked forever until replies are received. Now,
waiting process is limited with a timeout. Updated the function to
return the wait status value so the caller can react.
* [fix] making __vortex_channel_0_frame_received_close_msg to check
current closing status for the channel that is receiving the
notification before doing any operation. This solves the problem
created by a channel requested to be closed that have also received
a request to close from the remote peer at the same time.
* [fix] using vortex_connection_ref return status code, now second
level and first level frame delivery handlers are not executed it a
failure was found.
* [fix] making vortex_xml_rpc_method_value_nullify to check
XmlRpcMethodValue received before proceeding.
* [new] added a new function that allows to nullify the method value
internal reference for a selected XmlRpcMethodResponse. API added:
- vortex_xml_rpc_method_response_nullify
* [new] Updated channel pool API to allow managing channel that its
creation are more complex than just calling to
vortex_channel_new. The API now support an external handler that
allows to delegate channel creation task to the user space code. API
added:
- vortex_channel_pool_new_full
- vortex_channel_pool_add_full
- VortexChannelPoolCreate (creation handler)
- vortex_channel_pool_get_next_ready_full
* [new] implemented a channel pool mechanism for the XML-RPC API,
allowing to create XML-RPC channels and reuse them across
invocations. API added:
- vortex_xml_rpc_create_channel_pool
- vortex_xml_rpc_channel_pool_get_next
* [fix] Fixed an internal bug inside
__vortex_xml_rpc_unmarshall_common_sync which wasn't allocating a
copy for the method response fault string causing the application
level to access to deallocated memory. Updated synchronous
invocation documentation to note that fault strings, on error cases,
is an allocated string that must be deallocated when no longer
needed.
* [new] Updated xml-rpc API to include a function to get the member
value for a provided struct selected by name. Added also a function
to get the member selected by a position provided and a function to
get the member name at a provided position. API added:
- vortex_xml_rpc_struct_get_member_value
- vortex_xml_rpc_struct_get_member_value_at
- vortex_xml_rpc_struct_get_member_name_at
* [fix] fixed a memory leak at the greetings parsing code caused by a
change at the libaxl API. Now axl_node_get_childs returns an
allocated list of nodes.
* [fix] fixed a memory leak at the vortex sasl module which was
causing to not deallocate the gsasl_session object associated to the
connection.
* [new] Extending XML-RPC API to include a function to stringify a
method value containing basic values (int, string, boolean, double)
and making vortex_xml_rpc_method_response_stringify to use it. API
added:
- vortex_xml_rpc_method_value_stringify
* [fix] making common reply code to check application level replies,
avoiding to reply several times to the same msgno, making
__vortex_channel_common_rpy to not hang but drop an error log. (only
done for RPY and ERR).
* [fix] Making __vortex_channel_block_until_replies_are_received to
not wait for replies to be received "and processed". The last part
of the checking was causing to hang forever if a the user space
tried to close the channel from inside the frame received (including
the last message received). Added documentation near to the update
linking it to the BEEP RFC section.
* [fix] Making marshalling code for XML-RPC profile, for <string> tags
to use <![CDATA[..]]> to enclose content, allowing to use non
allowed xml symbols.
* [fix] added some comments to the vortex_connection_new_empty
function.
* [fix] Added missing declarations BEGIN_C_DECLS/END_C_DECLS to main
vortex module. (Reported and fixed by Sam Roberts).
* [fix] Committing patch that solves SASL user pointer problem at the
server side programming (Milton Yates patch).
* [fix] adding some comments, fixing vortex writer header, making
doxygen to not confuse it with documentation.
* [new] Added a new function to the vortex connection module to get
current channels opened. API added:
- vortex_connection_get_opened_channels
* [fix] Removing old vortex writer implementation, that has showed to
not scale properly on have connection load.
* [fix] Removed all references to the vortex writer module and
implemented inside the vortex sequencer the ability to send BEEP
frames produced.
* [fix] making vortex main header to define by default 1024
connections to be handled inside one single select(2) call.
* [new] Committing a new test file (vortex client) that creates many
connections to a single vortex server. Base test used to improve
vortex performance on high load.
* [fix] Fixed comment inside vortex_connection_new (Sam Roberts) about
reference returned if threaded and non-threaded model is used.
* [new] Updated VortexFrame definition to include an internal reference
to the
channel where the frame was received. Added new API to retrieve the
channel
reference:
- vortex_frame_get_channel_ref
* [fix] committing initial status for the regression test that will
check all features provided by vortex (vortex-regression-client and
vortex-regression-listener).
* [new] Added a new example which servers as an initial step to
implement a main loop based vortex client application
(vortex-client-without-cbs.c) and updated vortex-server-without-cbs.
* [new] Added a new API to handle close channels in a decoupled form
allowing to configure the handler to be called to get notification
and a function to finish the notification. API added:
- VortexOnNotifyCloseChannel (handler)
- vortex_channel_set_close_notify_handler
- vortex_channel_notify_close
* [fix] committing more updates to the vortex-regression-client file.
* [new] Updated regression tests to include tree initial basic tests
which check basic BEEP functions and data transmission (with small
messages and large ones). Added support to check
vortex_channel_set_serialize.
* [fix] Fixed a bug inside vortex sequencer loop which wasn't checking
for the result received from vortex_sequencer_direct_send. Also
making that function to return a boolean value to flag if the
message was sent or not.
* [fix] Making all vortex_channel_send_rpy* to check the connection
that is being used to send the reply message before performing any
action. Also added a connection check for waiting threads for other
replies to be sent inside the same function.
* [new] Added support to enforce serialization while notifying
incoming frames for a particular channel.
- vortex_channel_set_serialize
* [fix] Making vortex reader process to return a status value if it
isn't able to notify SEQ status, making vortex reader process to
stop for the particular connection.
* [fix] Making vortex reader to add new connections to watch using
prepend operations rather than append operations. Making also vortex
reader to check the number for descriptors changed during
processing.
* [fix] removing all implementation inside vortex reader based on
GList to hold connections watched and started to use axlList,
allowing to better reuse memory and to perform efficient element
removal while traversing connection list.
* [new] Added a new regression test to check vortex support for many
connections.
* [fix] Making vortex reader to set fds to be watching taking listener
connections first, improving startup new connections. All
modifications done have improved vortex library overall efficiency
to run vortex-client-connections in 37.138segs using vortex 0.9.0 to
5.207segs using current vortex SVN. GREAT!!
* [fix] fixed "being_closed" flag configured for TLS-fixated
connections.
* [new] Added initial tests to check TLS and SASL profile support.
* [fix] Updating vortex-regression-client and
vortex-regression-listener to use a constant to define listener port
to be used. Updated Makefile.win to include this new tests.
* [fix] Adding missing new lines to the vortex-simple-client test
(patch from Sam Roberts).
* [fix] Fixed a serious bug inside vortex TLS profile caused by not
protecting the SSL session object with a mutex, producing undefined
behaviors under heavy data transfered while the session is
TLS-fixated. Now, the library passes test_05.
* [fix] making vortex connection internals to notify when it is not
ready the layer to send and receive data (even when it was notified
by the select(2) call). This is because having data at the
underlying transport doesn't means directly to have data available
while calling to SSL_write and SSL_read.
* [fix] Making vortex sequencer to queue data as pending if it isn't
able to send it while calling to vortex_sequencer_direct_send.
* [new] Added a new function that allows to create a new listener
using as port configuration an integer value (Sam Roberts
suggestions). API added:
- vortex_listener_new2
* [fix] Updated VortexOnChannelCloseNotify documentation to explain
its function, and how it relates with VortexOnChannelClose.
* [fix] Updated several functions from the vortex_channel and the
vortex_profiles module to include "const" declaration where
suitable. (Sam Roberts suggestions).
* [fix] Fixed a bug inside vortex_channel_get_reply which was causing
to unref the queue used each time it was called.
* [fix] Making SASL server side profile to use gsasl_property_fast
rather than gsasl_property_get to avoid infinite loop while
accessing to not defined properties due to a malicious auth
attempt. Making these checks to ensure "realm" value is defined if
requested DIGEST-MD5.
* [fix] Fixed SASL CRAM-MD5 and DIGEST-MD5 to allow receiving empty
blob mainly because these mechanism are started by content at the
server side.
* [new] Updated regression test to check SASL mechanism: PLAIN,
EXTERNAL, CRAM-MD5 and DIGEST-MD5.
* [fix] Fixing wrong user defined pointer passed to the close channel
notify and the profiles module (report and patch: Sam Roberts).
* [fix] Making vortex_profiles API module to use where suitable
"const" declaration. (report Sam Roberts).
* [new] Added a new API to the vortex listener to allow configuring
realm to be used at the server side for all connections. This is
only used, at this moment, by the SASL DIGEST-MD5 mechanism. API
added:
- vortex_listener_set_default_realm
- vortex_listener_get_default_realm
* [fix] Added "const" declarations to: vortex_channel_get_mime_type
and vortex_channel_get_transfer_encoding.
* [fix] Making SASL server side to check and properly return realm
configuration if available.
* [fix] Now vortex library passes all tests added to the regression
test suite.
* [fix] Several fixing to make the tool to produce source code that
compiles with
the latest version of vortex and axl library (xml-rpc-gen)
* [fix] Fixed bugs caused by mixing services and type declarations
inside a single
file declaration (xml-rpc-gen)
* [new] Added support for a new option: --to-xml, which allows to
translate
the input .idl file into its representation .xml (xml-rpc-gen)
* [fix] Minor modifications to the xml-rpc-gen tool and the library to
use -ansi flag.
* [fix] Fixed a bug which was causing to not properly deallocate SASL
ctx and SASL session once the connection has gone.
* [fix] Fixed a bug which was causing to not deallocate the
VortexConnection that was tls-fixated (once called
vortex_tls_start_negociation and its *_sync version).
* [fix] Fixing minor code problem to implement --version inside the
tool when the value isn't defined.
* [fix] Wrapping FD_SETSIZE and VORTEX_FD_SETSIZE definitions to avoid
redefinitions performed by external libraries.
* [fix] Making vortex sasl module to notify an error if the SASL layer
don't initialize properly.
* [fix] Many const fixes for the vortex channel and the vortex
connection API (reported and fixed by Sam Roberts
sroberts at universe.com).
* [new] Updated vortex frame API and its internals to add support for
reference counting and automatic memory deallocation. API added:
- vortex_frame_ref
- vortex_frame_unref
* [fix] Updated vortex library internals to use new vortex frame
reference counting support.
* [new] Updated vortex channel API to support reference counting and
automatic memory deallocation. API added:
- vortex_channel_ref
- vortex_channel_unref
* [fix] Updated vortex library to use the new vortex channel reference
counting mechanism.
* [new] Applied patch to support vortex_channel_close_full, a version
of vortex_channel_close with user defined pointer support. (Patch
Sam Roberts).
About Us
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Advanced Software Production Line is leading the Af-Arch project: a
complete framework to develop distributed application to manage
enterprise process.
Af-Arch project relies on Vortex Library to exchange data between
its distributed nodes.
Advanced Software Production Line also provides GNU/Linux support
and consulting services to help organization to introduce GNU/Linux
inside its process.
Contact us, using English or Spanish, to get commercial support
and/or BEEP based development services.
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We hope Vortex Library help you. Enjoy Vortex Library!
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Francis Brosnan Blázquez - francis at aspl.es
Advanced Software Production Line - http://www.aspl.es
7th Dic 2006, Madrid (Spain)
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