Re: [PATCH 4/8] Introduce generic objects for building XDR RPC servers/clients

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On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 12:30:25PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 12/01/2010 10:26 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > Introduces a set of generic objects which are to be used in
> > building RPC servers/clients based on XDR.
> > 
> >  - virNetMessageHeader - standardize the XDR format for any
> >    RPC program. Copied from remote protocol for back compat
> > 
> >  - virNetMessage - Provides a buffer for (de-)serializing
> >    messages, and a copy of the decoded virNetMessageHeader.
> >    Provides APIs for encoding/decoding message headers and
> >    payloads, thus isolating all the XDR api calls in one
> >    file. Callers no longer need to use XDR themselves.
> > 
> >  - virNetSocket - a wrapper around a socket file descriptor,
> >    to simplify creation of new sockets, both for clients and
> >    services. Encapsulates all the hairy getaddrinfo code
> >    and sockaddr manipulation.  Will eventually include
> >    transparent support for TLS and SASL encoding of data
> > 
> >  - virNetTLSContext - encapsulates the credentials required
> >    to setup TLS sessions. eg the set of x509 certificates
> >    and keys, optional DH parameters and x509 DName whitelist
> >    Provides APIs for easily validating certificates from a
> >    TLS session
> > 
> >  - virNetTLSSession - encapsulates the TLS session handling,
> >    so that callers no longer have a direct dependancy on
> >    gnutls. This will facilitate adding alternate TLS impls.
> >    Makes the read/write TLS functions work with same
> >    semantics as the native socket read/write functions. ie
> >    they set errno, instead of a gnutls specific error code.
> 
> Is it worth introducing these in separate patches, instead of all in one
> go?  At any rate, this is big enough that I haven't reviewed it in
> detail yet, but the concept of factoring out the common code seems nice.

Yep, I could probably split this into 3 patches, without too much
pain

Daniel

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