We don't want MutCfg to be automatially coneable, or we'll wind up with
surprises like the one that this patch fixes in TorClient.
(The "surprise" is that reconfigure() would only apply its
client-specific options to one client instance.)
If we allow overlapping reconfiguration requests, we introduce all
kinds of "fun" bugs. For example, we could wind up with a configuration
made up of parts of one reconfiguration attempt, and parts of another.
And now the complexity begins: when the user changes the path_rules,
they not only want new circuits to obey those rules: they want
_all new requests_ to be put onto circuits that obey those rules.
That means that when the path rules become more restrictive, we need
to retire all the circuits, and make sure that currently pending
circuits aren't used for any requests.
If it's any comfort, doing this was even more complicated in C tor. ;)
This patch doesn't actually make anything reconfigurable, but it
does create an API that will tell you "you can't change the value of
that!" If the API looks reasonable, I can start making it possible
to change the values of individual items.
We want to only use TODO in the codebase for non-blockers, and open
tickets for anything that is a bigger blocker than a TODO. These
XXXXs seem like definite non-blockers to me.
Part of arti#231.
The sane_defaults() call is now the same as you get from a default
builder: by convention, we just call that method Default::default().
The with_directories() constructor makes more sense as a constructor
for the TorClientConfigBuilder than for TorClientConfig.
The new CircMgr::build_circuits_preemptively function actually causes
preemptive circuits to be built; it gets called from arti-client, like
the other daemon tasks the CircMgr has.
I'm still not 100% sure this is the right move: should we encourage
app developers to always pick their own directories? Or should we
make it easy for them to use, well, `sane_defaults`?
This patch takes the second approach.
This patch makes sure that for every* config type we have, the defaults
you get from a Builder match those you get from Serde, and that both
match the value that you get from arti_defaults.toml. Later down the
line I'll be adding some tests to keep these in sync.
* StorageConfig still has no defaults of its own, since we aren't so
sure we want other applications to use Arti's directories by default.
Since these shell-variables are hardwired to use org.torproject.Arti as
the program name, it isn't appropriate to call them "app-specific".
If we someday reinstate APP_FOO, it should be based on a user-provided
application name.
In order to handle explicitly specified path buffers directly, we now
let CfgPath be either a string (that gets expanded) or a PathBuf
(that doesn't).
This simplifies TorClientConfig::with_directories()
Now every section that the two configuration objects share has the
same type and name. This should help us in documenting our configuration
in a way that doesn't confuse people.
There is still lots of API work to go.
To do this at all neatly, I had to split out `tor-config` from
`arti-config` again, and putting the lower level stuff (paths,
builder errors) into tor-config. I also changed our use of
derive_builder to always use a common error type, to avoid
error type proliferation.
Most of the structs in `arti-client` have example code now, to give a
clearer idea of how they're used.
Annoyingly, a lot of the types exposed in `arti-client` are actually
re-exports, which makes documentation a bit harder: example code that
references other parts of `arti-client` can't actually be run as a
doctest, since the crate it's in is a dependency of `arti-client`.
We might be able to fix this in future by doing the documentation in
`arti-client` itself, but rustdoc seems to have some weird behaviours
there that need to be investigated first (for example, it seems to merge
the re-export and original documentation, and also put the re-export
documentation on the `impl` block for some reason).
For now, though, this commit just writes the docs from the point of view
of an `arti-client` consumer, removing notes specific to the crate in
which they're defined. It's not ideal, but at least the end user
experience is decent.
This overhauls the top-level `arti-client` documentation significantly:
- the "Using arti-client" section walks the user through all of the
necessary steps to initiate a Torified TCP connection, and then
provides a code example
- this example is also available as `examples/readme.rs`; it's not run
as a doctest, since it involves connecting to Tor
- a "More advanced usage" subheading provides information about stream
isolation (and can potentially be used for other interesting
features once we get them).
- a new "Multiple runtime support" section was added to explain the
purpose and usage of the `tor-rtcompat` crate
- the section on design and privacy considerations was removed; this is
probably okay to keep in a README, but users of the crate aren't going
to be interested in this (at least I don't think)
(also, the doc comment for `arti_client::Error` was fixed to make actual
sense)
Now that we have two kinds of isolation tokens (those set on a
stream, and those set by the stream's associated TorClient), we
need a more sophisticated kind of isolation.
This fixes the bug introduced with the previous commit, where
per-stream tokens would override per-TorClient tokens.