At a high level, this is what I've done and why:
- I'm moving the protobuf generation for the `protocol`, `discovery` and
`db` packages to the modern alternatives, and using `buf` to generate
because it's nice and simple.
- After trying various approaches on how to integrate the new types with
the existing code, I opted for splitting off our own data model types
from the on-the-wire generated types. This means we can have a
`FileInfo` type with nicer ergonomics and lots of methods, while the
protobuf generated type stays clean and close to the wire protocol. It
does mean copying between the two when required, which certainly adds a
small amount of inefficiency. If we want to walk this back in the future
and use the raw generated type throughout, that's possible, this however
makes the refactor smaller (!) as it doesn't change everything about the
type for everyone at the same time.
- I have simply removed in cold blood a significant number of old
database migrations. These depended on previous generations of generated
messages of various kinds and were annoying to support in the new
fashion. The oldest supported database version now is the one from
Syncthing 1.9.0 from Sep 7, 2020.
- I changed config structs to be regular manually defined structs.
For the sake of discussion, some things I tried that turned out not to
work...
### Embedding / wrapping
Embedding the protobuf generated structs in our existing types as a data
container and keeping our methods and stuff:
```
package protocol
type FileInfo struct {
*generated.FileInfo
}
```
This generates a lot of problems because the internal shape of the
generated struct is quite different (different names, different types,
more pointers), because initializing it doesn't work like you'd expect
(i.e., you end up with an embedded nil pointer and a panic), and because
the types of child types don't get wrapped. That is, even if we also
have a similar wrapper around a `Vector`, that's not the type you get
when accessing `someFileInfo.Version`, you get the `*generated.Vector`
that doesn't have methods, etc.
### Aliasing
```
package protocol
type FileInfo = generated.FileInfo
```
Doesn't help because you can't attach methods to it, plus all the above.
### Generating the types into the target package like we do now and
attaching methods
This fails because of the different shape of the generated type (as in
the embedding case above) plus the generated struct already has a bunch
of methods that we can't necessarily override properly (like `String()`
and a bunch of getters).
### Methods to functions
I considered just moving all the methods we attach to functions in a
specific package, so that for example
```
package protocol
func (f FileInfo) Equal(other FileInfo) bool
```
would become
```
package fileinfos
func Equal(a, b *generated.FileInfo) bool
```
and this would mostly work, but becomes quite verbose and cumbersome,
and somewhat limits discoverability (you can't see what methods are
available on the type in auto completions, etc). In the end I did this
in some cases, like in the database layer where a lot of things like
`func (fv *FileVersion) IsEmpty() bool` becomes `func fvIsEmpty(fv
*generated.FileVersion)` because they were anyway just internal methods.
Fixes#8247
Setting "Sync Protocol Listen Addresses" and "Global Discovery
Server" in the Settings dialog does not work. This bug seems to
have been introduced in 26d52be.
This sends the Cache-Control header to allow caching of static resources,
and checks the If-Modified-Since header to allow browser to use the
cached resource on refresh. Also fixes some paths that caused redirects
(core//foo -> core/foo)
Without this, as soon as we'd touched 1000 files in the last minute
(which can happen), we got stuck doing cache cleaning all the time,
burning a lot of CPU time.
This captures the common pattern of writing to a temp file and moving it
to it's real name only if everything went well. It reduces the amount of
code in some places where we do this, but maybe not as much as I
expected because the upgrade thing is still a special snowflake...
commit d60fbce311414f3ade16c7b1f6525b1d02f01699
Author: Jacek Szafarkiewicz <szafar@linux.pl>
Date: Mon Jun 1 11:16:36 2015 +0200
Correct order of deb files
commit 3b2ecfcc45343701ccb98483a62f70c102a70785
Merge: f4daebb c23a601
Author: Jacek Szafarkiewicz <szafar@linux.pl>
Date: Mon Jun 1 11:15:06 2015 +0200
Merge github.com:syncthing/syncthing
Conflicts:
build.go
commit f4daebb8510f0b40b15e404817a7799e0c3b592c
Author: Jacek Szafarkiewicz <szafar@linux.pl>
Date: Tue May 26 12:58:25 2015 +0200
Add me to AUTHORS
commit 9e77f4bea01cc826132a5fbc6ca412cce5327e97
Author: Jacek Szafarkiewicz <szafar@linux.pl>
Date: Tue May 26 12:57:40 2015 +0200
Add systemd files to deb packate
This captures the common pattern of writing to a temp file and moving it
to it's real name only if everything went well. It reduces the amount of
code in some places where we do this, but maybe not as much as I
expected because the upgrade thing is still a special snowflake...
