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
This is an extract from PR #9175, which can be reviewed in isolation to
reduce the volume of changes to review all at once in #9175. There are
about to be several services and API handlers that read and set cookies
and session state, so this abstraction will prove helpful.
In particular a motivating cause for this is that with the current
architecture in PR #9175, in `api.go` the [`webauthnService` needs to
access the
session](https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/pull/9175/files#diff-e2e14f22d818b8e635572ef0ee7718dee875c365e07225d760a6faae8be7772dR309-R310)
for authentication purposes but needs to be instantiated before the
`configMuxBuilder` for config purposes, because the WebAuthn additions
to config management need to perform WebAuthn registration ceremonies,
but currently the session management is embedded in the
`basicAuthAndSessionMiddleware` which is [instantiated much
later](https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/pull/9175/files#diff-e2e14f22d818b8e635572ef0ee7718dee875c365e07225d760a6faae8be7772dL371-R380)
and only if authentication is enabled in `guiCfg`. This refactorization
extracts the session management out from `basicAuthAndSessionMiddleware`
so that `basicAuthAndSessionMiddleware` and `webauthnService` can both
use the same shared session management service to perform session
management logic.
### Testing
This is a refactorization intended to not change any externally
observable behaviour, so existing tests (e.g., `api_auth_test.go`)
should cover this where appropriate. I have manually verified that:
- Appending `+ "foo"` to the cookie name in `createSession` causes
`TestHtmlFormLogin/invalid_URL_returns_403_before_auth_and_404_after_auth`
and `TestHtmlFormLogin/UTF-8_auth_works` to fail
- Inverting the return value of `hasValidSession` cases a whole bunch of
tests in `TestHTTPLogin` and `TestHtmlFormLogin` to fail
- (Fixed) Changing the cookie to `MaxAge: 1000` in `destroySession` does
NOT cause any tests to fail!
- Added tests `TestHtmlFormLogin/Logout_removes_the_session_cookie`,
`TestHTTPLogin/*/Logout_removes_the_session_cookie`,
`TestHtmlFormLogin/Session_cookie_is_invalid_after_logout` and
`TestHTTPLogin/200_path#01/Session_cookie_is_invalid_after_logout` to
cover this.
- Manually verified that these tests pass both before and after the
changes in this PR, and that changing the cookie to `MaxAge: 1000` or
not calling `m.tokens.Delete(cookie.Value)` in `destroySession` makes
the respective pair of tests fail.
This adds a "token manager" which handles storing and checking expired
tokens, used for both sessions and CSRF tokens. It removes the old,
corresponding functionality for CSRFs which saved things in a file. The
result is less crap in the state directory, and active login sessions
now survive a Syncthing restart (this really annoyed me).
It also adds a boolean on login to create a longer-lived session cookie,
which is now possible and useful. Thus we can remain logged in over
browser restarts, which was also annoying... :)
<img width="1001" alt="Screenshot 2023-12-12 at 09 56 34"
src="https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/assets/125426/55cb20c8-78fc-453e-825d-655b94c8623b">
Best viewed with whitespace-insensitive diff, as a bunch of the auth
functions became methods instead of closures which changed indentation.
