This patch removes duplicate internal copies of constants in the structs
package which are also defined in the api package. The api.KVOp type
with all its values for the TXN endpoint and the api.HealthXXX constants
are now used throughout the codebase.
This resulted in some circular dependencies in the testutil package
which have been resolved by copying code and constants and moving the
WaitForLeader function into a separate testrpc package.
It turns out the indexer can only use strings as arguments when
creating a query. Cast `types.CheckID` to a `string` before calling
into `memdb`.
Ideally the indexer would be smart enough to do this at compile-time,
but I need to look into how to do this without reflection and the
runtime package. For the time being statically cast `types.CheckID`
to a `string` at the call sites.
These would manifest in the HTTP output as Javascript nulls instead of
empty lists, so we had unintentionally changed the interface while
porting to the new state store. We added code to each HTTP endpoint to
convert nil slices to empty ones so they JSON-ify properly, and we added
tests to catch this in the future.
The design of the session TTLs is based on the Google Chubby approach
(http://research.google.com/archive/chubby-osdi06.pdf). The Session
struct has an additional TTL field now. This attaches an implicit
heartbeat based failure detector. Tracking of heartbeats is done by
the current leader and not persisted via the Raft log. The implication
of this is during a leader failover, we do not retain the last
heartbeat times.
Similar to Chubby, the TTL represents a lower-bound. Consul promises
not to terminate a session before the TTL has expired, but is allowed
to extend the expiration past it. This enables us to reset the TTL on
a leader failover. The TTL is also extended when the client does a
heartbeat. Like Chubby, this means a TTL is extended on creation,
heartbeat or failover.
Additionally, because we must account for time requests are in transit
and the relative rates of clocks on the clients and servers, Consul
will take the conservative approach of internally multiplying the TTL
by 2x. This helps to compensate for network latency and clock skew
without violating the contract.
Reference: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y5-pahLkUaA7Kz4SBU_mehKiyt9yaaUGcBTMZR7lToY/edit?usp=sharing
Added a "delete" behavior for session invalidation, in addition to
the default "release" behavior. On session invalidation, the sessions
Behavior field is checked and if it is set to "delete", all nodes owned
by the session are deleted. If it is "release", then just the locks
are released as default.
Frank Schroeder