A minimally-defined static server only specifies server_id,
anonymous-storage-FURL, and permutation-seed-base32. But the WUI Welcome
page wouldn't render (it raised an exception) without also defining
nickname and version. This allows those values to be missing.
This follows the latest comments in ticket:2788, moving the static
server definitions from "connections.yaml" to "servers.yaml". It removes
the "connections" and "introducers" blocks from that file, leaving it
responsible for just static servers (I think connections and introducers
can be configured from tahoe.cfg).
This feeds all the static server specs to the StorageFarmBroker in a
single call, rather than delivering them as simulated introducer
announcements. It cleans up the way handlers are specified too (the
handler dictionary is ignored, but that will change soon).
They're the same thing, but knowing that is the responsibility of the
caller, not NativeStorageServer. Try to normalize on "server_id" as the
spelling. Remove support for missing key_s, now that we require V2
introductions.
This is a change I've wanted to make for many years, because when we get
to HTTP-based servers, we won't have tubids for them. What held me back
was that there's code all over the place that uses the serverid for
various purposes, so I wasn't sure it was safe. I did a big push a few
years ago to use IServer instances instead of serverids in most
places (in #1363), and to split out the values that actually depend upon
tubid into separate accessors (like get_lease_seed and
get_foolscap_write_enabler_seed), which I think took care of all the
important uses.
There are a number of places that use get_serverid() as dictionary key
to track shares (Checker results, mutable servermap). I believe these
are happy to use pubkeys instead of tubids: the only thing they do with
get_serverid() is to compare it to other values obtained from
get_serverid(). A few places in the WUI used serverid to compute display
values: these were fixed.
The main trouble was the Helper: it returns a HelperUploadResults (a
Copyable) with a share->server mapping that's keyed by whatever the
Helper's get_serverid() returns. If the uploader and the helper are on
different sides of this change, the Helper could return values that the
uploader won't recognize. This is cosmetic: that mapping is only used to
display the upload results on the "Recent and Active Operations" page.
I've added code to StorageFarmBroker.get_stub_server() to fall back to
tubids when looking up a server, so this should still work correctly
when the uploader is new and the Helper is old. If the Helper is new and
the uploader is old, the upload results will show unusual server ids.
refs ticket:1363
This makes IServer instances responsible for their own network
connections, which will help when we add HTTP-based servers in the
future. The StorageFarmBroker should not care about how the IServer uses
the network, it just provides the announcement (and local config).
