Ongoing re-architecture

[Jorge Pereira]

Alan,

I have been following the commits/changes. It's been great... Good work
guys!

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Jorge Pereira

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com>
wrote:

>   For people watching github... there's been a flurry of changes to the
> code in the last few weeks.  This is all necessary for future expansion of
> the server.
>
>   Arran has updated the way the dictionary API handles attributes.
>  Previously, it assumed that all attributes could be packet into a 32-bit
> integer... via a terrible packing scheme.  The idea at the time was that
> you could address any attribute at compile-time via a magic number.
>
>   That functionality was never used.  Worse, it prevented us from having
> TLVs nested more than 4 layers, and made other work harder.  So it's been
> removed.
>
>   Attributes can now be nested to almost any depth.  After about 20,
> though, it starts getting silly.
>
>   As a result of the previous change, the RADIUS encoder / decoder was
> updated.  The decoder didn't change much, as it was already well
> abstracted.  The encoder was almost completely re-written.  It's now *much*
> simpler and easier to understand.
>
>   What made this possible was the tests in src/tests.  And the Coverity /
> clang scans.  So we're sure that the new code works, and has minimal
> problems.
>
>
>   I've been working on cleaning up the architecture of the server.
> Previously, the initialization code was scattered across multiple files,
> and wasn't very clear.  If you now read radiusd.c, it's pretty clear what
> gets initialized, and in what order.
>
>   There is more to do, of course.  But the goal is a better structure
> which is easier to maintain, and easier to extend.
>
>   Alan DeKok.
>
>
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