Parts of the IPFIXFieldTypes class were extracted into the new
IPFIXDataTypes class, to increase readability and stability.
The IPFIXDataRecord class and its field parser is now more in tune with
the specifications, handling signed and unsigned, as well as float,
boolean and UTF8 strings etc.
Corresponding tests were extended with softflowd packets (level
"ethernet") and value checks (e.g. MAC address).
Resolves#25
The function send_recv_packets in tests stored all processed
ExportPackets by default in a list. Memory usage tests were therefore
based on this high amount of stored objects, since no instance of any
ExportPacket was deleted until exit.
With the new parameter store_packets the caller can define how many
packets should be stored during receiving, as to test multiple
scenarios.
Three such scenarios are implemented: don't store any packet, store
maximum of 500 at a time and store all packets. This comes much closer
to the real world scenario of the collector, which uses a "for export in
listener.get" loop, dumping any new ExportPacket to file immediatelly
and then deleting the object.
Yet, the case where all packets are stored must still be covered as
well, because the collector might not be the only implementation which
uses listener.get, so finding memory leaks should be covered.
A new test file is added which contains memory and CPU tests. For now,
only the memory usage tests work (threading!). They print out tables of
memory usage based on file path and on function. Additionally, they check
some basic measurements: if all packets were processed and if a
collection of version 9/10 called any functions in 10/9.
Refs #24
Analyzer test was missing imports.
IPFIX templates with 16 bytes fields were processed extra, since struct
does not natively support conversion to int. The new implementation
still handles it extra, but uses struct's "s" unpack format descriptor
now.
The previously introduced tests/lib.py contained the NetFlow v9 packets
and then the IPFIX packets, those were split and put into their
respective test files again. The lib now contains shared objects only.
For IPFIX tests were added. Two new packets were added, one with
templates and one without (again, real exports from softflowd).
Different cases are checked: no template, template and later template.
Fields of flows are also checked, especially IPv6 addresses.
Note: exports made with softflowd were created by softflowd 1.0.0,
compiled from https://github.com/irino/softflowd
The tests are now located in tests/. They are also split into multiple
files, beginning with test_netflow and test_analyzer. The tests for
IPFIX will be added to test_ipfix.
