calls, apps, and routes listing were previously returning the entire data set,
which just won't scale. this adds pagination with cursoring forward to each of
these endpoints (see the [docs](docs/definitions.md)).
the patch is really mostly tests, shouldn't be that bad to pick through.
some blarble about implementation is in order:
calls are sorted by ids but allow searching within certain `created_at` ranges
(finally). this is because sorting by `created_at` isn't feasible when
combined with paging, as `created_at` is not guaranteed to be unique -- id's
are (eliding theoreticals). i.e. on a page boundary, if there are 200 calls
with the same `created_at`, providing a `cursor` of that `created_at` will
skip over the remaining N calls with that `created_at`. also using id will be
better on the index anyway (well, less of them). yay having sortable ids! I
can't discern any issues doing this, as even if 200 calls have the same
created_at, they will have different ids, and the sort should allow paginating
them just fine. ids are also url safe, so the id works as the cursor value
just fine.
apps and routes are sorted by alphabetical order. as they aren't guaranteed to
be url safe, we are base64'ing them in the front end to a url safe format and
then returning them, and then base64 decoding them when we get them. this does
mean that they can be relatively large if the path/app is long, but if we
don't want to add ids then they were going to be pretty big anyway. a bonus
that this kind of obscures them. if somebody has better idea on formatting, by
all means.
notably, we are not using the sql paging facilities, and we are baking our own
based on cursors, which ends up being much more efficient for querying longer
lists of resources. this also should be easy to implement in other non-sql dbs
and the cursoring formats we can change on the fly since we are just exposing
them as opaque strings. the front end deals with the base64 / formatting, etc
and the back end is taking raw values (strfmt.DateTime or the id for calls).
the cursor that is being passed to/by the user is simply the last resource on the
previous page, so in theory we don't even need to return it, but it does make
it a little easier to use, also, cursor being blank on the last page depends
on page full-ness, so sometimes users will get a cursor when there are no
results on next page (1/N chance, and it's not really end of world -- actually
searching for the next thing would make things more complex). there are ample
tests for this behavior.
I've turned off all query parameters allowing `LIKE` queries on certain listing
endpoints, as we should not expose sql behavior through our API in the event
that we end up not using a sql db down the road. I think we should only allow
prefix matching, which sql can support as well as other types of databases
relatively cheaply, but this is not hooked up here as it didn't 'just work'
when I was fiddling with it (can add later, they're unnecessary and weren't
wired in before in front end).
* remove route listing across apps (unused)
* fix panic when doing `/app//`. this is prob possible for other types of
endpoints, out of scope here. added a guard in front of all endpoints for this
* adds `from_time` and `to_time` query parameters to calls, so you can e.g.
list the last hour of tasks. these are not required and default to
oldest/newest.
* hooked back up the datastore tests to the sql db, only run with sqlite atm,
but these are useful, added a lot to them too.
* added a bunch of tests to the front end, so pretty sure this all works now.
* added to swagger, we'll need to re-gen. also wrote some words about
pagination workings, I'm not sure how best to link to these, feedback welcome.
* not sure how we want to manage indexes, but we may need to add some (looking
at created_at, mostly)
* `?route` changed to `?path` in routes listing, to keep consistency with
everything else
* don't 404 when searching for calls where the route doesn't exist, just
return an empty list (it's a query param ffs)
closes#141
this adds `FN_` in front of env vars that we are injecting into calls, for
namespacing reasons. this will break code relying on the current variables but
if we want to do this, the chance is now really. alternatively, we could
maintain both the old and new for a short period of time to ease the
adjustment (speak now...). updated the docs, as well.
this also adds tests for the notoriously finicky configuration of the env vars
and headers when setting up a call. this won't test the container / request
for the call is actually receiving them, but it's a decent start and will yell
loudly enough upon formatting breakage.
added back FXLB_WAIT to a couple places so the lb can ride again
one thing for feedback:
headers are a bit confusing at the moment (not from this change, but that
behavior is kept here for now), we've a chance to fix them. currently, headers
in the request __are not__ prefixed with `FN_HEADER_`, i.e. 'hot'+sync containers
will receive `Content-Length` in the http request headers, yet a 'cold'
container from the same request would receive `FN_HEADER_Content-Length` in
its environment. This is additionally confusing because if this function were
hot+async, it would receive `FN_HEADER_Content-Length` in the headers, where
just changing it to sync goes back to `Content-Length`. If that was confusing,
then point made ;)
I propose to remove the `FN_HEADER_` prefix for request headers in the
environment, so that the request headers and env will match, as request
headers already are of this format (not prefixed). please lmk thoughts here
Would be fine with going back to the 'plain' vars too, then this patch will
mostly just be adding tests and changing `FN_FORMAT` to `FORMAT`. obviously,
from the examples, it's a bit ingrained now. anyway, entirely up to y'all.
