Error reporting currently takes place for each error. This can result
in many error messages if a server has connectivity issues (i.e. when
it re-connects to the internet every 24 hours).
This commit adds a new option to the configuration file to define the
number of error reports to suppress before returning an error message
to the user.
Error reports are cached and therefore automatically purged after 24
hours. A successful bridge request does **not** clear the error count
as sporadic issues can be the result of actual problems on the server.
The implementation currently makes no assumption on the type of error,
which means it also suppresses bridge errors in debug mode. The default
value is, however, set to 1 which means all errors are reported.
References #994
Bridge errors are currently included as part of the feed to
notify users about erroneous bridges (before that, bridges
silently failed).
This solution, however, can produce a high load of error
messages if servers are down (see #994 for more details).
Admins may also not want to include error messages in feeds
in order to keep those kind of problems away from users or
simply to silently fail by choice.
This commit adds a new configuration section "error" with
one option "output" which can be set to following values:
"feed": To include error messages in the feed (default)
"http": To return a HTTP header for each error
"none": To disable error reporting
Note that errors are always logged to 'error.log' independent
of the settings above.
Closes#1066
* [ParameterValidator] Ensure context has all fields
Previously if a bridge had a set of parameters like:
const PARAMETERS = array(
'ContextA' => array(
'Param1' => array(
'name' => 'Param1',
'required' => true
)
),
'ContextB' => array(
'Param1' => array(
'name' => 'Param1',
'required' => true
),
'Param2' => array(
'name' => 'Param2',
'required' => true
)
)
)
and a query specifying both Param1 and Param2 was provided a 'Mixed
context parameters' error would be returned. This change ensures
ContextA in the above example would not be considered a relevant context.
RSS-Bridge currently has to guess the queried context from the data
provided by the user. This, however, can cause issues for bridges
that have multiple contexts with conflicting parameters (i.e. none).
This commit adds context hinting to queries via '&context=<context>'
which can be omitted in which case the context is determined as before.
The format factory can be based on the abstract factory class if it
wasn't static. This allows for higher abstraction and makes future
extensions possible. Also, not all parts of RSS-Bridge need to work
on the same instance of the factory.
References #1001
The cache factory can be based on the abstract factory class if it
wasn't static. This allows for higher abstraction and makes future
extensions possible. Also, not all parts of RSS-Bridge need to work
on the same instance of the factory.
References #1001
The bridge factory can be based on the abstract factory class if it
wasn't static. This allows for higher abstraction and makes future
extensions possible. Also, not all parts of RSS-Bridge need to work
on the same instance of the bridge factory.
References #1001
RSS-Bridge currently sanitizes the format name only for the display
action, which can cause problems if other actions depend on formats
as well.
It is therefore better to do sanitization in the factory class for
formats. Additionally, formats should not require a perfect match,
so 'Atom' and 'aToM' make no difference. This will also allow users
to define formats in their own style (i.e. only lowercase via CLI).
References #1001
Response headers may contain fields with no values.
Example:
"Referrer-Policy: "
In this case the current implementation of explode() results in an
error because there is no content after ": ". Changing the delimiter
to ":" and trimming the value manually fixes that issue.
Users currently only get one option: to open a new issue on GitHub.
This can, however, result in duplicate issues, which is not desired.
This commit adds a second button to the error message, which links
to the GitHub issues tracker with the search query set to find
errors for the current bridge. That way, users can collaborate
on the same issue.
Incorrect configuration values are currently handled individually
for each condition, resulting in a lot of repetitive operations.
This commit adds two new private functions to report errors to the
user and end execution of the script.
The configuration files are currently hard-coded in the configuration
classes and error messages. However, the implementation should not
rely on specific details like the file name. Instead, the files should
be part of the global definition.
This commit introduces two global constants for the configuration files
- FILE_CONFIG => 'config.ini.php'
- FILE_CONFIG_DEFAULT => 'config.default.ini.php'
RSS-Bridge currently statically sets the timezone to UTC which can
result in incorrect timestamps if the server is hosted in another
region.
This commit adds a new configuration parameter to allow admins to
specify their own timezone for their servers. Invalid values will
result in an error message.
Example:
[system]
timezone = "UTC"
For compatibility reasons the default value is set to UTC.
This parameter accepts any of the supported timezones listed at
https://www.php.net/manual/en/timezones.phpCloses#956
References #1001
If the bridge name matches exactly, it is not necessary to perform
a strtolower compare of bridges. In some situations this can lead
to much faster response times (depending on the amount of bridges
in whitelist.txt).
Default bridges are currently statically defined in index.php, which
is not the right place if we want to keep responsibilities separated.
This commit introduces a new file whitelist.default.txt that holds
the default bridges and which is loaded automatically, if whitelist.txt
doesn't exist.
Due to this it is also no longer necessary to have write permission
for the root directory.
References #1001
This reverts commit 052844f5e1.
There is a bug in ->remove() that causes the parser to incorrectly
identify elements in the DOM tree that shouldn't exist anymore.
References #1151
simplehtmldom 1.9 introduced new functions to recursively remove
nodes from the DOM. This allows removing elements without the need
to re-load the document by using $html->load($html->save()), which
is very inefficient.
Find more information about remove() at
https://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.io/docs/1.9/api/simple_html_dom_node/remove/
find('*') wasn't supported in older versions of simplehtmldom but it
is supported now. Thus, all custom implementations can be replaced
by the correct solution.
This fixes the following issue:
1. bridge sets unique ids for the items (ids get hashed)
2. items go to the cache
3. on next run items get loaded from cache
4. these items have different ids because they were hashed again
5. they show up twice in feed reader
- For consistency, functions should always return null on non-existing data.
- WordPressPluginUpdateBridge appears to have used its own cache instance in the past. Obviously not used anymore.
- Since $key can be anything, the cache implementation must ensure to assign the related data reliably; most commonly by serializing and hashing the key in an appropriate way.
- Even though the default path for storage is perfectly fine, some people may want to use a different location. This is an example how a cache implementation is responsible for its requirements.
This commit adds support for a new parameter which specifies the type
of cache to use for caching. It is specified in config.ini.php:
[cache]
type = "..."
Currently only one type of cache is supported (see /caches). All uses
of 'FileCache' were replaced by this configuration option.
Note: Caching currently depends on files and folders (due to FileCache).
Experience may vary depending on the selected cache type. For now always
check if FileCache is working before testing alternative types.
References #1000
'uid' represents the unique id for a feed item. This item is null by
default and can be set to any string value. The provided string value
is always hashed to sha1 to make it the same length in all cases.
References #977, #1005
