sprint() recently became more strict, throwing on sprint("%s", 5). Replace
with the more modern format().
Mechanically converted with https://github.com/avikivity/unsprint.
This has the dual benefit of not enforcing copying on implementations of
the abstract interface and also limiting unnecessary copies.
As usual with Seastar, we follow the convention that a reference
parameter to a function is assumed valid for the duration of the
`future` that is returned. `do_with` helps here.
By adding some constants for root resources, we can avoid using
`seastar::do_with` at some call-sites involving `resource` instances.
The motivation behind this change is the idea that constructing a new
instance of an object is the job of the constructor.
One big benefit of this structure (with the addition of helpers for
convenience) is that calls for emplacing instances (like
`std::make_shared`, or `std::vector::emplace_back`) work without any
difficulty. This would not be true for static construction functions.
This change generalizes the implementation of a `resource` to many
different kinds of resources, though there is still only one
kind (`data`). In the future, we also expect resource kinds for roles,
user-defined functions (UDFs), and possibly on particular REST
end-points.
I considered several approaches to generalizing to different kinds of
resources.
One approach is to have a base class that is inherited from by different
resource kinds. The common functionality would be accessed through
virtual member functions and kind-specific functions would exist in
sub-classes. I rejected this approach because dealing with different
kinds of resources uniformly requires storage and life-time management
through something like `std::unique_ptr<auth::resource>`, which means
that we lose value semantics (including comparison) and must deal with
complications around ownership.
Another option was to use `boost::variant` (or, in future,
`std::variant`). This is closer to what we want, since there a static
set of resource kinds that we support. I rejected this approach for two
reasons. The first is that all resource kinds share the same data (a
list of segments and a root identifier), which would be duplicated in
each type that composed the variant. The second is that the complexity
and source-code overhead of `boost::variant` didn't seem warranted.
The solution I ended up with is home-grown variant. All resources are
described in the same `final` class: `auth::resource`. This class has
value semantics, supports equality comparison, and has a strict
ordering. All resources have in common a tag ("kind") and a list of
parts. Most operations on resources don't care about the kind of
resource (like getting its name, parsing a name, querying for the
parent, etc). These are just member functions of the class.
When we care about a kind-specific interpretation of a resource, we can
produce a "view" of the resource. For example, `data_resource_view`
allows for accessing the (optional) keyspace and table names.
I anticipate in the future to add functions for creating role
resources (`auth::resource::role`) and also `role_resource_view`.
The functional behaviour of the system should be unchanged with this
patch.
I've added new unit tests in `auth_resource_test.cc` and removed the old
test from `auth_test.cc`.
Fixes#3027.
