1745758 - [DNR] Prototype of rule evaluation engine

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(WebExtensions :: Request Handling, enhancement, P1)

Description

[Rob Wu [:robwu]]

The declarativeNetRequest API specifies a set of rules (conditions + actions) to apply to network requests, but does not prescribe the exact algorithm. In order to enable experimentation of different algorithms, I'll start the patch stack with a non-optimized implementation of a rule evaluation engine and use that to implement the different parts of the DNR API at a functional level. With a functioning API, it will be easier to refactor the algorithm without major changes to unit tests or performance tests.

The evaluation engine takes a registered set of rules, evaluates the conditions and applies the relevant actions.

The matching algorithm of the prototype is not optimized and not final, and merely exists to prepare the other parts of the DNR API.

Comment 1

[Rob Wu [:robwu]]

Attachment: Bug 1745758 - Add DNR rule evaluation engine

This patch provides a rule evaluation engine for the DNR extension API,
using a naive linear API to evaluate rules for a given request.

The main purpose of this is to offer DNR functionality for relatively
simple use cases, as the more complex ones are likely going to use the
blocking webRequest API instead.

Comment 2

[Rob Wu [:robwu]]

Attachment: Bug 1745758 - Add DNR domain condition validation + matching

And added "TODO bug 1797376" to the hostname format in Schemas.jsm,
because the implementation does not match the name. Because of that,
this patch introduces the new "canonicalDomain" schema format.

Comment 3

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/588516a44335
Add DNR rule evaluation engine r=rpl
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/e0ceef9dd1ae
Add DNR domain condition validation + matching r=rpl

Comment 4

[Sandor Molnar]

Backed out for causing xpc failures in toolkit/components/extensions/test/xpcshell/test_ext_dnr_testMatchOutcome.js

Backout link: https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/dc344f30a13a1cdfb51232a67fff9284310609eb

Push with failures

Failure log

TEST-UNEXPECTED-TIMEOUT | xpcshell-remote.ini:toolkit/components/extensions/test/xpcshell/test_ext_dnr_testMatchOutcome.js | Test timed out

Comment 5

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/fd3dcd9ca329
Add DNR rule evaluation engine r=rpl
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/5e048345ff64
Add DNR domain condition validation + matching r=rpl

Comment 6

[Iulian Moraru]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/fd3dcd9ca329
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/5e048345ff64