multi protocol execution
Implementation
when template is unmarshalled, if it uses more than one protocol, then order of protocols is preserved and is same is passed to Executor
multiproto is engine/backend for TemplateExecutor which takes care of sharing logic between protocols and executing them in order
Execution
when multi protocol template is executed , all protocol requests present in Queue are executed in order
and dynamic values extracted are added to template context.
- Protocol Responses
apart from extracted
internal:true
values response fields/values of protocol are added to template context at ExecutorOptions.TemplateCtx
which takes care of sync and other issues if any. all response fields are prefixed with template type prefix ex: ssl_subject_dn
Adding New Protocol to multi protocol execution logic
while logic/implementation of multi protocol execution is abstracted. it requires 3 statements to be added in newly implemented protocol
to make response fields of that protocol available to global context
- Add
request.options.GetTemplateCtx(f.input.MetaInput).GetAll()
to variablesMap in ExecuteWithResults
Method just above request.options.Variables.Evaluate
// example
values := generators.MergeMaps(payloadValues, hostnameVariables, request.options.GetTemplateCtx(f.input.MetaInput).GetAll())
variablesMap := request.options.Variables.Evaluate(values)
- Add all response fields to template context just after response map is available
outputEvent := request.responseToDSLMap(compiledRequest, response, domain, question, traceData)
// expose response variables in proto_var format
// this is no-op if the template is not a multi protocol template
request.options.AddTemplateVars(request.Type(),request.ID, outputEvent)
- Append all available template context values to outputEvent
// add variables from template context before matching/extraction
outputEvent = generators.MergeMaps(outputEvent, request.options.GetTemplateCtx(f.input.MetaInput).GetAll())
adding these 3 statements takes care of all logic related to multi protocol execution
Exceptions
- statements 1 & 2 are intentionally skipped in
file
protocol to avoid redundant data
- file/dir input paths don't contain variables or are used in path (yet)
- since files are processed by scanning each line. adding statement 2 will unintenionally load all file(s) data