[asterisk-dev] [Code Review] Improve AMI long line error handling

[Paul Belanger]

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Any chance of a test for the testsuite?  Seems straightforward

- Paul


On Oct. 2, 2012, 11:07 a.m., David Lee wrote:
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> (Updated Oct. 2, 2012, 11:07 a.m.)
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> Review request for Asterisk Developers.
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> Summary
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> In AMI's parser, when it receives a long line (> 1024 characters), it discards that line, but continues to process the message normally.
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> Typically, this is not a problem because a) who has lines that long and b) usually a discarded line results in an invalid message. But if that line is specifying an optional field, then the message will be processed, you get a 'Response: Success', but things don't work the way you expected them to.
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> This patch changes the behavior when a long-too-long parse error occurs.
> * Changes the log message to avoid way-too-long (and truncated anyways) log messages
> * Adds a 'parsing' status flag to Response: Success
> * Sets parsing = MESSAGE_LINE_TOO_LONG if, well, a line is too long
> * Responds with an appropriate error if parsing != MESSAGE_OKAY
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> This addresses bug AST-961.
>     https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/AST-961
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> Diffs
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>   /certified/branches/1.8.15/main/manager.c 374105 
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> Diff: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/2142/diff
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> Testing
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> Used netcat to send commands with AMI, verifying that commands with long lines were rejected, and commands without long lines received after that were accepted.
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> Thanks,
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> David
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