I currently am working on vendor go balancer code. I need to remove the tcp dial call and emulate a successful connection without the call. In the code below, there is this line:
ds, err := net.Dial("tcp", backend.String());if err != nil {
log.Printf("failed to dial %s: %s", backend, err)
us.Close()
return
}
What this does is make a dial to the tcp server and then return connection response in ds
, which is defined here: https://golang.org/pkg/net/#Dial
What i need is to obtain the ds
without doing the tcp dialer
. I'm trying to test the load balancer without any actual tcp calls. So, essentially, when we enter handleConnection
wed create a net connection prior to the tcp dial and use this net conn, which should emulate 100% net connection before the tcp dialing begins.
func copy(wc io.WriteCloser, r io.Reader) { defer wc.Close()
io.Copy(wc, r)
}
func handleConnection(us net.Conn, backend BA.Backend) {
if backend == nil {
log.Printf("no backend available for connection from %s",
us.RemoteAddr())
us.Close()
return
}
host, _, _ := net.SplitHostPort(us.RemoteAddr().String())
_, ok := dbAuthTokenData[host]; if !ok {
w := bufio.NewWriter(us)
w.WriteString("InvalidCredentials")
w.Flush()
us.Close()
return
}
ds, err := net.Dial("tcp", backend.String());if err != nil {
log.Printf("failed to dial %s: %s", backend, err)
us.Close()
return
}
// Ignore errors
go copy(ds, us)
go copy(us, ds)
}
func tcpBalance(bind string, backends BA.Backends) error {
log.Println("using tcp balancing")
ln, err := net.Listen("tcp", bind)
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("failed to bind: %s", err)
}
log.Printf("listening on %s, balancing %d backends", bind, backends.Len())
for {
conn, err := ln.Accept()
if err != nil {
log.Printf("failed to accept: %s", err)
continue
}
go handleConnection(conn, backends.Choose())
}
return err
}
I tried commenting out go handleConnection(conn, backends.Choose())
but that failed.
The pattern you could refactor your code is to create a Dialer
interface. In your code example you are using the returned ds
just as an io.ReadWriteCloser
. So you don't need to implement the whole net.Conn
interface. As net.Conn
has the read and write method inside everything works
type Dialer interface{
Dial(network, address string) (io.ReadWriteCloser, error)
}
Now let's change your function:
func handleConnection(us net.Conn, backend BA.Backend, d Dialer) {
// ...
// Code here stays
ds, err := d.Dial("tcp", backend.String());if err != nil {
log.Printf("failed to dial %s: %s", backend, err)
us.Close()
return
}
// ...
}
That your production code works you now need to define a type netDialer
which wraps the net.Dial()
function. In your test you can use a testDialer
which uses a bytes.Buffer
.
This answers your question:
Emulate net connection without entering net dial