Since commit 3a4bedccc ("MEDIUM: vars: replace the global name index with
a hash") the names of HAProxy variables are no longer saved, ie their
64-bit hashes are saved instead.
This is very convenient for the HAProxy itself, but for the OpenTracing
module it is a problem because the names of the variables are important
when transferring the OpenTracing context. Namely, this context consists
of an unknown amount of data stored in a key-value format. The number
of these data (and the name of the variable used for this purpose) is
determined with the configuration of the OpenTracing filter, as well as
with the tracer used. The two previous sentences seem to be in conflict,
but that is only so at first glance. The function in the OpenTracing
filter used to read the context does not really know this, neither their
number nor its name. The only thing that function actually knows is the
prefix of the variable names used for context transfer, and by that it
could find all the necessary data. Of course, until the application of
the above-mentioned commit.
The problem is solved in a very simple way: in a common variable that
the filter always knows its name, the names of all variables that are the
product of the OpenTracing context are saved. The names of these context
variables can only be added to that common variable. When that variable
is no longer needed (when we no longer need context), it is deleted.
The format for saving data to this common variable is as follows:
+-----+---------------+-- .. --+-----+---------------+
| len | variable name | | len | variable name |
+-----+---------------+-- .. --+-----+---------------+
The amount of memory space used to store the length of the name is 1 byte,
with a sign (the minus sign is provided for inactive records, but this is
not currently used). This means that the maximum length of the variable
name to be saved is 127 characters, which is quite enough for use in the
filter. The buffer size for such data storage is global.tune.bufsize.
This patch must be backported in 2.5.
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