Previously, a connection would be shut down immediately as soon as its `ConnectionHandler` reports `KeepAlive::No`. As we have gained experience with libp2p, it turned out that this isn't ideal.
For one, tests often need to keep connections alive longer than the configured protocols require. Plus, some usecases require connections to be kept alive in general.
Both of these needs are currently served by the `keep_alive::Behaviour`. That one does essentially nothing other than statically returning `KeepAlive::Yes` from its `ConnectionHandler`.
It makes much more sense to deprecate `keep_alive::Behaviour` and instead allow users to globally configure an `idle_conncetion_timeout` on the `Swarm`. This timeout comes into effect once a `ConnectionHandler` reports `KeepAlive::No`. To start with, this timeout is 0. Together with https://github.com/libp2p/rust-libp2p/issues/3844, this will allow us to move towards a much more aggressive closing of idle connections, together with a more ergonomic way of opting out of this behaviour.
Fixes#4121.
Pull-Request: #4161.
Previously we would increase a counter / gauge / histogram on each received identify information. These metrics are missleading, as e.g. they depend on the identify interval and don't represent the set of currently connected peers.
With this commit, identify information is tracked for the currently connected peers only. Instead of an increase on each received identify information, metrics represent the status quo (Gauge).
Example:
```
\# HELP libp2p_libp2p_identify_remote_protocols Number of connected nodes supporting a specific protocol, with "unrecognized" for each peer supporting one or more unrecognized protocols...
\# TYPE libp2p_libp2p_identify_remote_protocols gauge
libp2p_libp2p_identify_remote_protocols_total{protocol="/ipfs/id/push/1.0.0"} 1
libp2p_libp2p_identify_remote_protocols_total{protocol="/ipfs/id/1.0.0"} 1
libp2p_libp2p_identify_remote_protocols_total{protocol="/ipfs/ping/1.0.0"} 1
libp2p_libp2p_identify_remote_protocols_total{protocol="unrecognized"} 1
\# HELP libp2p_libp2p_identify_remote_listen_addresses Number of connected nodes advertising a specific listen address...
\# TYPE libp2p_libp2p_identify_remote_listen_addresses gauge
libp2p_libp2p_identify_remote_listen_addresses_total{listen_address="/ip4/tcp"} 1
libp2p_libp2p_identify_remote_listen_addresses_total{listen_address="/ip4/udp/quic"} 1
\# HELP libp2p_libp2p_identify_local_observed_addresses Number of connected nodes observing the local node at a specific address...
\# TYPE libp2p_libp2p_identify_local_observed_addresses gauge
libp2p_libp2p_identify_local_observed_addresses_total{observed_address="/ip4/tcp"} 1
```
Pull-Request: #3325.
In the libp2p specs, the only handshake pattern that is specified is the XX handshake. Support for other handshake patterns can be added through external modules. While we are at it, we rename the remaining types to following the laid out naming convention.
The tests for handshakes other than XX are removed. The handshakes still work as we don't touch them in this patch.
Related #2217.
Pull-Request: #3768.
The `unreachable_pub` lint makes us aware of uses of `pub` that are not actually reachable from the crate root. This is considered good because it means reading a `pub` somewhere means it is actually public API. Some of our crates are quite large and keeping their entire API surface in your head is difficult.
We should strive for most items being `pub(crate)`. This lint helps us enforce that.
Pull-Request: #3735.
Due to cargo's feature unification, a full build of our workspace doesn't actually check whether the examples compile as standalone projects.
We add a new CI check that iterates through all crates in the `examples/` directory and runs a plain `cargo check` on them. Any failure is bubbled up via `set -e`, thus failing CI in case one of the `cargo check` commands fails.
To fix the current failures, we construct a simple TCP transport everywhere where we were previously using `development_transport`. That is because `development_transport` requires `mplex` which is now deprecated.
Related #3657.
Related #3809.
Pull-Request: #3811.
