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A modern and feature-rich (private) BitTorrent tracker.
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Database configuration needed even when it's not used #999

Open josecelano opened 1 month ago

josecelano commented 1 month ago

Usually, when you run the tracker for benchmarking, you disable persistency completely.

[metadata]
schema_version = "2.0.0"

[logging]
threshold = "error"

[core]
listed = false
private = false
tracker_usage_statistics = false

[core.database]
driver = "sqlite3"
path = "./sqlite3.db"

[core.tracker_policy]
persistent_torrent_completed_stat = false
remove_peerless_torrents = false

[[udp_trackers]]
bind_address = "0.0.0.0:6969"

Even if you don't use the database at all, you need to add either the database configuration:

[core.database]
driver = "sqlite3"
path = "./sqlite3.db"

Or to create the default location for the database:

./storage/tracker/lib/database/

Otherwise, you get this error:

TORRUST_TRACKER_CONFIG_TOML_PATH=./share/default/config/tracker.udp.benchmarking.toml torrust-tracker
Loading extra configuration from file: `./share/default/config/tracker.udp.benchmarking.toml` ...
2024-08-07T14:37:42.754632Z ERROR r2d2: unable to open database file: ./storage/tracker/lib/database/sqlite3.db

Besides, the database is created and tables too.

I think the app should not:

If none of the features requiring persistency is enabled.

cc @da2ce7

josecelano commented 1 month ago

I think the problem is we create the tables when we instantiate the DB driver:

pub fn build(driver: &Driver, db_path: &str) -> Result<Box<dyn Database>, Error> {
    let database = match driver {
        Driver::Sqlite3 => Builder::<Sqlite>::build(db_path),
        Driver::MySQL => Builder::<Mysql>::build(db_path),
    }?;

    database.create_database_tables().expect("Could not create database tables.");

    Ok(database)
}

I think we should move that logic out of the driver constructor and use an internal flag to call create_database_tables only once (the first time the driver is used).