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Use an Arc to share stub resolver #393

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This somewhat simplifies usage for call sites. They no longer need to use &&StubResolver for some APIs, and a future can be handed off without being tied to the lifetime of the resolver.

The documentation already mentioned that the StubResolver was behind an Arc so I did not need to updated it. StubResolver now implements clone, which is cheap since it merely clones the Arc with the inner data.

This change is backwards-incompatible, and necessitates a bump in minor for the next unstable release.

Fixes: #175

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v2: formatting

@WhyNotHugo WhyNotHugo force-pushed the arc-stub-resolver branch 2 times, most recently from ea465e3 to 87ffe8b Compare September 16, 2024 17:54
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partim commented Oct 2, 2024

Thank you for the PR!

Would it make sense to offer both, i.e., the current resolver and, say, a SharedResolver that keeps the resolver behind an arc? It would need its own query type, but I suppose that’s fine?

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Would it make sense to offer both, i.e., the current resolver and, say, a SharedResolver that keeps the resolver behind an arc?

I don't see the value in it.

The difference in performance is meaningless. Each time that a DNS request is executed and parsed, the new implementation creates an Arc instead of a double-reference. Dereferencing the Arc should have no overhead.

The existing API is pretty un-ergonomic to use too, necessitating a double-reference to be used, and it always needs to explicitly outlive queries and their response.

This somewhat simplifies usage for call sites. They no longer need to
use `&&StubResolver` for some APIs, and a future can be handed off
without being tied to the lifetime of the resolver.

The documentation already mentioned that the StubResolver was behind an
Arc so I did not need to updated it. StubResolver now implements clone,
which is cheap since it merely clones the Arc with the inner data.

This change is backwards-incompatible, and necessitates a bump in minor
for the next unstable release.

Fixes: NLnetLabs#175
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Make the stub resolver shareable.
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