Change exit node (countries list) command

[ggondim]

Also, it would be nice to have a command to reconfigure exit nodes countries list.

https://pt.wikihow.com/Definir-um-Pa%C3%ADs-Espec%C3%ADfico-no-Navegador-de-Internet-Tor

[Horaddrim]

I've been thinking about how to do it, and have imagined something like this:

• CLI Design:

  • nodes [-f or --file FILE]: Will be the subcommand to the original nipe root command, been responsible for holding all the operations related to the exit nodes' configuration. The optional flag --file can be specified and will be passed to any subcommand, using the default value to /etc/tor/torrc and will be referred further on simply as $FILE.

  • nodes list: A simple list command, listing in a human-readable way all the exit nodes already configured inside the $FILE.

  • nodes add [--validate or -v] {ExitNodes...}: Receiving a variable amount of exit node's codes, this command will concatenate these given nodes to the already existing inside the $FILE, and validate against a list of the valid node codes present locally, in an in-memory dictionary, following this source and them print the same output as the list command.
    OBS.: If you guys know a better source of this list, please, this is just a proposal.

  • nodes rm [--validate or -v] {ExitNodes...}: The same idea behind the add command, but this will remove the given nodes.

• Implementation:
  My first idea was to separately write two functions that will be responsible for handling read and write operations upon the configuration file of the Tor service, named as $FILE, inside our Nipe::Functions module since this can be reused in the rest of the application. Then with this function, written and tested*, I'll create the new Nipe::Nodes module, with two more specific functions using this recently created function, one of them will be responsible for reading all the exit nodes inside the $FILE, and return them in a list of strings, using the exit node's code. The other function will receive a list of strings with the exit node's code, and then write this to the $FILE. And at the end, write another function to handle the transformation of a list of strings containing the node codes to a human-readable output in the STDOUT of the process. With this module written and tested*, move to the nipe.pl file, which today handles all the CLI operations, and implement the specified design above.

  * To write tests to this functions, I'll use only pure Perl. Test framework suggestions are more than welcome from you Monks 💖