The new flag type is supposed to be used for specifying URL values which
could contain sensitive information such as auth tokens in GET params or
HTTP basic authentication.
The URL flag also allows loading its value from files if `file://`
prefix is specified. As example, the new flag type was used in
app/vmbackup as it requires specifying `authKey` param for making the
snapshot.
See related issue
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/5973
Thanks to @wasim-nihal for initial implementation
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/6060
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Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
This allows removing importing unneeded command-line flags into binaries, which import lib/storage,
which, in turn, was importing lib/snapshot in order to use Time, Validate and NewName functions.
This is a follow-up for 83e55456e2
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/5738
This prevents vmbackup from leaking passwords into logs like shown below.
2023-01-11T15:00:01.050Z info VictoriaMetrics/lib/logger/flag.go:12 build version: vmbackup-20221214-211706-tags-v1.85.1-0-g09a70d3e9
2023-01-11T15:00:01.050Z info VictoriaMetrics/lib/logger/flag.go:13 command-line flags
2023-01-11T15:00:01.050Z info VictoriaMetrics/lib/logger/flag.go:20 -dst="fs:///vm-backups/latest"
2023-01-11T15:00:01.050Z info VictoriaMetrics/lib/logger/flag.go:20 -snapshot.createURL="http://user:super_sercret123@victoriametricspshot/create"
2023-01-11T15:00:01.050Z info VictoriaMetrics/lib/logger/flag.go:20 -storageDataPath="/storage"
2023-01-11T15:00:01.050Z info VictoriaMetrics/app/vmbackup/main.go:53 Snapshot create url http://user:super_sercret123@victoriametrics:8428/snapshot/create
2023-01-11T15:00:01.050Z info VictoriaMetrics/app/vmbackup/main.go:60 Snapshot delete url http://user:super_sercret123@victoriametrics:8428/snapshot/delete
Use "unexpected status code returned from %q: %d; expecting %d" log message format
instead of less clear format "unexpected status code returned from %q; expecting %d; got %d"
This is a follow-up for c612bb165e
ioutil.ReadAll is deprecated since Go1.16 - see https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.16#ioutil
VictoriaMetrics requires at least Go1.18, so it is OK to switch from ioutil.ReadAll to io.ReadAll.
This is a follow-up for 02ca2342ab
