Lua module samples not working about ironbee HOT 5 CLOSED

Yes, this is out of date and should probably be removed. We shifted focus from lua modules to lua rules. Take a look at:

lua/ironbee-api.lua
tests/test_module_rules_lua.lua

In addition, I updated the lates docs with some basic info:

https://www.ironbee.com/docs/manual/ironbee-reference-manual.html#N100C2

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Lua rules don't seem to provide enough extensibility, as compared to modules. We wanted to use Ironbee as a framework to build specific "intelligent" sensors, because it seemed to allow quick module prototyping via lua modules coupled with ability to rewrite them into c to gain performance.

What are the plans for lua modules support? Will it be dropped in favor of rules and C modules?

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It is our plan to support lua modules again. We learned quite a bit about integrating lua with the rules, so we need to rewrite lua modules using these lessons learned. One item I will drop is the fixed "onSomeEvent" handlers and go with having to register them like C. We will also be continuing to build lua api wrappers (lua/ironbee-api.lua) and be able to use those in modules as well as rules. I'll take a look at it this week and see how much of this we can get done as I want to use this myself.

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Lua modules are working again!

See the updated example here:
https://github.com/ironbee/ironbee/blob/master/lua/example.lua

And the Lua wrapper API (which we will be expanding as needed) here:
https://github.com/ironbee/ironbee/blob/master/lua/ironbee-api.lua

And the C API (Foreign Function Interface - FFI) exposed to lua here:
https://github.com/ironbee/ironbee/blob/master/lua/ironbee-ffi.lua

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Quick example config loading example.lua:

### Logging
Log debug.log
LogLevel info

### Sensor Info
SensorId E4F68B09-3D08-40A9-8B80-78879708AD01

### Load Modules
LoadModule "ibmod_htp.so"
LoadModule "ibmod_lua.so"
LoadModule "ibmod_pcre.so"
LoadModule "ibmod_ac.so"
LoadModule "ibmod_rules.so"

# Load a lua module
LuaLoadModule "example.lua"

# This directive is defined in the lua module and context aware
LuaExampleDirective "Value in MAIN"

# Enable audit engine
AuditEngine RelevantOnly
AuditLogBaseDir /tmp/ironbee
AuditLogSubDirFormat "%Y%m%d-%H%M"
AuditLogDirMode 0755
AuditLogFileMode 0644
AuditLogParts all

### Buffering
RequestBuffering On
ResponseBuffering On

### Rule diagnostics
# What data to log
RuleEngineLogData all
# What level to log the data
RuleEngineLogLevel info

### Sites
# Default
<Site default>
    SiteId C6D2A3E6-88DD-4185-AC2B-FC662D59F514
    Service *:*
    Hostname *

    # This directive is defined in the lua module and context aware
    LuaExampleDirective "Value in DEFAULT SITE"
</Site>

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