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- use recipient instead of forwarded as it seemed more intuitive
- descirbe how the request is responded
- use 'component' instead of 'program' where it's more appropriate
- use 'process' instead of 'program' where it's more appropriate

this will make the caller side much simpler.  in particular, the caller
now doesn't have to handle exceptions.  connect() and close() can now
be private.

To handle various types of requests, the constructor is extended to take
a message type, which will be used in the log message on failure.
log message ID and description were made generic.

when validation of statistics data to send to statistics module is
failed.

  "[master] update the ChangeLog entry for trac928, trac929 and trac930"
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  "[trac930] revise the entry of ChangeLog for trac928, trac929 and trac930"
  f20be125

  "[trac930]"
  fcc70704

  "[trac930]"
  da5d5926

  "[trac930] refactor unittests"
  0314c7bb

  "[trac930] add comments about abstracts of the test scripts in their headers"
  b8cecbbd

  "[trac930] modify stats.py"
  7a31e95e

  "[trac930] modify b10-stats_test.py"
  e18a678b

  "[trac930] remove tailing whitespaces."
  1d1a8793

  "[trac930] raise StatsError including errors in the stats spec file"
  c6948a6d

  "[trac930] rename the function name"
  db0371fc

  "[trac930] remove a unnecessary x bit from stats_httpd.py.in"
  e906efc3

  "[trac930] modify logging"
  d86a9dce

  "[trac930] modify the update_modues function"
  4c2732cb

  "[trac930]"
  aaffb9c8

  "[trac930] remove unnecessary a white space"
  e8a22472

  "[trac930] add a test pattern which the set command with a non-existent item"
  2c22d334

  "[trac930] modify parse_spec function"
  8a24b906

  "[trac930] fix conflicts with trac1021"
  7275c59d

  "[trac930] add changes because query counter names described in the specfile are changed."
  bcf37a11

  "[trac930] add the logging when the validation of statistics data fails"
  a142fa63

  "[trac930] Add unittests to test sumitStatistics with the validation of statistics data and add mock ModuleSpec class"
  ae8748f7

  "[trac930] Add prototypes of validator_typea and registerStatisticsValidator"
  d0d5a671

  "[trac930]"
  a9a976d2

  "[trac930] add the helper functions which are used around the registration of the function to validate the statistics data."
  df9a8f92

  "[trac930] add new messages into the message file of Auth and Boss"
  e9562533

  "[trac930] add statistics validation for bob"
  28cad73d

  "[trac930]"
  4de3a5bd

  "[trac930] remove unneeded empty TODO comments"
  aa108cc8

  "[trac930] add new entry for #928-#930"
  691328d9

  "[trac930] refurbish the unittests for new stats module, new stats httpd module"
  c06463cf

  "[trac930] modify Stats"
  c074f6e0

  "[trac930]"
  daa1d6dd

  "[trac930] update spec file of stats module"
  e7b4337a

  "[trac930] update argument name and argument format of set command in auth module and boss module"
  0b235902

  "[trac930] remove description about removing statistics data by stats module"
  c19a295e

  "[trac930] add a column "Owner" in the table tag"
  9261da87

  "[trac930] remove descriptions about "stats-schema.spec" and add description about new"
  d4078d52

  "[trac930] add utilities and mock-up modules for unittests of"
  1aa728dd

  "[trac930] remove unneeded mockups, fake modules and dummy data"
  1768e822

  "[trac930] remove unneeded specfile "stats-schema.spec""
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when validation of statistics data to send to statistics module is failed.