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Re: [RFC] API for reading trees from repo or WC

From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 19:22:13 +0200

Julian Foad wrote on Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 18:12:09 +0100:
> On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 17:29 +0200, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> > No comments on the general idea as I'm not sufficiently familiar with
> > the internals of the client library. That said, ...
>
> Thanks for the comments below. I've checked in an initial API and
> implementation in the branch 'tree-read-api', without addressing your
> comments yet.

> As for public ... well, if it's good, yes I'd hope so;
> and you said on IRC that in that case we'd prefer a hidden-vtable
> implementation (separate API functions) so I'll change it to that format
> at some point.
>

Thanks. For the record, http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1931
is what prompted me to ask about vtable or no vtable; and on IRC other
halfway proposals were suggested, including

  SVN_ERR(vtable->verb(vtable, args));

> - Julian
>
>
> > Julian Foad wrote on Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 14:56:42 +0100:
> > > This is a Request For Comments on the creation of an API for reading a
> > > tree of dirs and files from an arbitrary source via a common API.
> > >
> >
> > Would it be a public API?
> >
> > > /* V-table for #svn_client_tree_t.
> > > *
> > > * Paths are relpaths, relative to the tree root.
> > > * Revision numbers and repository ids are #SVN_INVALID_REVNUM and NULL
> > > * for an unversioned node (including a node that is a local add/copy/move
> > > * in a WC working tree).
> > > */
> > > typedef struct svn_client_tree__vtable_t
> > > {
> > > /* Fetch the node kind of the node at @a relpath.
> > > * (### and other metadata? revnum? props?)
> > > *
> > > * Set @a *kind to the node kind.
> > > */
> > > svn_error_t *(*get_kind)(svn_client_tree_t *tree,
> > > svn_node_kind_t *kind,
> > > const char *relpath,
> > > apr_pool_t *scratch_pool);
> >
> > Return an svn_client_info2_t ?
> >
> > >
> > > /* Fetch the contents and properties of the file at @a relpath.
> > > svn_error_t *(*get_file)(svn_client_tree_t *tree,
> > > svn_stream_t **stream,
> > > apr_hash_t **props,
> > > const char *relpath,
> > > apr_pool_t *result_pool,
> > > apr_pool_t *scratch_pool);
> > >
> > > /* Fetch the entries and properties of the directory at @a relpath.
> > > svn_error_t *(*get_dir)(svn_client_tree_t *tree,
> > > apr_hash_t **dirents,
> > > apr_hash_t **props,
> > > const char *relpath,
> > > apr_pool_t *result_pool,
> > > apr_pool_t *scratch_pool);
> > >
> > > /* Push a sub-tree into an editor, as a delta against an empty tree.
> > > * This is useful for efficiency when streaming a (sub-)tree from a
> > > * remote source. */
> > > svn_error_t *(*push_as_delta_edit)(svn_client_tree_t *tree,
> > > const char *relpath,
> > > svn_delta_editor_t *editor,
> > > void *edit_baton,
> > > apr_pool_t *result_pool,
> > > apr_pool_t *scratch_pool)
> >
> > Add a "describe this tree" member? e.g., it could return the
> > PATH_OR_URL_at_PEG being described.
> >
> > > } svn_client_tree__vtable_t;
>
>
Received on 2011-10-07 19:23:07 CEST

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