[Locking] Proposal to change ra_lock and ra_unlock to take lists of lock tokens

The Issue At Hand:

With the current locking design, my only recourse in a situation where
we need to unlock (or lock) multiple files is to pass each lock token
that we discover to svn_ra_unlock (or svn_ra_lock) and send each
lock/unlock request over the ra layer one at a time. While simple
enough, this is extremely inefficient.

The Proposed Solution:

After discussing this with sussman and cmpilato, I propose that we
modify svn_ra_lock and svn_ra_unlock to take a list of lock tokens.
That way, each ra layer can deal with the tokens as efficiently or
inefficiently as necessary. Sussman's already got some ideas WRT ra_dav
using POST requests instead of LOCK and UNLOCK requests, and the other
layers can just shoot the whole list at the server in one request.

Thoughts?

-Fitz

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Received on Thu Feb 24 22:36:55 2005