Re: API to manage cached information

On Fri, 05 Jan 2007, Mark Phippard wrote:

> Does Subversion have any API for managing the information it caches in the
> runtime configuration area? For example, suppose I have cached guest
> credentials for some repository, like (http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn).
> Now I get commit rights and want to supply new credentials. Is there an API
> that could delete the cached credentials for that repository? If so, could
> that API be exposed to JavaHL? If not, would creating an API like this ever
> be considered? It seems like GUI clients would all benefit from having such
> an API.

I don't believe that there's an explicit API as such. With the
command-line client, you can provide alternate credentials which
correspond to a cached username. If the credentials are used
successfully, I *think* they over-write whatever was cached.

How were you thinking that an API would look?