Re: svn commit: r945280 - in /subversion/trunk: build.conf subversion/libsvn_ra_serf/commit.c subversion/mod_dav_svn/dav_svn.h subversion/mod_dav_svn/posts/ subversion/mod_dav_svn/posts/create-transaction.c subversion/mod_dav_svn/repos.c

Greg Stein wrote:
>> I have a local patch here that adds a mod_dav_svn utility function for
>> stringbuf'ing a request into a giant block of memory and parsing into a
>> skel. I can certainly switch to that approach if you feel that strongly
>> about it. Would you be okay with a documented requirement that these new
>> POSTs use "text/plain", skel input, where the first atom of the skel is the
>> POST operation verb ("create-transaction", "lock-paths", etc.)?
>
> Much more preferable!
>
> And note that skels are application/octet-stream since they can encode
> binary data (one the ways it will be easier to support!).

The primary bit of misfortune about our skel library is that it isn't
conducive to piecemeal generation of skel-string output. You can't really
say "print a string that contains a list opener" and then "print the
following N list items" and then "print the list closure". Obviously, this
speaks merely to the immaturity of the library (and a bit to its use thus
far only for relatively small pieces of information), so "it's a simple
matter of programming" to fix. :-)

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