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Re: API simplification opportunity Re: svn commit: r1348666 - in /subversion/trunk/subversion: include/ libsvn_delta/ libsvn_fs_fs/ libsvn_ra/ tests/libsvn_delta/

From: Stefan Fuhrmann <stefan.fuhrmann_at_wandisco.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 02:56:15 +0200

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:55 AM, Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>wrote:

> stefan2_at_apache.org wrote on Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 21:34:22 -0000:
> > Author: stefan2
> > Date: Sun Jun 10 21:34:21 2012
> > New Revision: 1348666
> >
> > URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1348666&view=rev
> > Log:
> > When handing out node contents, the delta streams don't need
> > to calculate MD5 checksums as the result will not be used and the
> > check would be redundant even if it were made.
> >
> > Thus, rev the svn_txdelta API to calculate the checksum only
> > upon specific request and update all callers to use the new API.
> >
> ...
> > Modified: subversion/trunk/subversion/include/svn_delta.h
> > URL:
> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/trunk/subversion/include/svn_delta.h?rev=1348666&r1=1348665&r2=1348666&view=diff
> >
> ==============================================================================
> > --- subversion/trunk/subversion/include/svn_delta.h (original)
> > +++ subversion/trunk/subversion/include/svn_delta.h Sun Jun 10 21:34:21
> 2012
> > @@ -367,10 +367,26 @@ svn_txdelta_md5_digest(svn_txdelta_strea
> > + * If @a calculate_checksum
> > + * is set, you may call @ref svn_txdelta_md5_digest to get an MD5
> checksum
> > + * for @a target.
> > *
> > * Do any necessary allocation in a sub-pool of @a pool.
> > + *
> > + * @since New in 1.8.
> > + */
> > +void
> > +svn_txdelta2(svn_txdelta_stream_t **stream,
> > + svn_stream_t *source,
> > + svn_stream_t *target,
> > + svn_boolean_t calculate_checksum,
>
> As of today, only svn_txdelta() and window-test.c pass TRUE for @a
> calculate_checksum. Do we anticipate needing to pass TRUE For it in any
> new code?
>

No, I don't anticipate extra need for that parameter
neither do I feel that it is useless. How would you
implement svn_txdelta() without that parameter?

> If not, we could take this opportunity to remove this parameter from the
> public API (it's a trivial patch).
>

If we can do without, I'd say let's lose the parameter
and make old and new API only differ in behavior.

> > + apr_pool_t *pool);
> > +
> > +/** Similar to svn_txdelta2 but always calculating the target checksum.
> > + *
> > + * @deprecated Provided for backward compatibility with the 1.7 API.
> > */
> > +SVN_DEPRECATED
> > void
> > svn_txdelta(svn_txdelta_stream_t **stream,
> > svn_stream_t *source,
> >
>

-- Stefan^2.

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