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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: Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 22:22:14 +0200

Stefan Fuhrmann wrote on Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 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?
>

I would remove the parameter from the public API only. Internally we
will define both svn_txdelta() and svn_txdelta2() as one-line wrappers
around some third function which does take an 'svn_boolean_t
calculate_checksum' parameter.
Received on 2012-10-18 22:22:56 CEST

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