view tests/test-absorb-phase.t @ 40636:054d0fcba2c4

commandserver: add experimental option to use separate message channel

This is loosely based on the idea of the TortoiseHg's pipeui extension,
which attaches ui.label to message text so the command-server client can
capture prompt text, for example.

https://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/thg/src/4.7.2/tortoisehg/util/pipeui.py

I was thinking that this functionality could be generalized to templating,
but changed mind as doing template stuff would be unnecessarily complex.
It's merely a status message, a simple serialization option should suffice.

Since this slightly changes the command-server protocol, it's gated by a
config knob. If the config is enabled, and if it's supported by the server,
"message-encoding: <name>" is advertised so the client can stop parsing
'o'/'e' channel data and read encoded messages from the 'm' channel. As we
might add new message encodings in future releases, client can specify a list
of encoding names in preferred order.

This patch includes 'cbor' encoding as example. Perhaps, 'json' should be
supported as well.

  $ cat >> $HGRCPATH << EOF
  > [extensions]
  > absorb=
  > drawdag=$TESTDIR/drawdag.py
  > EOF

  $ hg init
  $ hg debugdrawdag <<'EOS'
  > C
  > |
  > B
  > |
  > A
  > EOS

  $ hg phase -r A --public -q
  $ hg phase -r C --secret --force -q

  $ hg update C -q
  $ printf B1 > B

  $ hg absorb -aq

  $ hg log -G -T '{desc} {phase}'
  @  C secret
  |
  o  B draft
  |
  o  A public