annotate mercurial/i18n.py @ 36426:23d12524a202

http: drop custom http client logic

Eight and a half years ago, as my starter bug on code.google.com, I
investigated a mysterious "broken pipe" error from seemingly random
clients[0]. That investigation revealed a tragic story: the Python
standard library's httplib was (and remains) barely functional. During
large POSTs, if a server responds early with an error (even a
permission denied error!) the client only notices that the server
closed the connection and everything breaks. Such server behavior is
implicitly legal under RFC 2616 (the latest HTTP RFC as of when I was
last working on this), and my understanding is that later RFCs have
made it explicitly legal to respond early with any status code outside
the 2xx range.

I embarked, probably foolishly, on a journey to write a new http
library with better overall behavior. The http library appears to work
well in most cases, but it can get confused in the presence of
proxies, and it depends on select(2) which limits its utility if a lot
of file descriptors are open. I haven't touched the http library in
almost two years, and in the interim the Python community has
discovered a better way[1] of writing network code. In theory some day
urllib3 will have its own home-grown http library built on h11[2], or
we could do that. Either way, it's time to declare our current
confusingly-named "http2" client logic and move on. I do hope to
revisit this some day: it's still garbage that we can't even respond
with a 401 or 403 without reading the entire POST body from the
client, but the goalposts on writing a new http client library have
moved substantially. We're almost certainly better off just switching
to requests and eventually picking up their http fixes than trying to
live with something that realistically only we'll ever use. Another
approach would be to write an adapter so that Mercurial can use pycurl
if it's installed. Neither of those approaches seem like they should
be investigated prior to a release of Mercurial that works on Python
3: that's where the mindshare is going to be for any improvements to
the state of the http client art.

0: http://web.archive.org/web/20130501031801/http://code.google.com/p/support/issues/detail?id=2716
1: http://sans-io.readthedocs.io/
2: https://github.com/njsmith/h11

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2444

# i18n.py - internationalization support for mercurial
#
# Copyright 2005, 2006 Matt Mackall <[e-mail]>
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.

from __future__ import absolute_import

import gettext as gettextmod
import locale
import os
import sys

from . import (
    encoding,
    pycompat,
)

# modelled after templater.templatepath:
if getattr(sys, 'frozen', None) is not None:
    module = pycompat.sysexecutable
else:
    module = pycompat.fsencode(__file__)

try:
    unicode
except NameError:
    unicode = str

_languages = None
if (pycompat.iswindows
    and 'LANGUAGE' not in encoding.environ
    and 'LC_ALL' not in encoding.environ
    and 'LC_MESSAGES' not in encoding.environ
    and 'LANG' not in encoding.environ):
    # Try to detect UI language by "User Interface Language Management" API
    # if no locale variables are set. Note that locale.getdefaultlocale()
    # uses GetLocaleInfo(), which may be different from UI language.
    # (See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd374098(v=VS.85).aspx )
    try:
        import ctypes
        langid = ctypes.windll.kernel32.GetUserDefaultUILanguage()
        _languages = [locale.windows_locale[langid]]
    except (ImportError, AttributeError, KeyError):
        # ctypes not found or unknown langid
        pass

_ugettext = None

def setdatapath(datapath):
    datapath = pycompat.fsdecode(datapath)
    localedir = os.path.join(datapath, pycompat.sysstr('locale'))
    t = gettextmod.translation('hg', localedir, _languages, fallback=True)
    global _ugettext
    try:
        _ugettext = t.ugettext
    except AttributeError:
        _ugettext = t.gettext

_msgcache = {}  # encoding: {message: translation}

def gettext(message):
    """Translate message.

    The message is looked up in the catalog to get a Unicode string,
    which is encoded in the local encoding before being returned.

    Important: message is restricted to characters in the encoding
    given by sys.getdefaultencoding() which is most likely 'ascii'.
    """
    # If message is None, t.ugettext will return u'None' as the
    # translation whereas our callers expect us to return None.
    if message is None or not _ugettext:
        return message

    cache = _msgcache.setdefault(encoding.encoding, {})
    if message not in cache:
        if type(message) is unicode:
            # goofy unicode docstrings in test
            paragraphs = message.split(u'\n\n')
        else:
            paragraphs = [p.decode("ascii") for p in message.split('\n\n')]
        # Be careful not to translate the empty string -- it holds the
        # meta data of the .po file.
        u = u'\n\n'.join([p and _ugettext(p) or u'' for p in paragraphs])
        try:
            # encoding.tolocal cannot be used since it will first try to
            # decode the Unicode string. Calling u.decode(enc) really
            # means u.encode(sys.getdefaultencoding()).decode(enc). Since
            # the Python encoding defaults to 'ascii', this fails if the
            # translated string use non-ASCII characters.
            encodingstr = pycompat.sysstr(encoding.encoding)
            cache[message] = u.encode(encodingstr, "replace")
        except LookupError:
            # An unknown encoding results in a LookupError.
            cache[message] = message
    return cache[message]

def _plain():
    if ('HGPLAIN' not in encoding.environ
        and 'HGPLAINEXCEPT' not in encoding.environ):
        return False
    exceptions = encoding.environ.get('HGPLAINEXCEPT', '').strip().split(',')
    return 'i18n' not in exceptions

if _plain():
    _ = lambda message: message
else:
    _ = gettext