annotate hgext/clonebundles.py @ 26644:74de1c59f71c

clonebundles: filter on bundle specification

Not all clients are capable of reading every bundle. Currently, content
negotiation to ensure a server sends a client a compatible bundle
format is performed at request time. The response bundle is dynamically
generated at request time, so this works fine.

Clone bundles are statically generated *before* the request. This means
that a modern server could produce bundles that a legacy client isn't
capable of reading. Without some kind of "type hint" in the clone
bundles manifest, a client may attempt to download an incompatible
bundle. Furthermore, a client may not realize a bundle is incompatible
until it has processed part of the bundle (imagine consuming a 1 GB
changegroup bundle2 part only to discover the bundle2 part afterwards is
incompatibl). This would waste time and resources. And it isn't very
user friendly.

Clone bundle manifests thus need to advertise the *exact* format of the
hosted bundles so clients may filter out entries that they don't know
how to read. This patch introduces that mechanism.

We introduce the BUNDLESPEC attribute to declare the "bundle
specification" of the entry. Bundle specifications are parsed using
exchange.parsebundlespecification, which uses the same strings as the
"--type" argument to `hg bundle`. The supported bundle specifications
are well defined and backwards compatible.

When a client encounters a BUNDLESPEC that is invalid or unsupported, it
silently ignores the entry.

# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.

"""server side extension to advertise pre-generated bundles to seed clones.

The extension essentially serves the content of a .hg/clonebundles.manifest
file to clients that request it.

The clonebundles.manifest file contains a list of URLs and attributes. URLs
hold pre-generated bundles that a client fetches and applies. After applying
the pre-generated bundle, the client will connect back to the original server
and pull data not in the pre-generated bundle.

Manifest File Format:

The manifest file contains a newline (\n) delimited list of entries.

Each line in this file defines an available bundle. Lines have the format:

    <URL> [<key>=<value]

That is, a URL followed by extra metadata describing it. Metadata keys and
values should be URL encoded.

This metadata is optional. It is up to server operators to populate this
metadata.

Keys in UPPERCASE are reserved for use by Mercurial. All non-uppercase keys
can be used by site installations.

The server operator is responsible for generating the bundle manifest file.

Metadata Attributes:

BUNDLESPEC
   A "bundle specification" string that describes the type of the bundle.

   These are string values that are accepted by the "--type" argument of
   `hg bundle`.

   The values are parsed in strict mode, which means they must be of the
   "<compression>-<type>" form. See
   mercurial.exchange.parsebundlespec() for more details.

   Clients will automatically filter out specifications that are unknown or
   unsupported so they won't attempt to download something that likely won't
   apply.

   The actual value doesn't impact client behavior beyond filtering:
   clients will still sniff the bundle type from the header of downloaded
   files.
"""

from mercurial import (
    extensions,
    wireproto,
)

testedwith = 'internal'

def capabilities(orig, repo, proto):
    caps = orig(repo, proto)

    # Only advertise if a manifest exists. This does add some I/O to requests.
    # But this should be cheaper than a wasted network round trip due to
    # missing file.
    if repo.opener.exists('clonebundles.manifest'):
        caps.append('clonebundles')

    return caps

@wireproto.wireprotocommand('clonebundles', '')
def bundles(repo, proto):
    """Server command for returning info for available bundles to seed clones.

    Clients will parse this response and determine what bundle to fetch.

    Other extensions may wrap this command to filter or dynamically emit
    data depending on the request. e.g. you could advertise URLs for
    the closest data center given the client's IP address.
    """
    return repo.opener.tryread('clonebundles.manifest')

def extsetup(ui):
    extensions.wrapfunction(wireproto, '_capabilities', capabilities)