annotate tests/test-issue672.t @ 24545:9e0c67e84896

json: implement {tags} template

Tags is pretty easy to implement. Let's start there.

The output is slightly different from `hg tags -Tjson`. For reference,
the CLI has the following output:

  [
   {
    "node": "e2049974f9a23176c2addb61d8f5b86e0d620490",
    "rev": 29880,
    "tag": "tip",
    "type": ""
   },
   ...
  ]

Our output has the format:

  {
    "node": "0aeb19ea57a6d223bacddda3871cb78f24b06510",
    "tags": [
      {
        "node": "e2049974f9a23176c2addb61d8f5b86e0d620490",
        "tag": "tag1",
        "date": [1427775457.0, 25200]
      },
      ...
    ]
  }

"rev" is omitted because it isn't a reliable identifier. We shouldn't
be exposing them in web APIs and giving the impression it remotely
resembles a stable identifier. Perhaps we could one day hide this behind
a config option (it might be useful to expose when running servers
locally).

The "type" of the tag isn't defined because this information isn't yet
exposed to the hgweb templater (it could be in a follow-up) and because
it is questionable whether different types should be exposed at all.
(Should the web interface really be exposing "local" tags?)

We use an object for the outer type instead of Array for a few reasons.
First, it is extensible. If we ever need to throw more global properties
into the output, we can do that without breaking backwards compatibility
(property additions should be backwards compatible). Second, uniformity
in web APIs is nice. Having everything return objects seems much saner than
a mix of array and object. Third, there are security issues with arrays
in older browsers. The JSON web services world almost never uses arrays
as the main type for this reason.

Another possibly controversial part about this patch is how dates are
defined. While JSON has a Date type, it is based on the JavaScript Date
type, which is widely considered a pile of garbage. It is a non-starter
for this reason.

Many of Mercurial's built-in date filters drop seconds resolution. So
that's a non-starter as well, since we want the API to be lossless where
possible. rfc3339date, rfc822date, isodatesec, and date are all lossless.
However, they each require the client to perform string parsing on top of
JSON decoding. While date parsing libraries are pretty ubiquitous, some
languages don't have them out of the box. However, pretty much every
programming language can deal with UNIX timestamps (which are just
integers or floats). So, we choose to use Mercurial's internal date
representation, which in JSON is modeled as float seconds since UNIX
epoch and an integer timezone offset from UTC (keep in mind
JavaScript/JSON models all "Numbers" as double prevision floating point
numbers, so there isn't a difference between ints and floats in JSON).

http://mercurial.selenic.com/bts/issue672

# 0-2-4
#  \ \ \
#   1-3-5
#
# rename in #1, content change in #4.

  $ hg init

  $ touch 1
  $ touch 2
  $ hg commit -Am init  # 0
  adding 1
  adding 2

  $ hg rename 1 1a
  $ hg commit -m rename # 1

  $ hg co -C 0
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved

  $ echo unrelated >> 2
  $ hg ci -m unrelated1 # 2
  created new head

  $ hg merge --debug 1
    searching for copies back to rev 1
    unmatched files in other:
     1a
    all copies found (* = to merge, ! = divergent, % = renamed and deleted):
     src: '1' -> dst: '1a' 
    checking for directory renames
  resolving manifests
   branchmerge: True, force: False, partial: False
   ancestor: 81f4b099af3d, local: c64f439569a9+, remote: c12dcd37c90a
   1: other deleted -> r
  removing 1
  updating: 1 1/2 files (50.00%)
   1a: remote created -> g
  getting 1a
  updating: 1a 2/2 files (100.00%)
   2: remote unchanged -> k
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  (branch merge, don't forget to commit)

  $ hg ci -m merge1 # 3

  $ hg co -C 2
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved

  $ echo hello >> 1
  $ hg ci -m unrelated2 # 4
  created new head

  $ hg co -C 3
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved

  $ hg merge -y --debug 4
    searching for copies back to rev 1
    unmatched files in local:
     1a
    all copies found (* = to merge, ! = divergent, % = renamed and deleted):
     src: '1' -> dst: '1a' *
    checking for directory renames
  resolving manifests
   branchmerge: True, force: False, partial: False
   ancestor: c64f439569a9, local: e327dca35ac8+, remote: 746e9549ea96
   preserving 1a for resolve of 1a
   1a: local copied/moved from 1 -> m
  updating: 1a 1/1 files (100.00%)
  picked tool 'internal:merge' for 1a (binary False symlink False)
  merging 1a and 1 to 1a
  my 1a@e327dca35ac8+ other 1@746e9549ea96 ancestor 1@81f4b099af3d
   premerge successful
  0 files updated, 1 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  (branch merge, don't forget to commit)

  $ hg co -C 4
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved

  $ hg merge -y --debug 3
    searching for copies back to rev 1
    unmatched files in other:
     1a
    all copies found (* = to merge, ! = divergent, % = renamed and deleted):
     src: '1' -> dst: '1a' *
    checking for directory renames
  resolving manifests
   branchmerge: True, force: False, partial: False
   ancestor: c64f439569a9, local: 746e9549ea96+, remote: e327dca35ac8
   preserving 1 for resolve of 1a
  removing 1
   1a: remote moved from 1 -> m
  updating: 1a 1/1 files (100.00%)
  picked tool 'internal:merge' for 1a (binary False symlink False)
  merging 1 and 1a to 1a
  my 1a@746e9549ea96+ other 1a@e327dca35ac8 ancestor 1@81f4b099af3d
   premerge successful
  0 files updated, 1 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  (branch merge, don't forget to commit)