annotate tests/test-obsolete-tag-cache.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).

  $ cat >> $HGRCPATH << EOF
  > [extensions]
  > rebase=
  > 
  > [experimental]
  > evolution = createmarkers
  > EOF

Create a repo with some tags

  $ hg init repo
  $ cd repo
  $ echo initial > foo
  $ hg -q commit -A -m initial
  $ hg tag -m 'test tag' test1
  $ echo first > first
  $ hg -q commit -A -m first
  $ hg tag -m 'test2 tag' test2
  $ hg -q up -r 0
  $ echo newhead > newhead
  $ hg commit -A -m newhead
  adding newhead
  created new head

Trigger tags cache population by doing something that accesses tags info

  $ hg log -G -T '{rev}:{node|short} {tags} {desc}\n'
  @  4:042eb6bfcc49 tip newhead
  |
  | o  3:c3cb30f2d2cd  test2 tag
  | |
  | o  2:d75775ffbc6b test2 first
  | |
  | o  1:5f97d42da03f  test tag
  |/
  o  0:55482a6fb4b1 test1 initial
  

  $ cat .hg/cache/tags
  4 042eb6bfcc4909bad84a1cbf6eb1ddf0ab587d41
  3 c3cb30f2d2cd0aae008cc91a07876e3c5131fd22 b3bce87817fe7ac9dca2834366c1d7534c095cf1
  
  55482a6fb4b1881fa8f746fd52cf6f096bb21c89 test1
  d75775ffbc6bca1794d300f5571272879bd280da test2

Create some hidden changesets via a rebase and trigger tags cache
repopulation

  $ hg -q rebase -s 1 -d 4
  $ hg log -G -T '{rev}:{node|short} {tags} {desc}\n'
  o  7:eb610439e10e tip test2 tag
  |
  o  6:7b4af00c3c83  first
  |
  o  5:43ac2a539b3c  test tag
  |
  @  4:042eb6bfcc49  newhead
  |
  o  0:55482a6fb4b1 test1 initial
  

.hgtags filenodes for hidden heads should be visible (issue4550)
(currently broken)

  $ cat .hg/cache/tags
  7 eb610439e10e0c6b296f97b59624c2e24fc59e30 b3bce87817fe7ac9dca2834366c1d7534c095cf1
  
  55482a6fb4b1881fa8f746fd52cf6f096bb21c89 test1
  d75775ffbc6bca1794d300f5571272879bd280da test2