annotate tests/generate-working-copy-states.py @ 37048:fc5e261915b9

wireproto: require POST for all HTTPv2 requests

Wire protocol version 1 transfers argument data via request
headers by default. This has historically caused problems because
servers institute limits on the length of individual HTTP headers
as well as the total size of all request headers. Mercurial servers
can advertise the maximum length of an individual header. But
there's no guarantee any intermediate HTTP agents will accept
headers up to that length.

In the existing wire protocol, server operators typically also
key off the HTTP request method to implement authentication.
For example, GET requests translate to read-only requests and
can be allowed. But read-write commands must use POST and require
authentication. This has typically worked because the only wire
protocol commands that use POST modify the repo (e.g. the
"unbundle" command).

There is an experimental feature to enable clients to transmit
argument data via POST request bodies. This is technically a
better and more robust solution. But we can't enable it by default
because of servers assuming POST means write access.

In version 2 of the wire protocol, the permissions of a request
are encoded in the URL. And with it being a new protocol in a new
URL space, we're not constrained by backwards compatibility
requirements.

This commit adopts the technically superior mechanism of using
HTTP request bodies to send argument data by requiring POST for
all commands. Strictly speaking, it may be possible to send
request bodies on GET requests. But my experience is that not all
HTTP stacks support this. POST pretty much always works. Using POST
for read-only operations does sacrifice some RESTful design
purity. But this API cares about practicality, not about being
in Roy T. Fielding's REST ivory tower.

There's a chance we may relax this restriction in the future. But
for now, I want to see how far we can get with a POST only API.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2837

# Helper script used for generating history and working copy files and content.
# The file's name corresponds to its history. The number of changesets can
# be specified on the command line. With 2 changesets, files with names like
# content1_content2_content1-untracked are generated. The first two filename
# segments describe the contents in the two changesets. The third segment
# ("content1-untracked") describes the state in the working copy, i.e.
# the file has content "content1" and is untracked (since it was previously
# tracked, it has been forgotten).
#
# This script generates the filenames and their content, but it's up to the
# caller to tell hg about the state.
#
# There are two subcommands:
#   filelist <numchangesets>
#   state <numchangesets> (<changeset>|wc)
#
# Typical usage:
#
# $ python $TESTDIR/generate-working-copy-states.py state 2 1
# $ hg addremove --similarity 0
# $ hg commit -m 'first'
#
# $ python $TESTDIR/generate-working-copy-states.py state 2 1
# $ hg addremove --similarity 0
# $ hg commit -m 'second'
#
# $ python $TESTDIR/generate-working-copy-states.py state 2 wc
# $ hg addremove --similarity 0
# $ hg forget *_*_*-untracked
# $ rm *_*_missing-*

from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function

import os
import sys

# Generates pairs of (filename, contents), where 'contents' is a list
# describing the file's content at each revision (or in the working copy).
# At each revision, it is either None or the file's actual content. When not
# None, it may be either new content or the same content as an earlier
# revisions, so all of (modified,clean,added,removed) can be tested.
def generatestates(maxchangesets, parentcontents):
    depth = len(parentcontents)
    if depth == maxchangesets + 1:
        for tracked in (b'untracked', b'tracked'):
            filename = b"_".join([(content is None and b'missing' or content)
                                for content in parentcontents]) + b"-" + tracked
            yield (filename, parentcontents)
    else:
        for content in ({None, b'content' + (b"%d" % (depth + 1))} |
                      set(parentcontents)):
            for combination in generatestates(maxchangesets,
                                              parentcontents + [content]):
                yield combination

# retrieve the command line arguments
target = sys.argv[1]
maxchangesets = int(sys.argv[2])
if target == 'state':
    depth = sys.argv[3]

# sort to make sure we have stable output
combinations = sorted(generatestates(maxchangesets, []))

# compute file content
content = []
for filename, states in combinations:
    if target == 'filelist':
        print(filename.decode('ascii'))
    elif target == 'state':
        if depth == 'wc':
            # Make sure there is content so the file gets written and can be
            # tracked. It will be deleted outside of this script.
            content.append((filename, states[maxchangesets] or b'TOBEDELETED'))
        else:
            content.append((filename, states[int(depth) - 1]))
    else:
        print("unknown target:", target, file=sys.stderr)
        sys.exit(1)

# write actual content
for filename, data in content:
    if data is not None:
        f = open(filename, 'wb')
        f.write(data + b'\n')
        f.close()
    elif os.path.exists(filename):
        os.remove(filename)