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hgweb: refactor fake file object proxy for archiving Python's zip file writer operates on a file object. When doing work, it periodically calls write(), flush(), and tell() on that object. In WSGI contexts, the start_response function returns a write() function. That's a function to write data, not a full file object. So, when the archival code was first introduced in 2b03c6733efa in 2006, someone invented a proxy "tellable" type that wrapped a file object like object and kept track of write count so it could implement tell() and satisfy zipfile's needs. When our archival code runs, it attempts to tell() the destination and if that fails, converts it to a "tellable" instance. Our WSGI application passes the "wsgirequest" instance to the archival function. It fails the tell() test and is converted to a "tellable." It's worth noting that "wsgirequest" implements flush(), so "tellable" doesn't. This hackery all seems very specific to the WSGI code. So this commit moves the "tellable" type and the conversion of the destination file object into the WSGI code. There's a chance some other caller may be passing a file object like object that doesn't implement tell(). But I doubt it. As part of the refactor, our new type implements flush() and doesn't implement __getattr__. Given the intended limited use of this type, I want things to fail fast if there is an attempt to access attributes because I think it is important to document which attributes are being used for what purposes. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2791
author Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com>
date Sat, 10 Mar 2018 16:17:51 -0800
parents 89c81739ffa7
children 521f6c7e1756
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