view tests/test-check-interfaces.py @ 36426:23d12524a202

http: drop custom http client logic

Eight and a half years ago, as my starter bug on code.google.com, I
investigated a mysterious "broken pipe" error from seemingly random
clients[0]. That investigation revealed a tragic story: the Python
standard library's httplib was (and remains) barely functional. During
large POSTs, if a server responds early with an error (even a
permission denied error!) the client only notices that the server
closed the connection and everything breaks. Such server behavior is
implicitly legal under RFC 2616 (the latest HTTP RFC as of when I was
last working on this), and my understanding is that later RFCs have
made it explicitly legal to respond early with any status code outside
the 2xx range.

I embarked, probably foolishly, on a journey to write a new http
library with better overall behavior. The http library appears to work
well in most cases, but it can get confused in the presence of
proxies, and it depends on select(2) which limits its utility if a lot
of file descriptors are open. I haven't touched the http library in
almost two years, and in the interim the Python community has
discovered a better way[1] of writing network code. In theory some day
urllib3 will have its own home-grown http library built on h11[2], or
we could do that. Either way, it's time to declare our current
confusingly-named "http2" client logic and move on. I do hope to
revisit this some day: it's still garbage that we can't even respond
with a 401 or 403 without reading the entire POST body from the
client, but the goalposts on writing a new http client library have
moved substantially. We're almost certainly better off just switching
to requests and eventually picking up their http fixes than trying to
live with something that realistically only we'll ever use. Another
approach would be to write an adapter so that Mercurial can use pycurl
if it's installed. Neither of those approaches seem like they should
be investigated prior to a release of Mercurial that works on Python
3: that's where the mindshare is going to be for any improvements to
the state of the http client art.

0: http://web.archive.org/web/20130501031801/http://code.google.com/p/support/issues/detail?id=2716
1: http://sans-io.readthedocs.io/
2: https://github.com/njsmith/h11

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2444

# Test that certain objects conform to well-defined interfaces.

from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function

from mercurial import (
    bundlerepo,
    httppeer,
    localrepo,
    sshpeer,
    statichttprepo,
    ui as uimod,
    unionrepo,
)

def checkobject(o):
    """Verify a constructed object conforms to interface rules.

    An object must have __abstractmethods__ defined.

    All "public" attributes of the object (attributes not prefixed with
    an underscore) must be in __abstractmethods__ or appear on a base class
    with __abstractmethods__.
    """
    name = o.__class__.__name__

    allowed = set()
    for cls in o.__class__.__mro__:
        if not getattr(cls, '__abstractmethods__', set()):
            continue

        allowed |= cls.__abstractmethods__
        allowed |= {a for a in dir(cls) if not a.startswith('_')}

    if not allowed:
        print('%s does not have abstract methods' % name)
        return

    public = {a for a in dir(o) if not a.startswith('_')}

    for attr in sorted(public - allowed):
        print('public attributes not in abstract interface: %s.%s' % (
            name, attr))

# Facilitates testing localpeer.
class dummyrepo(object):
    def __init__(self):
        self.ui = uimod.ui()
    def filtered(self, name):
        pass
    def _restrictcapabilities(self, caps):
        pass

# Facilitates testing sshpeer without requiring an SSH server.
class badpeer(httppeer.httppeer):
    def __init__(self):
        super(badpeer, self).__init__(uimod.ui(), 'http://localhost')
        self.badattribute = True

    def badmethod(self):
        pass

class dummypipe(object):
    def close(self):
        pass

def main():
    ui = uimod.ui()

    checkobject(badpeer())
    checkobject(httppeer.httppeer(ui, 'http://localhost'))
    checkobject(localrepo.localpeer(dummyrepo()))
    checkobject(sshpeer.sshv1peer(ui, 'ssh://localhost/foo', None, dummypipe(),
                                  dummypipe(), None, None))
    checkobject(sshpeer.sshv2peer(ui, 'ssh://localhost/foo', None, dummypipe(),
                                  dummypipe(), None, None))
    checkobject(bundlerepo.bundlepeer(dummyrepo()))
    checkobject(statichttprepo.statichttppeer(dummyrepo()))
    checkobject(unionrepo.unionpeer(dummyrepo()))

main()