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help: internals topic for wire protocol

The Mercurial wire protocol is under-documented. This includes a lack
of source docstrings and comments as well as pages on the official
wiki.

This patch adds the beginnings of "internals" documentation on the
wire protocol.

The documentation should have nearly complete coverage on the
lower-level parts of the protocol, such as the different transport
mechanims, how commands and arguments are sent, capabilities, and,
of course, the commands themselves.

As part of writing this documentation, I discovered a number of
deficiencies in the protocol and bugs in the implementation. I've
started sending patches for some of the issues. I hope to send a lot
more.

This patch starts with the scaffolding for a new internals page.

# A minimal client for Mercurial's command server

from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function
import os
import signal
import socket
import struct
import subprocess
import sys
import time

try:
    import cStringIO as io
    stringio = io.StringIO
except ImportError:
    import io
    stringio = io.StringIO

def connectpipe(path=None):
    cmdline = ['hg', 'serve', '--cmdserver', 'pipe']
    if path:
        cmdline += ['-R', path]

    server = subprocess.Popen(cmdline, stdin=subprocess.PIPE,
                              stdout=subprocess.PIPE)

    return server

class unixconnection(object):
    def __init__(self, sockpath):
        self.sock = sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_UNIX)
        sock.connect(sockpath)
        self.stdin = sock.makefile('wb')
        self.stdout = sock.makefile('rb')

    def wait(self):
        self.stdin.close()
        self.stdout.close()
        self.sock.close()

class unixserver(object):
    def __init__(self, sockpath, logpath=None, repopath=None):
        self.sockpath = sockpath
        cmdline = ['hg', 'serve', '--cmdserver', 'unix', '-a', sockpath]
        if repopath:
            cmdline += ['-R', repopath]
        if logpath:
            stdout = open(logpath, 'a')
            stderr = subprocess.STDOUT
        else:
            stdout = stderr = None
        self.server = subprocess.Popen(cmdline, stdout=stdout, stderr=stderr)
        # wait for listen()
        while self.server.poll() is None:
            if os.path.exists(sockpath):
                break
            time.sleep(0.1)

    def connect(self):
        return unixconnection(self.sockpath)

    def shutdown(self):
        os.kill(self.server.pid, signal.SIGTERM)
        self.server.wait()

def writeblock(server, data):
    server.stdin.write(struct.pack('>I', len(data)))
    server.stdin.write(data)
    server.stdin.flush()

def readchannel(server):
    data = server.stdout.read(5)
    if not data:
        raise EOFError
    channel, length = struct.unpack('>cI', data)
    if channel in 'IL':
        return channel, length
    else:
        return channel, server.stdout.read(length)

def sep(text):
    return text.replace('\\', '/')

def runcommand(server, args, output=sys.stdout, error=sys.stderr, input=None,
               outfilter=lambda x: x):
    print('*** runcommand', ' '.join(args))
    sys.stdout.flush()
    server.stdin.write('runcommand\n')
    writeblock(server, '\0'.join(args))

    if not input:
        input = stringio()

    while True:
        ch, data = readchannel(server)
        if ch == 'o':
            output.write(outfilter(data))
            output.flush()
        elif ch == 'e':
            error.write(data)
            error.flush()
        elif ch == 'I':
            writeblock(server, input.read(data))
        elif ch == 'L':
            writeblock(server, input.readline(data))
        elif ch == 'r':
            ret, = struct.unpack('>i', data)
            if ret != 0:
                print(' [%d]' % ret)
            return ret
        else:
            print("unexpected channel %c: %r" % (ch, data))
            if ch.isupper():
                return

def check(func, connect=connectpipe):
    sys.stdout.flush()
    server = connect()
    try:
        return func(server)
    finally:
        server.stdin.close()
        server.wait()