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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

# test-batching.py - tests for transparent command batching
#
# Copyright 2011 Peter Arrenbrecht <[e-mail]>
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.

from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function

from mercurial import (
    error,
    peer,
    util,
    wireproto,
)

# equivalent of repo.repository
class thing(object):
    def hello(self):
        return "Ready."

# equivalent of localrepo.localrepository
class localthing(thing):
    def foo(self, one, two=None):
        if one:
            return "%s and %s" % (one, two,)
        return "Nope"
    def bar(self, b, a):
        return "%s und %s" % (b, a,)
    def greet(self, name=None):
        return "Hello, %s" % name
    def batchiter(self):
        '''Support for local batching.'''
        return peer.localiterbatcher(self)

# usage of "thing" interface
def use(it):

    # Direct call to base method shared between client and server.
    print(it.hello())

    # Direct calls to proxied methods. They cause individual roundtrips.
    print(it.foo("Un", two="Deux"))
    print(it.bar("Eins", "Zwei"))

    # Batched call to a couple of proxied methods.
    batch = it.batchiter()
    # The calls return futures to eventually hold results.
    foo = batch.foo(one="One", two="Two")
    bar = batch.bar("Eins", "Zwei")
    bar2 = batch.bar(b="Uno", a="Due")

    # Future shouldn't be set until we submit().
    assert isinstance(foo, peer.future)
    assert not util.safehasattr(foo, 'value')
    assert not util.safehasattr(bar, 'value')
    batch.submit()
    # Call results() to obtain results as a generator.
    results = batch.results()

    # Future results shouldn't be set until we consume a value.
    assert not util.safehasattr(foo, 'value')
    foovalue = next(results)
    assert util.safehasattr(foo, 'value')
    assert foovalue == foo.value
    print(foo.value)
    next(results)
    print(bar.value)
    next(results)
    print(bar2.value)

    # We should be at the end of the results generator.
    try:
        next(results)
    except StopIteration:
        print('proper end of results generator')
    else:
        print('extra emitted element!')

    # Attempting to call a non-batchable method inside a batch fails.
    batch = it.batchiter()
    try:
        batch.greet(name='John Smith')
    except error.ProgrammingError as e:
        print(e)

    # Attempting to call a local method inside a batch fails.
    batch = it.batchiter()
    try:
        batch.hello()
    except error.ProgrammingError as e:
        print(e)

# local usage
mylocal = localthing()
print()
print("== Local")
use(mylocal)

# demo remoting; mimicks what wireproto and HTTP/SSH do

# shared

def escapearg(plain):
    return (plain
            .replace(':', '::')
            .replace(',', ':,')
            .replace(';', ':;')
            .replace('=', ':='))
def unescapearg(escaped):
    return (escaped
            .replace(':=', '=')
            .replace(':;', ';')
            .replace(':,', ',')
            .replace('::', ':'))

# server side

# equivalent of wireproto's global functions
class server(object):
    def __init__(self, local):
        self.local = local
    def _call(self, name, args):
        args = dict(arg.split('=', 1) for arg in args)
        return getattr(self, name)(**args)
    def perform(self, req):
        print("REQ:", req)
        name, args = req.split('?', 1)
        args = args.split('&')
        vals = dict(arg.split('=', 1) for arg in args)
        res = getattr(self, name)(**vals)
        print("  ->", res)
        return res
    def batch(self, cmds):
        res = []
        for pair in cmds.split(';'):
            name, args = pair.split(':', 1)
            vals = {}
            for a in args.split(','):
                if a:
                    n, v = a.split('=')
                    vals[n] = unescapearg(v)
            res.append(escapearg(getattr(self, name)(**vals)))
        return ';'.join(res)
    def foo(self, one, two):
        return mangle(self.local.foo(unmangle(one), unmangle(two)))
    def bar(self, b, a):
        return mangle(self.local.bar(unmangle(b), unmangle(a)))
    def greet(self, name):
        return mangle(self.local.greet(unmangle(name)))
myserver = server(mylocal)

# local side

# equivalent of wireproto.encode/decodelist, that is, type-specific marshalling
# here we just transform the strings a bit to check we're properly en-/decoding
def mangle(s):
    return ''.join(chr(ord(c) + 1) for c in s)
def unmangle(s):
    return ''.join(chr(ord(c) - 1) for c in s)

# equivalent of wireproto.wirerepository and something like http's wire format
class remotething(thing):
    def __init__(self, server):
        self.server = server
    def _submitone(self, name, args):
        req = name + '?' + '&'.join(['%s=%s' % (n, v) for n, v in args])
        return self.server.perform(req)
    def _submitbatch(self, cmds):
        req = []
        for name, args in cmds:
            args = ','.join(n + '=' + escapearg(v) for n, v in args)
            req.append(name + ':' + args)
        req = ';'.join(req)
        res = self._submitone('batch', [('cmds', req,)])
        for r in res.split(';'):
            yield r

    def batchiter(self):
        return wireproto.remoteiterbatcher(self)

    @peer.batchable
    def foo(self, one, two=None):
        encargs = [('one', mangle(one),), ('two', mangle(two),)]
        encresref = peer.future()
        yield encargs, encresref
        yield unmangle(encresref.value)

    @peer.batchable
    def bar(self, b, a):
        encresref = peer.future()
        yield [('b', mangle(b),), ('a', mangle(a),)], encresref
        yield unmangle(encresref.value)

    # greet is coded directly. It therefore does not support batching. If it
    # does appear in a batch, the batch is split around greet, and the call to
    # greet is done in its own roundtrip.
    def greet(self, name=None):
        return unmangle(self._submitone('greet', [('name', mangle(name),)]))

# demo remote usage

myproxy = remotething(myserver)
print()
print("== Remote")
use(myproxy)