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wireproto: support /api/* URL space for exposing APIs I will soon be introducing a new version of the HTTP wire protocol. One of the things I want to change with it is the URL routing. I want to rely on URL paths to define endpoints rather than the "cmd" query string argument. That should be pretty straightforward. I was thinking about what URL space to reserve for the new protocol. We /could/ put everything at a top-level path. e.g. /wireproto/* or /http-v2-wireproto/*. However, these constrain us a bit because they assume there will only be 1 API: version 2 of the HTTP wire protocol. I think there is room to grow multiple APIs. For example, there may someday be a proper JSON API to query or even manipulate the repository. And I don't think we should have to create a new top-level URL space for each API nor should we attempt to shoehorn each future API into the same shared URL space: that would just be too chaotic. This commits reserves the /api/* URL space for all our future API needs. Essentially, all requests to /api/* get routed to a new WSGI handler. By default, it 404's the entire URL space unless the "api server" feature is enabled. When enabled, requests to "/api" list available APIs. URLs of the form /api/<name>/* are reserved for a particular named API. Behavior within each API is left up to that API. So, we can grow new APIs easily without worrying about URL space conflicts. APIs can be registered by adding entries to a global dict. This allows extensions to provide their own APIs should they choose to do so. This is probably a premature feature. But IMO the code is easier to read if we're not dealing with API-specific behavior like config option querying inline. To prove it works, we implement a very basic API for version 2 of the HTTP wire protocol. It does nothing of value except facilitate testing of the /api/* URL space. We currently emit plain text responses for all /api/* endpoints. There's definitely room to look at Accept and other request headers to vary the response format. But we have to start somewhere. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2834

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Mercurial has the ability to add new features through the use of
extensions. Extensions may add new commands, add options to
existing commands, change the default behavior of commands, or
implement hooks.
To enable the "foo" extension, either shipped with Mercurial or in the
Python search path, create an entry for it in your configuration file,
like this::
[extensions]
foo =
You may also specify the full path to an extension::
[extensions]
myfeature = ~/.hgext/myfeature.py
See :hg:`help config` for more information on configuration files.
Extensions are not loaded by default for a variety of reasons:
they can increase startup overhead; they may be meant for advanced
usage only; they may provide potentially dangerous abilities (such
as letting you destroy or modify history); they might not be ready
for prime time; or they may alter some usual behaviors of stock
Mercurial. It is thus up to the user to activate extensions as
needed.
To explicitly disable an extension enabled in a configuration file of
broader scope, prepend its path with !::
[extensions]
# disabling extension bar residing in /path/to/extension/bar.py
bar = !/path/to/extension/bar.py
# ditto, but no path was supplied for extension baz
baz = !