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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's internal web server, hgweb, can serve either a single
repository, or a tree of repositories. In the second case, repository
paths and global options can be defined using a dedicated
configuration file common to :hg:`serve`, ``hgweb.wsgi``,
``hgweb.cgi`` and ``hgweb.fcgi``.
This file uses the same syntax as other Mercurial configuration files
but recognizes only the following sections:
- web
- paths
- collections
The ``web`` options are thoroughly described in :hg:`help config`.
The ``paths`` section maps URL paths to paths of repositories in the
filesystem. hgweb will not expose the filesystem directly - only
Mercurial repositories can be published and only according to the
configuration.
The left hand side is the path in the URL. Note that hgweb reserves
subpaths like ``rev`` or ``file``, try using different names for
nested repositories to avoid confusing effects.
The right hand side is the path in the filesystem. If the specified
path ends with ``*`` or ``**`` the filesystem will be searched
recursively for repositories below that point.
With ``*`` it will not recurse into the repositories it finds (except for
``.hg/patches``).
With ``**`` it will also search inside repository working directories
and possibly find subrepositories.
In this example::
[paths]
/projects/a = /srv/tmprepos/a
/projects/b = c:/repos/b
/ = /srv/repos/*
/user/bob = /home/bob/repos/**
- The first two entries make two repositories in different directories
appear under the same directory in the web interface
- The third entry will publish every Mercurial repository found in
``/srv/repos/``, for instance the repository ``/srv/repos/quux/``
will appear as ``http://server/quux/``
- The fourth entry will publish both ``http://server/user/bob/quux/``
and ``http://server/user/bob/quux/testsubrepo/``
The ``collections`` section is deprecated and has been superseded by
``paths``.
URLs and Common Arguments
=========================
URLs under each repository have the form ``/{command}[/{arguments}]``
where ``{command}`` represents the name of a command or handler and
``{arguments}`` represents any number of additional URL parameters
to that command.
The web server has a default style associated with it. Styles map to
a collection of named templates. Each template is used to render a
specific piece of data, such as a changeset or diff.
The style for the current request can be overwritten two ways. First,
if ``{command}`` contains a hyphen (``-``), the text before the hyphen
defines the style. For example, ``/atom-log`` will render the ``log``
command handler with the ``atom`` style. The second way to set the
style is with the ``style`` query string argument. For example,
``/log?style=atom``. The hyphenated URL parameter is preferred.
Not all templates are available for all styles. Attempting to use
a style that doesn't have all templates defined may result in an error
rendering the page.
Many commands take a ``{revision}`` URL parameter. This defines the
changeset to operate on. This is commonly specified as the short,
12 digit hexadecimal abbreviation for the full 40 character unique
revision identifier. However, any value described by
:hg:`help revisions` typically works.
Commands and URLs
=================
The following web commands and their URLs are available:
.. webcommandsmarker