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wireproto: define and implement protocol for issuing requests The existing HTTP and SSH wire protocols suffer from a host of flaws and shortcomings. I've been wanting to rewrite the protocol for a while now. Supporting partial clone - which will require new wire protocol commands and capabilities - and other advanced server functionality will be much easier if we start from a clean slate and don't have to be constrained by limitations of the existing wire protocol. This commit starts to introduce a new data exchange format for use over the wire protocol. The new protocol is built on top of "frames," which are atomic units of metadata + data. Frames will make it easier to implement proxies and other mechanisms that want to inspect data without having to maintain state. The existing frame metadata is very minimal and it will evolve heavily. (We will eventually support things like concurrent requests, out-of-order responses, compression, side-channels for status updates, etc. Some of these will require additions to the frame header.) Another benefit of frames is that all reads are of a fixed size. A reader works by consuming a frame header, extracting the payload length, then reading that many bytes. No lookahead, buffering, or memory reallocations are needed. The new protocol attempts to be transport agnostic. I want all that's required to use the new protocol to be a pair of unidirectional, half-duplex pipes. (Yes, we will eventually make use of full-duplex pipes, but that's for another commit.) Notably, when the SSH transport switches to this new protocol, stderr will be unused. This is by design: the lack of stderr on HTTP harms protocol behavior there. By shoehorning everything into a pair of pipes, we can have more consistent behavior across transports. We currently only define the client side parts of the new protocol, specifically the bits for requesting that a command run. This keeps the new code and feature small and somewhat easy to review. We add support to `hg debugwireproto` for writing frames into HTTP request bodies. Our tests that issue commands to the new HTTP endpoint have been updated to transmit frames. The server bits haven't been touched to consume the frames yet. This will occur in the next commit... Astute readers may notice that the command name is transmitted in both the HTTP request URL and the command request frame. This is partially a kludge from me initially implementing the frame-based protocol for SSH first. But it is also a feature: I intend to eventually support issuing multiple commands per HTTP request. This will allow us to replace the abomination that is the "batch" wire protocol command with a protocol-level mechanism for performing multi-dispatch. Because I want the frame-based protocol to be as similar as possible across transports, I'd rather we (redundantly) include the command name in the frame than differ behavior between transports that have out-of-band routing information (like HTTP) readily available. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2851

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# policy.py - module policy logic for Mercurial.
#
# Copyright 2015 Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com>
#
# 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
import os
import sys
# Rules for how modules can be loaded. Values are:
#
# c - require C extensions
# allow - allow pure Python implementation when C loading fails
# cffi - required cffi versions (implemented within pure module)
# cffi-allow - allow pure Python implementation if cffi version is missing
# py - only load pure Python modules
#
# By default, fall back to the pure modules so the in-place build can
# run without recompiling the C extensions. This will be overridden by
# __modulepolicy__ generated by setup.py.
policy = b'allow'
_packageprefs = {
# policy: (versioned package, pure package)
b'c': (r'cext', None),
b'allow': (r'cext', r'pure'),
b'cffi': (r'cffi', None),
b'cffi-allow': (r'cffi', r'pure'),
b'py': (None, r'pure'),
}
try:
from . import __modulepolicy__
policy = __modulepolicy__.modulepolicy
except ImportError:
pass
# PyPy doesn't load C extensions.
#
# The canonical way to do this is to test platform.python_implementation().
# But we don't import platform and don't bloat for it here.
if r'__pypy__' in sys.builtin_module_names:
policy = b'cffi'
# Environment variable can always force settings.
if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
if r'HGMODULEPOLICY' in os.environ:
policy = os.environ[r'HGMODULEPOLICY'].encode(r'utf-8')
else:
policy = os.environ.get(r'HGMODULEPOLICY', policy)
def _importfrom(pkgname, modname):
# from .<pkgname> import <modname> (where . is looked through this module)
fakelocals = {}
pkg = __import__(pkgname, globals(), fakelocals, [modname], level=1)
try:
fakelocals[modname] = mod = getattr(pkg, modname)
except AttributeError:
raise ImportError(r'cannot import name %s' % modname)
# force import; fakelocals[modname] may be replaced with the real module
getattr(mod, r'__doc__', None)
return fakelocals[modname]
# keep in sync with "version" in C modules
_cextversions = {
(r'cext', r'base85'): 1,
(r'cext', r'bdiff'): 3,
(r'cext', r'diffhelpers'): 1,
(r'cext', r'mpatch'): 1,
(r'cext', r'osutil'): 4,
(r'cext', r'parsers'): 4,
}
# map import request to other package or module
_modredirects = {
(r'cext', r'charencode'): (r'cext', r'parsers'),
(r'cffi', r'base85'): (r'pure', r'base85'),
(r'cffi', r'charencode'): (r'pure', r'charencode'),
(r'cffi', r'diffhelpers'): (r'pure', r'diffhelpers'),
(r'cffi', r'parsers'): (r'pure', r'parsers'),
}
def _checkmod(pkgname, modname, mod):
expected = _cextversions.get((pkgname, modname))
actual = getattr(mod, r'version', None)
if actual != expected:
raise ImportError(r'cannot import module %s.%s '
r'(expected version: %d, actual: %r)'
% (pkgname, modname, expected, actual))
def importmod(modname):
"""Import module according to policy and check API version"""
try:
verpkg, purepkg = _packageprefs[policy]
except KeyError:
raise ImportError(r'invalid HGMODULEPOLICY %r' % policy)
assert verpkg or purepkg
if verpkg:
pn, mn = _modredirects.get((verpkg, modname), (verpkg, modname))
try:
mod = _importfrom(pn, mn)
if pn == verpkg:
_checkmod(pn, mn, mod)
return mod
except ImportError:
if not purepkg:
raise
pn, mn = _modredirects.get((purepkg, modname), (purepkg, modname))
return _importfrom(pn, mn)