in trying to test my fix for the failure of the offloaded unit test on windows
(by closing the reader before unlinking the encoding file - which, perhaps
disturbingly doesn't actually make a difference in my windows environment)
I was unable too because the unit test failed every time with a connection lost
error.
after much more time than I'd like to admit it took, I eventually managed to
track that down to a part of the unit test which is supposed to be be dropping
a connection. it looks like the exceptions that get thrown on unix, or at
least all the specific environments brian tested in, for that dropped
connection are different from what is thrown on my box (which is running py2.4
and twisted 2.4.0, for reference) adding ConnectionLost to the list of
expected exceptions makes the test pass.
though curiously still my test logs a NotEnoughWritersError error, and I'm not
currently able to fathom why that exception isn't leading to any overall
failure of the unit test itself.
for general interest, a large part of the time spent trying to track this down
was lost to the state of logging. I added a whole bunch of logging to try
and track down where the tests were failing, but then spent a bunch of time
searching in vain for that log output. as far as I can tell at this point
the unit tests are themselves logging to foolscap's log module, but that isn't
being directed anywhere, so all the test's logging is being black holed.
* rename my_private_dir.cap to root_dir.cap
* move it into the private subdir
* change the cmdline argument "--root-uri=[private]" to "--dir-uri=[root]"
The underlying issue is recorded in #211: one corrupt share in a query
response will cause us to ignore the remaining shares in that response, even
if they are good. In our tests (with N=10 but only 5 peers), this can leave
us with too few shares to recover the file.
The temporary workaround is to use 10 peers, to make sure we never get
multiple shares per response. The real fix will be to fix the control flow.
This fixes#209.
* use new decentralized directories everywhere instead of old centralized directories
* provide UI to them through the web server
* provide UI to them through the CLI
* update unit tests to simulate decentralized mutable directories in order to test other components that rely on them
* remove the notion of a "vdrive server" and a client thereof
* remove the notion of a "public vdrive", which was a directory that was centrally published/subscribed automatically by the tahoe node (you can accomplish this manually by making a directory and posting the URL to it on your web site, for example)
* add a notion of "wait_for_numpeers" when you need to publish data to peers, which is how many peers should be attached before you start. The default is 1.
* add __repr__ for filesystem nodes (note: these reprs contain a few bits of the secret key!)
* fix a few bugs where we used to equate "mutable" with "not read-only". Nowadays all directories are mutable, but some might be read-only (to you).
* fix a few bugs where code wasn't aware of the new general-purpose metadata dict the comes with each filesystem edge
* sundry fixes to unit tests to adjust to the new directories, e.g. don't assume that every share on disk belongs to a chk file.
