I started to update this to reflect the current codebase, but then I thought (a) nobody seemed to notice that it hasn't been updated since December 2007, and (b) it will just bit-rot again, so I'm removing it.
under normal conditions, this wouldn't cause any problems, but if the shares
are really sparse (perhaps because new servers were added), then
file-modifies might stop looking too early and leave old shares in place
* remove Downloader.download_to_data/download_to_filename/download_to_filehandle
* remove download.Data/FileName/FileHandle targets
* remove filenode.download/download_to_data/download_to_filename methods
* leave Downloader.download (the whole Downloader will go away eventually)
* add util.consumer.MemoryConsumer/download_to_data, for convenience
(this is mostly used by unit tests, but it gets used by enough non-test
code to warrant putting it in allmydata.util)
* update tests
* removes about 180 lines of code. Yay negative code days!
Overall plan is to rewrite immutable/download.py and leave filenode.read() as
the sole read-side API.
* backups now share dirnodes with any previous backup, in any location,
so renames and moves are handled very efficiently
* "tahoe backup" no longer bothers reading the previous snapshot
* if you switch grids, you should delete ~/.tahoe/private/backupdb.sqlite,
to force new uploads of all files and directories
The proper hierarchy is:
IFilesystemNode
+IFileNode
++IMutableFileNode
++IImmutableFileNode
+IDirectoryNode
Also expand test_client.py (NodeMaker) to hit all IFilesystemNode types.
* stop caching most_recent_size in dirnode, rely upon backing filenode for it
* start caching most_recent_size in MutableFileNode
* return None when you don't know, not "?"
* only render None as "?" in the web "more info" page
* add get_size/get_current_size to UnknownNode
* change t=mkdir-with-children to not use multipart/form encoding. Instead,
the request body is all JSON. t=mkdir-immutable uses this format too.
* make nodemaker.create_immutable_dirnode() get convergence from SecretHolder,
but let callers override it
* raise NotDeepImmutableError instead of using assert()
* add mutable= argument to DirectoryNode.create_subdirectory(), default True
* "cap" means a python instance which encapsulates a filecap/dircap (uri.py)
* "uri" means a string with a "URI:" prefix
* FileNode instances are created with (and retain) a cap instance, and
generate uri strings on demand
* .get_cap/get_readcap/get_verifycap/get_repaircap return cap instances
* .get_uri/get_readonly_uri return uri strings
* add filenode.download_to_filename() for control.py, should find a better way
* use MutableFileNode.init_from_cap, not .init_from_uri
* directory URI instances: use get_filenode_cap, not get_filenode_uri
* update/cleanup bench_dirnode.py to match, add Makefile target to run it
This is safer: in the earlier API, an old webapi server would silently ignore
the initial children, and clients trying to set them would have to fetch the
newly-created directory to discover the incompatibility. In the new API,
clients using t=mkdir-with-children against an old webapi server will get a
clear error.
instead of creating an empty file and then adding the children later.
This should speed up mkdir(initial_children) considerably, removing two
roundtrips and an entire read-modify-write cycle, probably bringing it down
to a single roundtrip. A quick test (against the volunteergrid) suggests a
30% speedup.
test_dirnode: add new tests to enforce the restrictions that interfaces.py
claims for create_new_mutable_directory(): no UnknownNodes, metadata dicts
interfaces.py: define INodeMaker, document argument values, change
create_new_mutable_directory() to take dict-of-nodes. Change
dirnode.set_nodes() and dirnode.create_subdirectory() too.
nodemaker.py: use INodeMaker, update create_new_mutable_directory()
client.py: have create_dirnode() delegate initial_children= to nodemaker
dirnode.py (Adder): take dict-of-nodes instead of list-of-nodes, which
updates set_nodes() and create_subdirectory()
web/common.py (convert_initial_children_json): create dict-of-nodes
web/directory.py: same
web/unlinked.py: same
test_dirnode.py: update tests to match
invoked with the new MutableFileNode and is supposed to return the initial
contents. This can be used by e.g. a new dirnode which needs the filenode's
writekey to encrypt its initial children.
create_mutable_file() still accepts a bytestring too, or None for an empty
file.
