wireproto: correctly escape batched args and responses (issue4739)
This issue appears to be as old as wireproto batching itself: I can
reproduce the failure as far back as 08ef6b5f3715 trivially by
rebasing the test changes in this patch, which was back in the 1.9
era. I didn't test before that change, because prior to that the
testfile has a different name and I'm lazy.
Note that the test thought it was checking this case, but it actually
wasn't: it put a literal ; in the arg and response for its greet
command, but the mangle/unmangle step defined in the test meant that
instead of "Fo, =;o" going over the wire, "Gp-!><p" went instead,
which doesn't contain any special characters (those being [.=;]) and
thus not exercising the escaping. The test has been updated to use
pre-unmangled special characters, so the request is now "Fo+<:o",
which mangles to "Gp,=;p". I have confirmed that the test fails
without the adjustment to the escaping rules in wireproto.py.
No existing clients of RPC batching were depending on the old behavior
in any way. The only *actual* users of batchable RPCs in core were:
1) largefiles, wherein it batches up many statlfile calls. It sends
hexlified hashes over the wire and gets a 0, 1, or 2 back as a
response. No risk of special characters.
2) setdiscovery, which was using heads() and known(), both of which
communicate via hexlified nodes. Again, no risk of special characters.
Since the escaping functionality has been completely broken since it
was introduced, we know that it has no users. As such, we can change
the escaping mechanism without having to worry about backwards
compatibility issues.
For the curious, this was detected by chance: it happens that the
lz4-compressed text of a test file for remotefilelog compressed to
something containing a ;, which then caused the failure when I moved
remotefilelog to using batching for file content fetching.
http://mercurial.selenic.com/bts/issue1306
Initialize remote repo with branches:
$ hg init remote
$ cd remote
$ echo a > a
$ hg ci -Ama
adding a
$ hg branch br
marked working directory as branch br
(branches are permanent and global, did you want a bookmark?)
$ hg ci -Amb
$ echo c > c
$ hg ci -Amc
adding c
$ hg log
changeset: 2:ae3d9c30ec50
branch: br
tag: tip
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: c
changeset: 1:3f7f930ca414
branch: br
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: b
changeset: 0:cb9a9f314b8b
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: a
$ cd ..
Try cloning -r branch:
$ hg clone -rbr remote local1
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 3 changesets with 2 changes to 2 files
updating to branch br
2 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg -R local1 parents
changeset: 2:ae3d9c30ec50
branch: br
tag: tip
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: c
Try cloning -rother clone#branch:
$ hg clone -r0 remote#br local2
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 3 changesets with 2 changes to 2 files
updating to branch default
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg -R local2 parents
changeset: 0:cb9a9f314b8b
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: a
Try cloning -r1 clone#branch:
$ hg clone -r1 remote#br local3
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 3 changesets with 2 changes to 2 files
updating to branch br
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg -R local3 parents
changeset: 1:3f7f930ca414
branch: br
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: b