git-annex/Backend/URL.hs

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{- git-annex "URL" backend -- keys whose content is available from urls.
-
- Copyright 2011 Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
-
- Licensed under the GNU GPL version 3 or higher.
-}
module Backend.URL (
backends,
fromUrl
) where
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import Common.Annex
import Types.Backend
import Types.Key
Better sanitization of problem characters when generating URL and WORM keys. FAT has a lot of characters it does not allow in filenames, like ? and * It's probably the worst offender, but other filesystems also have limitiations. In 2011, I made keyFile escape : to handle FAT, but missed the other characters. It also turns out that when I did that, I was also living dangerously; any existing keys that contained a : had their object location change. Oops. So, adding new characters to escape to keyFile is out. Well, it would be possible to make keyFile behave differently on a per-filesystem basis, but this would be a real nightmare to get right. Consider that a rsync special remote uses keyFile to determine the filenames to use, and we don't know the underlying filesystem on the rsync server.. Instead, I have gone for a solution that is backwards compatable and simple. Its only downside is that already generated URL and WORM keys might not be able to be stored on FAT or some other filesystem that dislikes a character used in the key. (In this case, the user can just migrate the problem keys to a checksumming backend. If this became a big problem, fsck could be made to detect these and suggest a migration.) Going forward, new keys that are created will escape all characters that are likely to cause problems. And if some filesystem comes along that's even worse than FAT (seems unlikely, but here it is 2013, and people are still using FAT!), additional characters can be added to the set that are escaped without difficulty. (Also, made WORM limit the part of the filename that is embedded in the key, to deal with filesystem filename length limits. This could have already been a problem, but is more likely now, since the escaping of the filename can make it longer.) This commit was sponsored by Ian Downes
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import Backend.Utilities
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backends :: [Backend]
backends = [backend]
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backend :: Backend
backend = Backend
{ name = "URL"
, getKey = const $ return Nothing
, fsckKey = Nothing
, canUpgradeKey = Nothing
, fastMigrate = Nothing
-- The content of an url can change at any time, so URL keys are
-- not stable.
, isStableKey = const False
}
Better sanitization of problem characters when generating URL and WORM keys. FAT has a lot of characters it does not allow in filenames, like ? and * It's probably the worst offender, but other filesystems also have limitiations. In 2011, I made keyFile escape : to handle FAT, but missed the other characters. It also turns out that when I did that, I was also living dangerously; any existing keys that contained a : had their object location change. Oops. So, adding new characters to escape to keyFile is out. Well, it would be possible to make keyFile behave differently on a per-filesystem basis, but this would be a real nightmare to get right. Consider that a rsync special remote uses keyFile to determine the filenames to use, and we don't know the underlying filesystem on the rsync server.. Instead, I have gone for a solution that is backwards compatable and simple. Its only downside is that already generated URL and WORM keys might not be able to be stored on FAT or some other filesystem that dislikes a character used in the key. (In this case, the user can just migrate the problem keys to a checksumming backend. If this became a big problem, fsck could be made to detect these and suggest a migration.) Going forward, new keys that are created will escape all characters that are likely to cause problems. And if some filesystem comes along that's even worse than FAT (seems unlikely, but here it is 2013, and people are still using FAT!), additional characters can be added to the set that are escaped without difficulty. (Also, made WORM limit the part of the filename that is embedded in the key, to deal with filesystem filename length limits. This could have already been a problem, but is more likely now, since the escaping of the filename can make it longer.) This commit was sponsored by Ian Downes
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{- Every unique url has a corresponding key. -}
Fix a few bugs involving filenames that are at or near the filesystem's maximum filename length limit. Started with a problem when running addurl on a really long url, because the whole url is munged into the filename. Ended up doing a fairly extensive review for places where filenames could get too large, although it's hard to say I'm not missed any.. Backend.Url had a 128 character limit, which is fine when the limit is 255, but not if it's a lot shorter on some systems. So check the pathconf() limit. Note that this could result in fromUrl creating different keys for the same url, if run on systems with different limits. I don't see this is likely to cause any problems. That can already happen when using addurl --fast, or if the content of an url changes. Both Command.AddUrl and Backend.Url assumed that urls don't contain a lot of multi-byte unicode, and would fail to truncate an url that did properly. A few places use a filename as the template to make a temp file. While that's nice in that the temp file name can be easily related back to the original filename, it could lead to `git annex add` failing to add a filename that was at or close to the maximum length. Note that in Command.Add.lockdown, the template is still derived from the filename, just with enough space left to turn it into a temp file. This is an important optimisation, because the assistant may lock down a bunch of files all at once, and using the same template for all of them would cause openTempFile to iterate through the same set of names, looking for an unused temp file. I'm not very happy with the relatedTemplate hack, but it avoids that slowdown. Backend.WORM does not limit the filename stored in the key. I have not tried to change that; so git annex add will fail on really long filenames when using the WORM backend. It seems better to preserve the invariant that a WORM key always contains the complete filename, since the filename is the only unique material in the key, other than mtime and size. Since nobody has complained about add failing (I think I saw it once?) on WORM, probably it's ok, or nobody but me uses it. There may be compatability problems if using git annex addurl --fast or the WORM backend on a system with the 255 limit and then trying to use that repo in a system with a smaller limit. I have not tried to deal with those. This commit was sponsored by Alexander Brem. Thanks!
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fromUrl :: String -> Maybe Integer -> Annex Key
fromUrl url size = return $ stubKey
{ keyName = genKeyName url
, keyBackendName = "URL"
, keySize = size
}