But, it's buggy: the server hangs without processing the VALIDITY,
and I can't seem to work out why. As far as I can see, storefile
is getting as far as running the validitycheck, which is supposed to
read that, but never does.
This is especially strange because what seems like the same protocol
doesn't hang when servePut runs it. This made me think that it needed
to use inAnnexWorker to be more like servePut, but that didn't help.
Another small problem with this is that it does create an empty
.git/annex/tmp/ file for the key. Since this will usually be used in
combination with servePut, that doesn't seem worth worrying about much.
This means that when the client sends a truncated data to indicate
invalidity, DATA is not passed the full expected data. That leaves the
P2P connection in a state where it cannot be reused. While so far, they
are not reused, they will be later when proxies are supported. So, have
to close the P2P connection in this situation.
Always truncate instead. The padding risked something not noticing the
content was bad and getting a file that was corrupted in a novel way
with the padding "X" at the end. A truncated file is better.
Made the data-length header required even for v0. This simplifies the
implementation, and doesn't preclude extra verification being done for
v0.
The connectionWaitVar is an ugly hack. In servePut, nothing waits
on the waitvar, and I could not find a good way to make anything wait on
it.
This came down to SendBytes waiting on the waitv. Nothing ever filled
it.
Only Annex.Proxy needs the waitv, and it handles filling it. So make it
optional.
Added v2-v0 endpoints. These are tedious, but will be needed in order to
use the HTTP protocol to proxy to repositories with older git-annex,
where git-annex-shell will be speaking an older version of the protocol.
Changed GET to use 422 when the content is not present. 404 is needed to
detect when a protocol version is not supported.
The error message is not displayed to the use, but this mirrors the
behavior when a regular get from a special remote fails. At least now
there is not a protocol error.
Now that storeKey can have a different object file passed to it, this
complication is not needed. This avoids a lot of strange situations,
and will also be needed if streaming is eventually supported.
Still needs some work.
The reason that the waitv is necessary is because without it,
runNet loops back around and reads the next protocol message. But it's
not finished reading the whole bytestring yet, and so it reads some part
of it.
Working, but lots of room for improvement...
Without streaming, so there is a delay before download begins as the
file is retreived from the special remote.
And when resuming it retrieves the whole file from the special remote
*again*.
Also, if the special remote throws an exception, currently it
shows as "protocol error".
This makes eg git-annex get default to using the cluster rather than an
arbitrary node, which is better UI.
The actual cost of accessing a proxied node vs using the cluster is
basically the same. But using the cluster allows smarter load-balancing
to be done on the cluster.
Before it was using a node that might have had a higher cost.
Also threw in a random selection from amoung the low cost nodes. Of
course this is a poor excuse for load balancing, but it's better than
nothing. Most of the time...
