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Joey Hess
8025decc7f run Preparer to get Remover and CheckPresent actions
This will allow special remotes to eg, open a http connection and reuse it,
while checking if chunks are present, or removing chunks.

S3 and WebDAV both need this to support chunks with reasonable speed.

Note that a special remote might want to cache a http connection across
multiple requests. A simple case of this is that CheckPresent is typically
called before Store or Remove. A remote using this interface can certianly
use a Preparer that eg, uses a MVar to cache a http connection.

However, it's up to the remote to then deal with things like stale or
stalled http connections when eg, doing a series of downloads from a remote
and other places. There could be long delays between calls to a remote,
which could lead to eg, http connection stalls; the machine might even
move to a new network, etc.

It might be nice to improve this interface later to allow
the simple case without needing to handle the full complex case.
One way to do it would be to have a `Transaction SpecialRemote cache`,
where SpecialRemote contains methods for Storer, Retriever, Remover, and
CheckPresent, that all expect to be passed a `cache`.
2014-08-06 14:28:36 -04:00
Joey Hess
b4cf22a388 pushed checkPresent exception handling out of Remote implementations
I tend to prefer moving toward explicit exception handling, not away from
it, but in this case, I think there are good reasons to let checkPresent
throw exceptions:

1. They can all be caught in one place (Remote.hasKey), and we know
   every possible exception is caught there now, which we didn't before.
2. It simplified the code of the Remotes. I think it makes sense for
   Remotes to be able to be implemented without needing to worry about
   catching exceptions inside them. (Mostly.)
3. Types.StoreRetrieve.Preparer can only work on things that return a
   Bool, which all the other relevant remote methods already did.
   I do not see a good way to generalize that type; my previous attempts
   failed miserably.
2014-08-06 13:45:19 -04:00
Joey Hess
f9e438c1bc factor out more ssh stuff from git remote
This has the dual benefits of making Remote.Git shorter, and letting
Remote.GCrypt use these utilities.
2013-09-24 13:37:41 -04:00