On 7/21/2014 6:21 PM, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> Tanay Abhra <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> [PATCH v3]: Most of Eric's suggestions has been implemented. See [2] for
>> discussion.
>> Also, new helpers introduced in v7 of the config-set API series have
>> been used.
>> See [1] for the documentation of the new functions.
>>
>> This series builds on the top of 5def4132 in pu or topic[1] in the mailing
>> list
>> with name "git config cache & special querying API utilizing the cache".
>
> It's now called ta/config-set (see last "What's cooking in git.git").
>
Noted. More below.
>> All patches pass every test, but there is a catch, there is slight behaviour
>> change in most of them where originally the callback returns
>> config_error_nonbool() when it sees a NULL value for a key causing a die
>> specified in git_parse_source in config.c.
>>
>> The die also prints the file name and the line number as,
>>
>> "die("bad config file line %d in %s", cf->linenr, cf->name);"
>>
>> We lose the fine grained error checking when switching to this method.
>
> I think a first step would be something like this:
>
> --- a/config.c
> +++ b/config.c
> @@ -656,6 +656,15 @@ int git_config_string(const char **dest, const char
> *var, const char *value)
> return 0;
> }
>
> +// TODO: either make it static or export it properly
> +int git_config_string_or_die(const char **dest, const char *var, const char
> *value)
> +{
> + if (git_config_string(dest, var, value) < 0)
> + die("bad config file (TODO: file/line info)");
> + else
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> int git_config_pathname(const char **dest, const char *var, const char
> *value)
> {
> if (!value)
> @@ -1336,7 +1345,7 @@ int git_configset_get_string(struct config_set *cs,
> const char *key, const char
> {
> const char *value;
> if (!git_configset_get_value(cs, key, &value))
> - return git_config_string(dest, key, value);
> + return git_config_string_or_die(dest, key, value);
> else
> return 1;
> }
>
> In the original API, git_config_string was called at parsing time, hence
> the file/line information was available through "cf". Here, we're
> querying the cache which doesn't have this information yet.
>
> I initially thought that managing properly file/line information would
> be just an addition, but this example shows that it is actually needed
> to be feature-complete wrt the old API. And I think we should be
> feature-complete (i.e. make the code cleaner without harming the user).
>
> So, I think it now makes sense to resurect your "file line info" patch:
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/253123
>
> Now that the series is properly reviewed, avoid modifying existing
> patches as much as possible, and add these file/line info on top of the
> existing.
>
> I think you need to:
>
> 1) Modify the hashmap data structure and the code that fills it in to
> store the file/line info (already done in your previous WIP patch).
>
> 2) Add a by-address parameter to git_configset_get_value that allows the
> user to get the file and line information. In your previous patch,
> that would mean returning a pointer to the corresponding struct
> key_source.
Will this extra complexity be good for "git_configset_get_value"?
Instead can we provide a function like die_config(char *key)
which prints
die("bad config file line %d in %s", linenr, filename);?
A variation would be die_config_multi(char *key, char *value)
for multi valued keys.
> 3) Pass this information to git_config_string_or_die, and die with the
> right message (with a helper like die_config(struct key_source *ks)
> that takes care of the formatting)
No need for passing if we use the above method. We will just call die_config()
inside it for NULL values
> 4) apply the same to git_config_get_<other than string>.
>
> I'd actually add a step 0) before that: add a test that checks your
> behavior change. The test should pass without your patches, and fail
> with your current patch. Then, it should pass again once you completed
> the work.
>
Noted, I will add it.
> On a side note, re-reading your previous patch, I found this which
> sounds suspicious:
>
> + struct config_hash_entry *e;
> + struct string_list_item *si;
> + struct key_source *ks = xmalloc(sizeof(*e));
>
> Didn't you mean xmalloc(sizeof(*ks))?
>
Yikes, Thanks.
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