Hi Guido! On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:19 +0100, Guido Wesdorp wrote: > I thought a bit about the authentication feature for py.path.svn*, and > wrote my ideas in a small doc. The doc is attached - please discuss if > you're interested...
nice way of doing this, thanks! > SVN authentication support > ========================== > > This document describes authentication support to both py.path.svnwc and > py.path.svnurl (yet to be implemented). This should allow using the library in > a completely automated situation, without having to provide the credentials > interactively. > > Current ideas for implementation > -------------------------------- > > The credentials are passed to the constructor of the path objects, and are > used > (transparently) for every action that accesses the server. Also, when > provided, > they are passed recursively to all child objects created by methods such as > join(), ensure(), etc. Transparently inheriting AUTH info might sometimes not be desired or be tricky, not sure. I'd try this after all else is done (see below). > * Many new arguments required > > I think it's not very nice to have so many new arguments to the > constructors, > and especially dislike having an argument that's only useful when other args > are provided (auth_cache). Not sure how to improve that, though... What about a py.path.SvnAuth class ... * that groks all these options * can create the proper commandline switches (and unit-testing particularly this) * then add an explicit 'svnauth' parameter to wc.checkout and wc.commit (which other svnwc methods need it?) * add an explicit 'svnauth' param to svnurl methods * -- * add an explicit 'svnauth' param to the svnurl constructor and experiment with inheriting it around I think that an "SvnAuth" instance should also be able to signal "just use defaults/whatever is stored on the FS". Eventually we might want to generalize SvnAuth slightly into some Identity or Auth class that can also be used e.g. for py.execnet.SshGateway. HTH, holger -- Holger Krekel - freelance manager and programmer merlinux GmbH: http://merlinux.de py.test: http://pytest.org py lib: http://pylib.org PyPy: http://codespeak.net/pypy _______________________________________________ py-dev mailing list py-dev@codespeak.net http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/py-dev
