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  • Committer: John Arbash Meinel
  • Date: 2009-07-29 21:35:05 UTC
  • mfrom: (4576 +trunk)
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 4577.
  • Revision ID: john@arbash-meinel.com-20090729213505-tkqsvy1zfpocu75w
Merge bzr.dev 4576 in prep for NEWS

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    squashes_xml_invalid_characters = False
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    def write_inventory(self, inv, f):
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        """Write inventory to a file.
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        Note: this is a *whole inventory* operation, and should only be used
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        sparingly, as it does not scale well with large trees.
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        """
 
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        """Write inventory to a file"""
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        raise NotImplementedError(self.write_inventory)
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    def write_inventory_to_string(self, inv):
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        """Produce a simple string representation of an inventory.
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        Note: this is a *whole inventory* operation, and should only be used
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        sparingly, as it does not scale well with large trees.
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        The requirement for the contents of the string is that it can be passed
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        to read_inventory_from_string and the result is an identical inventory
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        in memory.
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        (All serializers as of 2009-07-29 produce XML, but this is not mandated
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        by the interface.)
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        """
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        raise NotImplementedError(self.write_inventory_to_string)
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    def read_inventory_from_string(self, string, revision_id=None,
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        raise NotImplementedError(self.read_inventory_from_string)
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    def read_inventory(self, f, revision_id=None):
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        """See read_inventory_from_string."""
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        raise NotImplementedError(self.read_inventory)
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    def write_revision(self, rev, f):