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  • Committer: John Arbash Meinel
  • Date: 2010-02-17 17:11:16 UTC
  • mfrom: (4797.2.17 2.1)
  • mto: (4797.2.18 2.1)
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 5055.
  • Revision ID: john@arbash-meinel.com-20100217171116-h7t9223ystbnx5h8
merge bzr.2.1 in preparation for NEWS entry.

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# Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2009 Canonical Ltd
 
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# Copyright (C) 2009, 2010 Canonical Ltd
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# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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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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                                   entry_cache=None):
 
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                                   entry_cache=None, return_from_cache=False):
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        """Read string into an inventory object.
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        :param string: The serialized inventory to read.
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        :param entry_cache: An optional cache of InventoryEntry objects. If
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            supplied we will look up entries via (file_id, revision_id) which
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            should map to a valid InventoryEntry (File/Directory/etc) object.
 
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        :param return_from_cache: Return entries directly from the cache,
 
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            rather than copying them first. This is only safe if the caller
 
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            promises not to mutate the returned inventory entries, but it can
 
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            make some operations significantly faster.
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        """
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        raise NotImplementedError(self.read_inventory_from_string)
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