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  • Committer: Canonical.com Patch Queue Manager
  • Date: 2009-12-10 17:35:37 UTC
  • mfrom: (4849.4.3 2.1.0b4-xml8)
  • Revision ID: pqm@pqm.ubuntu.com-20091210173537-7gui2z64ki7nioit
(jam) Faster conversions by enabling re-use of cached
        InventoryEntries.

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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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