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  • Committer: John Arbash Meinel
  • Date: 2010-02-10 17:52:08 UTC
  • mfrom: (5021 +trunk)
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 5023.
  • Revision ID: john@arbash-meinel.com-20100210175208-bubuwav4uqigu291
Merge bzr.dev 5021 to resolve 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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        """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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        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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                                   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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    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):