This is very much like ordinary batch(), but it will let me add a mode
for batch where we have pathologically large requests which are then
handled streamily. This will be a significant improvement for things
like remotefilelog, which may want to request thousands of entities at
once.
"Real" batching only makes sense for wirepeers, but it greatly
simplifies the clients of peer instances if they can be ignorant to
actual batching capabilities of that peer. By moving the
not-really-batched batching code into peer.peer, all peer instances
now work with the batching API, thus simplifying users.
This leaves a couple of name forwards in wirepeer.py. Originally I had
planned to clean those up, but it kind of unclarifies other bits of
code that want to use batching, so I think it makes sense for the
names to stay exposed by wireproto. Specifically, almost nothing is
currently aware of peer (see largefiles.proto for an example), so
making them be aware of the peer module *and* the wireproto module
seems like some abstraction leakage. I *think* the right long-term fix
would actually be to make wireproto an implementation detail that
clients wouldn't need to know about, but I don't really know what that
would entail at the moment.
As far as I'm aware, no clients of batching in third-party extensions
will need updating, which is nice icing.
This change separates peer implementations from the repository implementation.
localpeer currently is a simple pass-through to localrepository, except for
legacy calls, which have already been removed from localpeer. This ensures that
the local client code only uses the most modern peer API when talking to local
repos.
Peers have a .local() method which returns either None or the underlying
localrepository (or descendant thereof). Repos have a .peer() method to return
a freshly constructed localpeer. The latter is used by hg.peer(), and also to
allow folks to pass either a peer or a repo to some generic helper methods.
We might want to get rid of .peer() eventually.
The only user of locallegacypeer is debugdiscovery, which uses it to pose as a
pre-setdiscovery client. But we decided to leave the old API defined in
locallegacypeer for clarity and maybe for other uses in the future.
It might be nice to actually define the peer API directly in peer.py as stub
methods. One problem there is, however, that localpeer implements
lock/addchangegroup, whereas the true remote peers implement unbundle.
It might be desireable to get rid of this distinction eventually.