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[RFC,v2] cat-file: add a --stdin-cmd mode

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John Cai Jan. 25, 2022, 10:50 p.m. UTC
This RFC patch proposes a new flag --stdin-cmd that works with
git-cat-file --batch. Similar to git-update-ref --stdin, it will accept
commands and arguments from stdin.

The start of this idea was discussed in [1], where the original
motivation was to be able to control when the buffer was flushed to
stdout in --buffer mode.

However, this can actually be much more useful in situations when
git-cat-file --batch is being used as a long lived backend query
process. At GitLab, we use a pair of cat-file processes. One for
iterating over object metadata with --batch-check, and the other to grab
object contents with --batch. However, if we had --stdin-cmd, we could
get rid of the second --batch-check process, and just have one progress
where we can flip between getting object info, and getting object contents.
This can lead to huge savings.

git cat-file --batch --stdin-cmd

$ <command> [arg1] [arg2] NL

We can also add a -z mode to allow for NUL-terminated lines

$ <command> [arg1] [arg2] NUL

This patch adds three commands: object, info, fflush

$ object <sha1> NL
$ info <sha1> NL
$ fflush NL

These three would be immediately useful in GitLab's context, but one can
imagine this mode to be further extended for other things.

For instance, a non-trivial part of "cat-file --batch" time is spent
on parsing its argument and seeing if it's a revision, ref etc. So we
could add a command that only accepts a full-length 40
character SHA-1.

This would be the first step in adding such an interface to
git-cat-file.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.1124.git.git.1636149400.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/

Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com>
---
Changes from v1:

- changed option name to batch-command.
- changed command function interface to receive the whole line after the command
  name to put the onus of parsing arguments to each individual command function.
- pass in whole line to batch_one_object in both parse_cmd_object and
  parse_cmd_info to support spaces in the object reference.
- removed addition of -z to include in a separate patch series
- added documentation.
---
 Documentation/git-cat-file.txt |  15 +++++
 builtin/cat-file.c             | 114 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 strvec.c                       |  23 +++++++
 strvec.h                       |   8 +++
 t/t1006-cat-file.sh            |  32 +++++++++
 5 files changed, 191 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

John Cai Jan. 25, 2022, 11 p.m. UTC | #1
On 25 Jan 2022, at 17:50, John Cai wrote:

> This RFC patch proposes a new flag --stdin-cmd that works with
> git-cat-file --batch. Similar to git-update-ref --stdin, it will accept
> commands and arguments from stdin.

Sorry I forgot to change this summary. s/--stdin-cmd/--batch-command

>
> The start of this idea was discussed in [1], where the original
> motivation was to be able to control when the buffer was flushed to
> stdout in --buffer mode.
>
> However, this can actually be much more useful in situations when
> git-cat-file --batch is being used as a long lived backend query
> process. At GitLab, we use a pair of cat-file processes. One for
> iterating over object metadata with --batch-check, and the other to grab
> object contents with --batch. However, if we had --stdin-cmd, we could
> get rid of the second --batch-check process, and just have one progress
> where we can flip between getting object info, and getting object contents.
> This can lead to huge savings.
>
> git cat-file --batch --stdin-cmd
>
> $ <command> [arg1] [arg2] NL
>
> We can also add a -z mode to allow for NUL-terminated lines
>
> $ <command> [arg1] [arg2] NUL
>
> This patch adds three commands: object, info, fflush
>
> $ object <sha1> NL
> $ info <sha1> NL
> $ fflush NL
>
> These three would be immediately useful in GitLab's context, but one can
> imagine this mode to be further extended for other things.
>
> For instance, a non-trivial part of "cat-file --batch" time is spent
> on parsing its argument and seeing if it's a revision, ref etc. So we
> could add a command that only accepts a full-length 40
> character SHA-1.
>
> This would be the first step in adding such an interface to
> git-cat-file.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.1124.git.git.1636149400.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/
>
> Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com>
> ---
> Changes from v1:
>
> - changed option name to batch-command.
> - changed command function interface to receive the whole line after the command
>   name to put the onus of parsing arguments to each individual command function.
> - pass in whole line to batch_one_object in both parse_cmd_object and
>   parse_cmd_info to support spaces in the object reference.
> - removed addition of -z to include in a separate patch series
> - added documentation.
> ---
>  Documentation/git-cat-file.txt |  15 +++++
>  builtin/cat-file.c             | 114 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  strvec.c                       |  23 +++++++
>  strvec.h                       |   8 +++
>  t/t1006-cat-file.sh            |  32 +++++++++
>  5 files changed, 191 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
> index bef76f4dd0..8aefa45e4c 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
> @@ -96,6 +96,21 @@ OPTIONS
>  	need to specify the path, separated by whitespace.  See the
>  	section `BATCH OUTPUT` below for details.
>
> +-batch-command::
> +	Enter a command mode that reads from stdin. May not be combined with any
> +	other options or arguments except `--textconv` or `--filters`, in which
> +	case the input lines also need to specify the path, separated by
> +	whitespace.  See the section `BATCH OUTPUT` below for details.
> +
> +object <object>::
> +	Print object contents for object reference <object>
> +
> +info <object>::
> +	Print object info for object reference <object>
> +
> +flush::
> +	Flush to stdout immediately when used with --buffer
> +
>  --batch-all-objects::
>  	Instead of reading a list of objects on stdin, perform the
>  	requested batch operation on all objects in the repository and
> diff --git a/builtin/cat-file.c b/builtin/cat-file.c
> index 7b3f42950e..30794284d5 100644
> --- a/builtin/cat-file.c
> +++ b/builtin/cat-file.c
> @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
>  #include "packfile.h"
>  #include "object-store.h"
>  #include "promisor-remote.h"
> +#include "strvec.h"
>
>  struct batch_options {
>  	int enabled;
> @@ -26,7 +27,10 @@ struct batch_options {
>  	int unordered;
>  	int cmdmode; /* may be 'w' or 'c' for --filters or --textconv */
>  	const char *format;
> +	int stdin_cmd;
> +	int end_null;
>  };
> +static char line_termination = '\n';
>
>  static const char *force_path;
>
> @@ -508,6 +512,102 @@ static int batch_unordered_packed(const struct object_id *oid,
>  				      data);
>  }
>
> +enum batch_state {
> +	/* Non-transactional state open for commands. */
> +	BATCH_STATE_OPEN,
> +};
> +
> +static void parse_cmd_object(struct batch_options *opt,
> +			     const char *line,
> +			     struct strbuf *output,
> +			     struct expand_data *data)
> +{
> +	opt->print_contents = 1;
> +	batch_one_object(line, output, opt, data);
> +}
> +
> +static void parse_cmd_info(struct batch_options *opt,
> +			   const char *line,
> +			   struct strbuf *output,
> +			   struct expand_data *data)
> +{
> +	opt->print_contents = 0;
> +	batch_one_object(line, output, opt, data);
> +}
> +
> +static void parse_cmd_fflush(struct batch_options *opt,
> +			     const char *line,
> +			     struct strbuf *output,
> +			     struct expand_data *data)
> +{
> +	fflush(stdout);
> +}
> +
> +typedef void (*parse_cmd_fn_t)(struct batch_options *, const char *,
> +			       struct strbuf *, struct expand_data *);
> +
> +static const struct parse_cmd {
> +	const char *prefix;
> +	parse_cmd_fn_t fn;
> +	unsigned args;
> +	enum batch_state state;
> +} commands[] = {
> +	{ "object", parse_cmd_object, 1, BATCH_STATE_OPEN },
> +	{ "info", parse_cmd_info, 1, BATCH_STATE_OPEN },
> +	{ "fflush", parse_cmd_fflush, 0, BATCH_STATE_OPEN },
> +};
> +
> +static void batch_objects_stdin_cmd(struct batch_options *opt,
> +				    struct strbuf *output,
> +				    struct expand_data *data)
> +{
> +	struct strbuf input = STRBUF_INIT;
> +	enum batch_state state = BATCH_STATE_OPEN;
> +
> +	/* Read each line dispatch its command */
> +	while (!strbuf_getwholeline(&input, stdin, line_termination)) {
> +		int i;
> +		const struct parse_cmd *cmd = NULL;
> +		const char *p;
> +
> +		if (*input.buf == line_termination)
> +			die("empty command in input");
> +		else if (isspace(*input.buf))
> +			die("whitespace before command: %s", input.buf);
> +
> +		for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(commands); i++) {
> +			const char *prefix = commands[i].prefix;
> +			char c;
> +			const char *cmd_name;
> +			if (!skip_prefix(input.buf, prefix, &cmd_name))
> +				continue;
> +			/*
> +			 * If the command has arguments, verify that it's
> +			 * followed by a space. Otherwise, it shall be followed
> +			 * by a line terminator.
> +			 */
> +			c = commands[i].args ? ' ' : line_termination;
> +			if (input.buf[strlen(prefix)] != c)
> +				continue;
> +
> +			cmd = &commands[i];
> +			break;
> +		}
> +		if (!cmd)
> +			die("unknown command: %s", input.buf);
> +
> +		p = input.buf + strlen(cmd->prefix) + 1;
> +		const char *pos = strstr(p, &line_termination);
> +
> +		switch (state) {
> +		case BATCH_STATE_OPEN:
> +			break;
> +		}
> +		cmd->fn(opt, xstrndup(p, pos-p), output, data);
> +	}
> +	strbuf_release(&input);
> +}
> +
>  static int batch_objects(struct batch_options *opt)
>  {
>  	struct strbuf input = STRBUF_INIT;
> @@ -515,6 +615,7 @@ static int batch_objects(struct batch_options *opt)
>  	struct expand_data data;
>  	int save_warning;
>  	int retval = 0;
> +	const int stdin_cmd = opt->stdin_cmd;
>
>  	if (!opt->format)
>  		opt->format = "%(objectname) %(objecttype) %(objectsize)";
> @@ -590,7 +691,8 @@ static int batch_objects(struct batch_options *opt)
>  	save_warning = warn_on_object_refname_ambiguity;
>  	warn_on_object_refname_ambiguity = 0;
>
> -	while (strbuf_getline(&input, stdin) != EOF) {
> +	while (!stdin_cmd &&
> +	       strbuf_getline(&input, stdin) != EOF) {
>  		if (data.split_on_whitespace) {
>  			/*
>  			 * Split at first whitespace, tying off the beginning
> @@ -608,6 +710,9 @@ static int batch_objects(struct batch_options *opt)
>  		batch_one_object(input.buf, &output, opt, &data);
>  	}
>
> +	if (stdin_cmd)
> +		batch_objects_stdin_cmd(opt, &output, &data);
> +
>  	strbuf_release(&input);
>  	strbuf_release(&output);
>  	warn_on_object_refname_ambiguity = save_warning;
> @@ -636,6 +741,7 @@ static int batch_option_callback(const struct option *opt,
>
>  	bo->enabled = 1;
>  	bo->print_contents = !strcmp(opt->long_name, "batch");
> +	bo->stdin_cmd = !strcmp(opt->long_name, "batch-command");
>  	bo->format = arg;
>
>  	return 0;
> @@ -683,6 +789,10 @@ int cmd_cat_file(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>  			N_("like --batch, but don't emit <contents>"),
>  			PARSE_OPT_OPTARG | PARSE_OPT_NONEG,
>  			batch_option_callback),
> +		OPT_CALLBACK_F(0, "batch-command", &batch, N_(""),
> +			 N_("enters batch mode that accepts commands"),
> +			 PARSE_OPT_NOARG | PARSE_OPT_NONEG,
> +			 batch_option_callback),
>  		OPT_CMDMODE(0, "batch-all-objects", &opt,
>  			    N_("with --batch[-check]: ignores stdin, batches all known objects"), 'b'),
>  		/* Batch-specific options */
> @@ -738,6 +848,8 @@ int cmd_cat_file(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>  	/* Batch defaults */
>  	if (batch.buffer_output < 0)
>  		batch.buffer_output = batch.all_objects;
> +	if (batch.end_null)
> +		line_termination = '\0';
>
>  	/* Return early if we're in batch mode? */
>  	if (batch.enabled) {
> diff --git a/strvec.c b/strvec.c
> index 61a76ce6cb..7dca04bf7a 100644
> --- a/strvec.c
> +++ b/strvec.c
> @@ -85,6 +85,29 @@ void strvec_split(struct strvec *array, const char *to_split)
>  	}
>  }
>
> +size_t strvec_split_delim(struct strvec *array, const char *string,
> +			  int delim, int maxsplit)
> +{
> +	size_t count = 0;
> +	const char *p = string, *end;
> +
> +	for (;;) {
> +		count++;
> +		if (maxsplit >= 0 && count > maxsplit) {
> +			strvec_push(array, p);
> +			return count;
> +		}
> +		end = strchr(p, delim);
> +		if (end) {
> +			strvec_push_nodup(array, xmemdupz(p, end - p));
> +			p = end + 1;
> +		} else {
> +			strvec_push(array, p);
> +			return count;
> +		}
> +	}
> +}
> +
>  void strvec_clear(struct strvec *array)
>  {
>  	if (array->v != empty_strvec) {
> diff --git a/strvec.h b/strvec.h
> index 9f55c8766b..c474918b91 100644
> --- a/strvec.h
> +++ b/strvec.h
> @@ -73,6 +73,14 @@ void strvec_pop(struct strvec *);
>  /* Splits by whitespace; does not handle quoted arguments! */
>  void strvec_split(struct strvec *, const char *);
>
> +/**
> + * strvec_split_delim() is a split function that behaves more like its
> + * string_list_split() cousin than the whitespace-splitting
> + * strvec_split().
> + */
> +size_t strvec_split_delim(struct strvec *array, const char *string,
> +			  int delim, int maxsplit);
> +
>  /**
>   * Free all memory associated with the array and return it to the
>   * initial, empty state.
> diff --git a/t/t1006-cat-file.sh b/t/t1006-cat-file.sh
> index 145eee11df..935ab1cd34 100755
> --- a/t/t1006-cat-file.sh
> +++ b/t/t1006-cat-file.sh
> @@ -964,4 +964,36 @@ test_expect_success 'cat-file --batch-all-objects --batch-check ignores replace'
>  	test_cmp expect actual
>  '
>
> +F='%s\0'
> +
> +test_expect_success 'batch-command unknown command' '
> +	echo unknown_command >cmd &&
> +	test_expect_code 128 git cat-file --batch-command < cmd 2>err &&
> +	grep -E "^fatal:.*unknown command.*" err
> +'
> +
> +test_expect_success 'setup object data' '
> +	content="Object Data" &&
> +	size=$(strlen "$content") &&
> +	sha1=$(echo_without_newline "$content" | git hash-object -w --stdin)
> +'
> +
> +test_expect_success 'batch-command calling object works' '
> +	echo "object $sha1" | git cat-file --batch-command >actual &&
> +	echo "$sha1 blob $size" >expect &&
> +	echo `git cat-file -p "$sha1"` >>expect &&
> +	test_cmp expect actual
> +'
> +
> +test_expect_success 'batch-command calling info works' '
> +	echo "info $sha1" | git cat-file --batch-command >actual &&
> +	echo "$sha1 blob $size" >expect &&
> +	test_cmp expect actual
> +'
> +
> +test_expect_success 'batch-command fflush works' '
> +	printf "fflush\n" > cmd &&
> +	test_expect_code 0 git cat-file --batch-command < cmd 2>err
> +'
> +
>  test_done
> -- 
> 2.34.1
Phillip Wood Jan. 27, 2022, 11:25 a.m. UTC | #2
Hi John

On 25/01/2022 22:50, John Cai wrote:
> This RFC patch proposes a new flag --stdin-cmd that works with
> git-cat-file --batch. Similar to git-update-ref --stdin, it will accept
> commands and arguments from stdin.
> 
> The start of this idea was discussed in [1], where the original
> motivation was to be able to control when the buffer was flushed to
> stdout in --buffer mode.
> 
> However, this can actually be much more useful in situations when
> git-cat-file --batch is being used as a long lived backend query
> process. At GitLab, we use a pair of cat-file processes. One for
> iterating over object metadata with --batch-check, and the other to grab
> object contents with --batch. However, if we had --stdin-cmd, we could
> get rid of the second --batch-check process, and just have one progress
> where we can flip between getting object info, and getting object contents.
> This can lead to huge savings.
> 
> git cat-file --batch --stdin-cmd
> 
> $ <command> [arg1] [arg2] NL
> 
> We can also add a -z mode to allow for NUL-terminated lines
> 
> $ <command> [arg1] [arg2] NUL
> 
> This patch adds three commands: object, info, fflush
> 
> $ object <sha1> NL
> $ info <sha1> NL
> $ fflush NL
> 
> These three would be immediately useful in GitLab's context, but one can
> imagine this mode to be further extended for other things.
> 
> For instance, a non-trivial part of "cat-file --batch" time is spent
> on parsing its argument and seeing if it's a revision, ref etc. So we
> could add a command that only accepts a full-length 40
> character SHA-1.
> 
> This would be the first step in adding such an interface to
> git-cat-file.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.1124.git.git.1636149400.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/
> 
> Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com>
> ---
> Changes from v1:
> 
> - changed option name to batch-command.
> - changed command function interface to receive the whole line after the command
>    name to put the onus of parsing arguments to each individual command function.
> - pass in whole line to batch_one_object in both parse_cmd_object and
>    parse_cmd_info to support spaces in the object reference.
> - removed addition of -z to include in a separate patch series
> - added documentation.

I've left some comments below, they're mostly small details, I like the 
new option name and the changes you've made to the command parsing.

> ---
>   Documentation/git-cat-file.txt |  15 +++++
>   builtin/cat-file.c             | 114 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>   strvec.c                       |  23 +++++++
>   strvec.h                       |   8 +++
>   t/t1006-cat-file.sh            |  32 +++++++++
>   5 files changed, 191 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
> index bef76f4dd0..8aefa45e4c 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
> @@ -96,6 +96,21 @@ OPTIONS
>   	need to specify the path, separated by whitespace.  See the
>   	section `BATCH OUTPUT` below for details.
>   
> +-batch-command::

is this missing a '-'?

> +	Enter a command mode that reads from stdin. May not be combined with any
> +	other options or arguments except `--textconv` or `--filters`, in which
> +	case the input lines also need to specify the path, separated by
> +	whitespace.  See the section `BATCH OUTPUT` below for details.
> +
> +object <object>::
> +	Print object contents for object reference <object>
> +
> +info <object>::
> +	Print object info for object reference <object>
> +
> +flush::
> +	Flush to stdout immediately when used with --buffer
> +
>   --batch-all-objects::
>   	Instead of reading a list of objects on stdin, perform the
>   	requested batch operation on all objects in the repository and
> diff --git a/builtin/cat-file.c b/builtin/cat-file.c
> index 7b3f42950e..30794284d5 100644
> --- a/builtin/cat-file.c
> +++ b/builtin/cat-file.c
> @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
>   #include "packfile.h"
>   #include "object-store.h"
>   #include "promisor-remote.h"
> +#include "strvec.h"
>   
>   struct batch_options {
>   	int enabled;
> @@ -26,7 +27,10 @@ struct batch_options {
>   	int unordered;
>   	int cmdmode; /* may be 'w' or 'c' for --filters or --textconv */
>   	const char *format;
> +	int stdin_cmd;

Now that the option has been renamed it would be nice to rename the 
corresponding variable to match

> +	int end_null;

If you're not adding '-z' here then you don't need this or the addition 
below.

>   };
> +static char line_termination = '\n';
>   
>   static const char *force_path;
>   
> @@ -508,6 +512,102 @@ static int batch_unordered_packed(const struct object_id *oid,
>   				      data);
>   }
>   
> +enum batch_state {
> +	/* Non-transactional state open for commands. */
> +	BATCH_STATE_OPEN,
> +};

I forgot to ask what the idea behind the batch state is last time - 
what's it for?

> +static void parse_cmd_object(struct batch_options *opt,
> +			     const char *line,
> +			     struct strbuf *output,
> +			     struct expand_data *data)
> +{
> +	opt->print_contents = 1;
> +	batch_one_object(line, output, opt, data);
> +}
> +
> +static void parse_cmd_info(struct batch_options *opt,
> +			   const char *line,
> +			   struct strbuf *output,
> +			   struct expand_data *data)
> +{
> +	opt->print_contents = 0;
> +	batch_one_object(line, output, opt, data);
> +}
> +
> +static void parse_cmd_fflush(struct batch_options *opt,
> +			     const char *line,
> +			     struct strbuf *output,
> +			     struct expand_data *data)
> +{
> +	fflush(stdout);
> +}
> +
> +typedef void (*parse_cmd_fn_t)(struct batch_options *, const char *,
> +			       struct strbuf *, struct expand_data *);
> +
> +static const struct parse_cmd {
> +	const char *prefix;
> +	parse_cmd_fn_t fn;
> +	unsigned args;

This is now a flag so maybe 'takes_args' would better describe its purpose.

> +	enum batch_state state;
> +} commands[] = {
> +	{ "object", parse_cmd_object, 1, BATCH_STATE_OPEN },
> +	{ "info", parse_cmd_info, 1, BATCH_STATE_OPEN },
> +	{ "fflush", parse_cmd_fflush, 0, BATCH_STATE_OPEN },
> +};
> +
> +static void batch_objects_stdin_cmd(struct batch_options *opt,
> +				    struct strbuf *output,
> +				    struct expand_data *data)
> +{
> +	struct strbuf input = STRBUF_INIT;
> +	enum batch_state state = BATCH_STATE_OPEN;
> +
> +	/* Read each line dispatch its command */
> +	while (!strbuf_getwholeline(&input, stdin, line_termination)) {
> +		int i;
> +		const struct parse_cmd *cmd = NULL;
> +		const char *p;
> +
> +		if (*input.buf == line_termination)
> +			die("empty command in input");
> +		else if (isspace(*input.buf))
> +			die("whitespace before command: %s", input.buf);
> +
> +		for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(commands); i++) {
> +			const char *prefix = commands[i].prefix;
> +			char c;
> +			const char *cmd_name;

skip_prefix() sets this to the end of the name so maybe 'cmd_end' would 
be clearer?

> +			if (!skip_prefix(input.buf, prefix, &cmd_name))
> +				continue;
> +			/*
> +			 * If the command has arguments, verify that it's
> +			 * followed by a space. Otherwise, it shall be followed
> +			 * by a line terminator.
> +			 */
> +			c = commands[i].args ? ' ' : line_termination;
> +			if (input.buf[strlen(prefix)] != c)

Now that you're using skip_prefix() you can write this as
			if (*cmd_end != c)

> +				continue;
> +
> +			cmd = &commands[i];
> +			break;
> +		}
> +		if (!cmd)
> +			die("unknown command: %s", input.buf);
> +
> +		p = input.buf + strlen(cmd->prefix) + 1;

This can be simplified to
		p = cmd_end + 1;

> +		const char *pos = strstr(p, &line_termination);

This isn't needed without '-z'. If it were required then using 
strchrnul() would prevent a NULL pointer dereference when the last input 
line does not end with a terminator. I think we typically call a pointer 
to the end of the line 'eol' or 'end'. Also variables should be declared 
at the top of the function.

> +		switch (state) {
> +		case BATCH_STATE_OPEN:
> +			break;
> +		}
> +		cmd->fn(opt, xstrndup(p, pos-p), output, data);

Is there a reason this is passing a copy of the string?

> +	}
> +	strbuf_release(&input);
> +}
> +
>   static int batch_objects(struct batch_options *opt)
>   {
>   	struct strbuf input = STRBUF_INIT;
> @@ -515,6 +615,7 @@ static int batch_objects(struct batch_options *opt)
>   	struct expand_data data;
>   	int save_warning;
>   	int retval = 0;
> +	const int stdin_cmd = opt->stdin_cmd;
>   
>   	if (!opt->format)
>   		opt->format = "%(objectname) %(objecttype) %(objectsize)";
> @@ -590,7 +691,8 @@ static int batch_objects(struct batch_options *opt)
>   	save_warning = warn_on_object_refname_ambiguity;
>   	warn_on_object_refname_ambiguity = 0;
>   
> -	while (strbuf_getline(&input, stdin) != EOF) {
> +	while (!stdin_cmd &&

If you moved the 'if (stdin_cmd)' block above this block we could loose 
this change. I'm not sure if that is possible without looking at the 
whole function though.

> +	       strbuf_getline(&input, stdin) != EOF) {
>   		if (data.split_on_whitespace) {
>   			/*
>   			 * Split at first whitespace, tying off the beginning
> @@ -608,6 +710,9 @@ static int batch_objects(struct batch_options *opt)
>   		batch_one_object(input.buf, &output, opt, &data);
>   	}
>   
> +	if (stdin_cmd)
> +		batch_objects_stdin_cmd(opt, &output, &data);
> +
>   	strbuf_release(&input);
>   	strbuf_release(&output);
>   	warn_on_object_refname_ambiguity = save_warning;
> @@ -636,6 +741,7 @@ static int batch_option_callback(const struct option *opt,
>   
>   	bo->enabled = 1;
>   	bo->print_contents = !strcmp(opt->long_name, "batch");
> +	bo->stdin_cmd = !strcmp(opt->long_name, "batch-command");
>   	bo->format = arg;
>   
>   	return 0;
> @@ -683,6 +789,10 @@ int cmd_cat_file(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>   			N_("like --batch, but don't emit <contents>"),
>   			PARSE_OPT_OPTARG | PARSE_OPT_NONEG,
>   			batch_option_callback),
> +		OPT_CALLBACK_F(0, "batch-command", &batch, N_(""),
> +			 N_("enters batch mode that accepts commands"),
> +			 PARSE_OPT_NOARG | PARSE_OPT_NONEG,
> +			 batch_option_callback),
>   		OPT_CMDMODE(0, "batch-all-objects", &opt,
>   			    N_("with --batch[-check]: ignores stdin, batches all known objects"), 'b'),
>   		/* Batch-specific options */
> @@ -738,6 +848,8 @@ int cmd_cat_file(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>   	/* Batch defaults */
>   	if (batch.buffer_output < 0)
>   		batch.buffer_output = batch.all_objects;
> +	if (batch.end_null)
> +		line_termination = '\0';
>   
>   	/* Return early if we're in batch mode? */
>   	if (batch.enabled) {
> diff --git a/strvec.c b/strvec.c
> index 61a76ce6cb..7dca04bf7a 100644
> --- a/strvec.c
> +++ b/strvec.c
>[...]

We don't need any strvec changes now that we don't split the input lines 
to --bactch-command

> +F='%s\0'

This isn't used now

> +test_expect_success 'batch-command unknown command' '
> +	echo unknown_command >cmd &&
> +	test_expect_code 128 git cat-file --batch-command < cmd 2>err &&
> +	grep -E "^fatal:.*unknown command.*" err
> +'
> +
> +test_expect_success 'setup object data' '
> +	content="Object Data" &&
> +	size=$(strlen "$content") &&
> +	sha1=$(echo_without_newline "$content" | git hash-object -w --stdin)
> +'
> +
> +test_expect_success 'batch-command calling object works' '
> +	echo "object $sha1" | git cat-file --batch-command >actual &&
> +	echo "$sha1 blob $size" >expect &&
> +	echo `git cat-file -p "$sha1"` >>expect &&
> +	test_cmp expect actual
> +'
> +
> +test_expect_success 'batch-command calling info works' '
> +	echo "info $sha1" | git cat-file --batch-command >actual &&
> +	echo "$sha1 blob $size" >expect &&
> +	test_cmp expect actual
> +'

I had a quick look at this test file and there is a loop at the top that 
runs some --batch tests on various inputs, I wonder if these two tests 
could go in there.

> +test_expect_success 'batch-command fflush works' '
> +	printf "fflush\n" > cmd &&
> +	test_expect_code 0 git cat-file --batch-command < cmd 2>err
> +'

It'd be nice to check this actually flushes the output.

Best Wishes

Phillip

>   test_done
John Cai Jan. 27, 2022, 9:04 p.m. UTC | #3
Hey Phillip,

First of all thank you for the thorough review—it really helps someone who’s learning how to contribute!

On 27 Jan 2022, at 6:25, Phillip Wood wrote:

> Hi John
>
> On 25/01/2022 22:50, John Cai wrote:
>> This RFC patch proposes a new flag --stdin-cmd that works with
>> git-cat-file --batch. Similar to git-update-ref --stdin, it will accept
>> commands and arguments from stdin.
>>
>> The start of this idea was discussed in [1], where the original
>> motivation was to be able to control when the buffer was flushed to
>> stdout in --buffer mode.
>>
>> However, this can actually be much more useful in situations when
>> git-cat-file --batch is being used as a long lived backend query
>> process. At GitLab, we use a pair of cat-file processes. One for
>> iterating over object metadata with --batch-check, and the other to grab
>> object contents with --batch. However, if we had --stdin-cmd, we could
>> get rid of the second --batch-check process, and just have one progress
>> where we can flip between getting object info, and getting object contents.
>> This can lead to huge savings.
>>
>> git cat-file --batch --stdin-cmd
>>
>> $ <command> [arg1] [arg2] NL
>>
>> We can also add a -z mode to allow for NUL-terminated lines
>>
>> $ <command> [arg1] [arg2] NUL
>>
>> This patch adds three commands: object, info, fflush
>>
>> $ object <sha1> NL
>> $ info <sha1> NL
>> $ fflush NL
>>
>> These three would be immediately useful in GitLab's context, but one can
>> imagine this mode to be further extended for other things.
>>
>> For instance, a non-trivial part of "cat-file --batch" time is spent
>> on parsing its argument and seeing if it's a revision, ref etc. So we
>> could add a command that only accepts a full-length 40
>> character SHA-1.
>>
>> This would be the first step in adding such an interface to
>> git-cat-file.
>>
>> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.1124.git.git.1636149400.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/
>>
>> Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
>> Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com>
>> ---
>> Changes from v1:
>>
>> - changed option name to batch-command.
>> - changed command function interface to receive the whole line after the command
>>    name to put the onus of parsing arguments to each individual command function.
>> - pass in whole line to batch_one_object in both parse_cmd_object and
>>    parse_cmd_info to support spaces in the object reference.
>> - removed addition of -z to include in a separate patch series
>> - added documentation.
>
> I've left some comments below, they're mostly small details, I like the new option name and the changes you've made to the command parsing.
>
>> ---
>>   Documentation/git-cat-file.txt |  15 +++++
>>   builtin/cat-file.c             | 114 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>   strvec.c                       |  23 +++++++
>>   strvec.h                       |   8 +++
>>   t/t1006-cat-file.sh            |  32 +++++++++
>>   5 files changed, 191 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
>> index bef76f4dd0..8aefa45e4c 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
>> @@ -96,6 +96,21 @@ OPTIONS
>>   	need to specify the path, separated by whitespace.  See the
>>   	section `BATCH OUTPUT` below for details.
>>  +-batch-command::
>
> is this missing a '-'?
>
>> +	Enter a command mode that reads from stdin. May not be combined with any
>> +	other options or arguments except `--textconv` or `--filters`, in which
>> +	case the input lines also need to specify the path, separated by
>> +	whitespace.  See the section `BATCH OUTPUT` below for details.
>> +
>> +object <object>::
>> +	Print object contents for object reference <object>
>> +
>> +info <object>::
>> +	Print object info for object reference <object>
>> +
>> +flush::
>> +	Flush to stdout immediately when used with --buffer
>> +
>>   --batch-all-objects::
>>   	Instead of reading a list of objects on stdin, perform the
>>   	requested batch operation on all objects in the repository and
>> diff --git a/builtin/cat-file.c b/builtin/cat-file.c
>> index 7b3f42950e..30794284d5 100644
>> --- a/builtin/cat-file.c
>> +++ b/builtin/cat-file.c
>> @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
>>   #include "packfile.h"
>>   #include "object-store.h"
>>   #include "promisor-remote.h"
>> +#include "strvec.h"
>>    struct batch_options {
>>   	int enabled;
>> @@ -26,7 +27,10 @@ struct batch_options {
>>   	int unordered;
>>   	int cmdmode; /* may be 'w' or 'c' for --filters or --textconv */
>>   	const char *format;
>> +	int stdin_cmd;
>
> Now that the option has been renamed it would be nice to rename the corresponding variable to match

I was trying to find a good name. There is already a cmdmode variable. I’m thinking stdin_cmd is not such a
bad name since we are receiving commands from stdin. suggestions welcome!

>
>> +	int end_null;
>
> If you're not adding '-z' here then you don't need this or the addition below.
>
>>   };
>> +static char line_termination = '\n';
>>    static const char *force_path;
>>  @@ -508,6 +512,102 @@ static int batch_unordered_packed(const struct object_id *oid,
>>   				      data);
>>   }
>>  +enum batch_state {
>> +	/* Non-transactional state open for commands. */
>> +	BATCH_STATE_OPEN,
>> +};
>
> I forgot to ask what the idea behind the batch state is last time - what's it for?

This is to support transactional semantics for commands we want to support in the future, but
since this is already a biggish change, we can leave this out of this series.

>
>> +static void parse_cmd_object(struct batch_options *opt,
>> +			     const char *line,
>> +			     struct strbuf *output,
>> +			     struct expand_data *data)
>> +{
>> +	opt->print_contents = 1;
>> +	batch_one_object(line, output, opt, data);
>> +}
>> +
>> +static void parse_cmd_info(struct batch_options *opt,
>> +			   const char *line,
>> +			   struct strbuf *output,
>> +			   struct expand_data *data)
>> +{
>> +	opt->print_contents = 0;
>> +	batch_one_object(line, output, opt, data);
>> +}
>> +
>> +static void parse_cmd_fflush(struct batch_options *opt,
>> +			     const char *line,
>> +			     struct strbuf *output,
>> +			     struct expand_data *data)
>> +{
>> +	fflush(stdout);
>> +}
>> +
>> +typedef void (*parse_cmd_fn_t)(struct batch_options *, const char *,
>> +			       struct strbuf *, struct expand_data *);
>> +
>> +static const struct parse_cmd {
>> +	const char *prefix;
>> +	parse_cmd_fn_t fn;
>> +	unsigned args;
>
> This is now a flag so maybe 'takes_args' would better describe its purpose.
>
>> +	enum batch_state state;
>> +} commands[] = {
>> +	{ "object", parse_cmd_object, 1, BATCH_STATE_OPEN },
>> +	{ "info", parse_cmd_info, 1, BATCH_STATE_OPEN },
>> +	{ "fflush", parse_cmd_fflush, 0, BATCH_STATE_OPEN },
>> +};
>> +
>> +static void batch_objects_stdin_cmd(struct batch_options *opt,
>> +				    struct strbuf *output,
>> +				    struct expand_data *data)
>> +{
>> +	struct strbuf input = STRBUF_INIT;
>> +	enum batch_state state = BATCH_STATE_OPEN;
>> +
>> +	/* Read each line dispatch its command */
>> +	while (!strbuf_getwholeline(&input, stdin, line_termination)) {
>> +		int i;
>> +		const struct parse_cmd *cmd = NULL;
>> +		const char *p;
>> +
>> +		if (*input.buf == line_termination)
>> +			die("empty command in input");
>> +		else if (isspace(*input.buf))
>> +			die("whitespace before command: %s", input.buf);
>> +
>> +		for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(commands); i++) {
>> +			const char *prefix = commands[i].prefix;
>> +			char c;
>> +			const char *cmd_name;
>
> skip_prefix() sets this to the end of the name so maybe 'cmd_end' would be clearer?
>
>> +			if (!skip_prefix(input.buf, prefix, &cmd_name))
>> +				continue;
>> +			/*
>> +			 * If the command has arguments, verify that it's
>> +			 * followed by a space. Otherwise, it shall be followed
>> +			 * by a line terminator.
>> +			 */
>> +			c = commands[i].args ? ' ' : line_termination;
>> +			if (input.buf[strlen(prefix)] != c)
>
> Now that you're using skip_prefix() you can write this as
>     		if (*cmd_end != c)
>
>> +				continue;
>> +
>> +			cmd = &commands[i];
>> +			break;
>> +		}
>> +		if (!cmd)
>> +			die("unknown command: %s", input.buf);
>> +
>> +		p = input.buf + strlen(cmd->prefix) + 1;
>
> This can be simplified to
>     	p = cmd_end + 1;
>
>> +		const char *pos = strstr(p, &line_termination);
>
> This isn't needed without '-z'. If it were required then using strchrnul() would prevent a NULL pointer dereference when the last input line does not end with a terminator. I think we typically call a pointer to the end of the line 'eol' or 'end'. Also variables should be declared at the top of the function.
>
>> +		switch (state) {
>> +		case BATCH_STATE_OPEN:
>> +			break;
>> +		}
>> +		cmd->fn(opt, xstrndup(p, pos-p), output, data);
>
> Is there a reason this is passing a copy of the string?
>
>> +	}
>> +	strbuf_release(&input);
>> +}
>> +
>>   static int batch_objects(struct batch_options *opt)
>>   {
>>   	struct strbuf input = STRBUF_INIT;
>> @@ -515,6 +615,7 @@ static int batch_objects(struct batch_options *opt)
>>   	struct expand_data data;
>>   	int save_warning;
>>   	int retval = 0;
>> +	const int stdin_cmd = opt->stdin_cmd;
>>    	if (!opt->format)
>>   		opt->format = "%(objectname) %(objecttype) %(objectsize)";
>> @@ -590,7 +691,8 @@ static int batch_objects(struct batch_options *opt)
>>   	save_warning = warn_on_object_refname_ambiguity;
>>   	warn_on_object_refname_ambiguity = 0;
>>  -	while (strbuf_getline(&input, stdin) != EOF) {
>> +	while (!stdin_cmd &&
>
> If you moved the 'if (stdin_cmd)' block above this block we could loose this change. I'm not sure if that is possible without looking at the whole function though.
>
>> +	       strbuf_getline(&input, stdin) != EOF) {
>>   		if (data.split_on_whitespace) {
>>   			/*
>>   			 * Split at first whitespace, tying off the beginning
>> @@ -608,6 +710,9 @@ static int batch_objects(struct batch_options *opt)
>>   		batch_one_object(input.buf, &output, opt, &data);
>>   	}
>>  +	if (stdin_cmd)
>> +		batch_objects_stdin_cmd(opt, &output, &data);
>> +
>>   	strbuf_release(&input);
>>   	strbuf_release(&output);
>>   	warn_on_object_refname_ambiguity = save_warning;
>> @@ -636,6 +741,7 @@ static int batch_option_callback(const struct option *opt,
>>    	bo->enabled = 1;
>>   	bo->print_contents = !strcmp(opt->long_name, "batch");
>> +	bo->stdin_cmd = !strcmp(opt->long_name, "batch-command");
>>   	bo->format = arg;
>>    	return 0;
>> @@ -683,6 +789,10 @@ int cmd_cat_file(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>>   			N_("like --batch, but don't emit <contents>"),
>>   			PARSE_OPT_OPTARG | PARSE_OPT_NONEG,
>>   			batch_option_callback),
>> +		OPT_CALLBACK_F(0, "batch-command", &batch, N_(""),
>> +			 N_("enters batch mode that accepts commands"),
>> +			 PARSE_OPT_NOARG | PARSE_OPT_NONEG,
>> +			 batch_option_callback),
>>   		OPT_CMDMODE(0, "batch-all-objects", &opt,
>>   			    N_("with --batch[-check]: ignores stdin, batches all known objects"), 'b'),
>>   		/* Batch-specific options */
>> @@ -738,6 +848,8 @@ int cmd_cat_file(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>>   	/* Batch defaults */
>>   	if (batch.buffer_output < 0)
>>   		batch.buffer_output = batch.all_objects;
>> +	if (batch.end_null)
>> +		line_termination = '\0';
>>    	/* Return early if we're in batch mode? */
>>   	if (batch.enabled) {
>> diff --git a/strvec.c b/strvec.c
>> index 61a76ce6cb..7dca04bf7a 100644
>> --- a/strvec.c
>> +++ b/strvec.c
>> [...]
>
> We don't need any strvec changes now that we don't split the input lines to --bactch-command
>
>> +F='%s\0'
>
> This isn't used now
>
>> +test_expect_success 'batch-command unknown command' '
>> +	echo unknown_command >cmd &&
>> +	test_expect_code 128 git cat-file --batch-command < cmd 2>err &&
>> +	grep -E "^fatal:.*unknown command.*" err
>> +'
>> +
>> +test_expect_success 'setup object data' '
>> +	content="Object Data" &&
>> +	size=$(strlen "$content") &&
>> +	sha1=$(echo_without_newline "$content" | git hash-object -w --stdin)
>> +'
>> +
>> +test_expect_success 'batch-command calling object works' '
>> +	echo "object $sha1" | git cat-file --batch-command >actual &&
>> +	echo "$sha1 blob $size" >expect &&
>> +	echo `git cat-file -p "$sha1"` >>expect &&
>> +	test_cmp expect actual
>> +'
>> +
>> +test_expect_success 'batch-command calling info works' '
>> +	echo "info $sha1" | git cat-file --batch-command >actual &&
>> +	echo "$sha1 blob $size" >expect &&
>> +	test_cmp expect actual
>> +'
>
> I had a quick look at this test file and there is a loop at the top that runs some --batch tests on various inputs, I wonder if these two tests could go in there.
>
>> +test_expect_success 'batch-command fflush works' '
>> +	printf "fflush\n" > cmd &&
>> +	test_expect_code 0 git cat-file --batch-command < cmd 2>err
>> +'
>
> It'd be nice to check this actually flushes the output.

could you give me some ideas on how to do this?

>
> Best Wishes
>
> Phillip
>
>>   test_done
John Cai Jan. 28, 2022, 4:16 a.m. UTC | #4
Resending this as my last message accidentally included some html and got rejected by the listserv


On 27 Jan 2022, at 16:04, John Cai wrote:

> Hey Phillip,
>
> First of all thank you for the thorough review—it really helps someone who’s learning how to contribute!
>
> On 27 Jan 2022, at 6:25, Phillip Wood wrote:
>
>> Hi John
>>
>> On 25/01/2022 22:50, John Cai wrote:
>>> This RFC patch proposes a new flag --stdin-cmd that works with
>>> git-cat-file --batch. Similar to git-update-ref --stdin, it will accept
>>> commands and arguments from stdin.
>>>
>>> The start of this idea was discussed in [1], where the original
>>> motivation was to be able to control when the buffer was flushed to
>>> stdout in --buffer mode.
>>>
>>> However, this can actually be much more useful in situations when
>>> git-cat-file --batch is being used as a long lived backend query
>>> process. At GitLab, we use a pair of cat-file processes. One for
>>> iterating over object metadata with --batch-check, and the other to grab
>>> object contents with --batch. However, if we had --stdin-cmd, we could
>>> get rid of the second --batch-check process, and just have one progress
>>> where we can flip between getting object info, and getting object contents.
>>> This can lead to huge savings.
>>>
>>> git cat-file --batch --stdin-cmd
>>>
>>> $ <command> [arg1] [arg2] NL
>>>
>>> We can also add a -z mode to allow for NUL-terminated lines
>>>
>>> $ <command> [arg1] [arg2] NUL
>>>
>>> This patch adds three commands: object, info, fflush
>>>
>>> $ object <sha1> NL
>>> $ info <sha1> NL
>>> $ fflush NL
>>>
>>> These three would be immediately useful in GitLab's context, but one can
>>> imagine this mode to be further extended for other things.
>>>
>>> For instance, a non-trivial part of "cat-file --batch" time is spent
>>> on parsing its argument and seeing if it's a revision, ref etc. So we
>>> could add a command that only accepts a full-length 40
>>> character SHA-1.
>>>
>>> This would be the first step in adding such an interface to
>>> git-cat-file.
>>>
>>> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.1124.git.git.1636149400.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/
>>>
>>> Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>> Changes from v1:
>>>
>>> - changed option name to batch-command.
>>> - changed command function interface to receive the whole line after the command
>>>    name to put the onus of parsing arguments to each individual command function.
>>> - pass in whole line to batch_one_object in both parse_cmd_object and
>>>    parse_cmd_info to support spaces in the object reference.
>>> - removed addition of -z to include in a separate patch series
>>> - added documentation.
>>
>> I've left some comments below, they're mostly small details, I like the new option name and the changes you've made to the command parsing.
>>
>>> ---
>>>   Documentation/git-cat-file.txt |  15 +++++
>>>   builtin/cat-file.c             | 114 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>>   strvec.c                       |  23 +++++++
>>>   strvec.h                       |   8 +++
>>>   t/t1006-cat-file.sh            |  32 +++++++++
>>>   5 files changed, 191 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
>>> index bef76f4dd0..8aefa45e4c 100644
>>> --- a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
>>> +++ b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
>>> @@ -96,6 +96,21 @@ OPTIONS
>>>   	need to specify the path, separated by whitespace.  See the
>>>   	section `BATCH OUTPUT` below for details.
>>>  +-batch-command::
>>
>> is this missing a '-'?
>>
>>> +	Enter a command mode that reads from stdin. May not be combined with any
>>> +	other options or arguments except `--textconv` or `--filters`, in which
>>> +	case the input lines also need to specify the path, separated by
>>> +	whitespace.  See the section `BATCH OUTPUT` below for details.
>>> +
>>> +object <object>::
>>> +	Print object contents for object reference <object>
>>> +
>>> +info <object>::
>>> +	Print object info for object reference <object>
>>> +
>>> +flush::
>>> +	Flush to stdout immediately when used with --buffer
>>> +
>>>   --batch-all-objects::
>>>   	Instead of reading a list of objects on stdin, perform the
>>>   	requested batch operation on all objects in the repository and
>>> diff --git a/builtin/cat-file.c b/builtin/cat-file.c
>>> index 7b3f42950e..30794284d5 100644
>>> --- a/builtin/cat-file.c
>>> +++ b/builtin/cat-file.c
>>> @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
>>>   #include "packfile.h"
>>>   #include "object-store.h"
>>>   #include "promisor-remote.h"
>>> +#include "strvec.h"
>>>    struct batch_options {
>>>   	int enabled;
>>> @@ -26,7 +27,10 @@ struct batch_options {
>>>   	int unordered;
>>>   	int cmdmode; /* may be 'w' or 'c' for --filters or --textconv */
>>>   	const char *format;
>>> +	int stdin_cmd;
>>
>> Now that the option has been renamed it would be nice to rename the corresponding variable to match
>
> I was trying to find a good name. There is already a cmdmode variable. I’m thinking stdin_cmd is not such a
> bad name since we are receiving commands from stdin. suggestions welcome!
>
>>
>>> +	int end_null;
>>
>> If you're not adding '-z' here then you don't need this or the addition below.
>>
>>>   };
>>> +static char line_termination = '\n';
>>>    static const char *force_path;
>>>  @@ -508,6 +512,102 @@ static int batch_unordered_packed(const struct object_id *oid,
>>>   				      data);
>>>   }
>>>  +enum batch_state {
>>> +	/* Non-transactional state open for commands. */
>>> +	BATCH_STATE_OPEN,
>>> +};
>>
>> I forgot to ask what the idea behind the batch state is last time - what's it for?
>
> This is to support transactional semantics for commands we want to support in the future, but
> since this is already a biggish change, we can leave this out of this series.
>
>>
>>> +static void parse_cmd_object(struct batch_options *opt,
>>> +			     const char *line,
>>> +			     struct strbuf *output,
>>> +			     struct expand_data *data)
>>> +{
>>> +	opt->print_contents = 1;
>>> +	batch_one_object(line, output, opt, data);
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> +static void parse_cmd_info(struct batch_options *opt,
>>> +			   const char *line,
>>> +			   struct strbuf *output,
>>> +			   struct expand_data *data)
>>> +{
>>> +	opt->print_contents = 0;
>>> +	batch_one_object(line, output, opt, data);
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> +static void parse_cmd_fflush(struct batch_options *opt,
>>> +			     const char *line,
>>> +			     struct strbuf *output,
>>> +			     struct expand_data *data)
>>> +{
>>> +	fflush(stdout);
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> +typedef void (*parse_cmd_fn_t)(struct batch_options *, const char *,
>>> +			       struct strbuf *, struct expand_data *);
>>> +
>>> +static const struct parse_cmd {
>>> +	const char *prefix;
>>> +	parse_cmd_fn_t fn;
>>> +	unsigned args;
>>
>> This is now a flag so maybe 'takes_args' would better describe its purpose.
>>
>>> +	enum batch_state state;
>>> +} commands[] = {
>>> +	{ "object", parse_cmd_object, 1, BATCH_STATE_OPEN },
>>> +	{ "info", parse_cmd_info, 1, BATCH_STATE_OPEN },
>>> +	{ "fflush", parse_cmd_fflush, 0, BATCH_STATE_OPEN },
>>> +};
>>> +
>>> +static void batch_objects_stdin_cmd(struct batch_options *opt,
>>> +				    struct strbuf *output,
>>> +				    struct expand_data *data)
>>> +{
>>> +	struct strbuf input = STRBUF_INIT;
>>> +	enum batch_state state = BATCH_STATE_OPEN;
>>> +
>>> +	/* Read each line dispatch its command */
>>> +	while (!strbuf_getwholeline(&input, stdin, line_termination)) {
>>> +		int i;
>>> +		const struct parse_cmd *cmd = NULL;
>>> +		const char *p;
>>> +
>>> +		if (*input.buf == line_termination)
>>> +			die("empty command in input");
>>> +		else if (isspace(*input.buf))
>>> +			die("whitespace before command: %s", input.buf);
>>> +
>>> +		for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(commands); i++) {
>>> +			const char *prefix = commands[i].prefix;
>>> +			char c;
>>> +			const char *cmd_name;
>>
>> skip_prefix() sets this to the end of the name so maybe 'cmd_end' would be clearer?
>>
>>> +			if (!skip_prefix(input.buf, prefix, &cmd_name))
>>> +				continue;
>>> +			/*
>>> +			 * If the command has arguments, verify that it's
>>> +			 * followed by a space. Otherwise, it shall be followed
>>> +			 * by a line terminator.
>>> +			 */
>>> +			c = commands[i].args ? ' ' : line_termination;
>>> +			if (input.buf[strlen(prefix)] != c)
>>
>> Now that you're using skip_prefix() you can write this as
>>     		if (*cmd_end != c)
>>
>>> +				continue;
>>> +
>>> +			cmd = &commands[i];
>>> +			break;
>>> +		}
>>> +		if (!cmd)
>>> +			die("unknown command: %s", input.buf);
>>> +
>>> +		p = input.buf + strlen(cmd->prefix) + 1;
>>
>> This can be simplified to
>>     	p = cmd_end + 1;
>>
>>> +		const char *pos = strstr(p, &line_termination);
>>
>> This isn't needed without '-z'. If it were required then using strchrnul() would prevent a NULL pointer dereference when the last input line does not end with a terminator. I think we typically call a pointer to the end of the line 'eol' or 'end'. Also variables should be declared at the top of the function.
>>
>>> +		switch (state) {
>>> +		case BATCH_STATE_OPEN:
>>> +			break;
>>> +		}
>>> +		cmd->fn(opt, xstrndup(p, pos-p), output, data);
>>
>> Is there a reason this is passing a copy of the string?
>>
>>> +	}
>>> +	strbuf_release(&input);
>>> +}
>>> +
>>>   static int batch_objects(struct batch_options *opt)
>>>   {
>>>   	struct strbuf input = STRBUF_INIT;
>>> @@ -515,6 +615,7 @@ static int batch_objects(struct batch_options *opt)
>>>   	struct expand_data data;
>>>   	int save_warning;
>>>   	int retval = 0;
>>> +	const int stdin_cmd = opt->stdin_cmd;
>>>    	if (!opt->format)
>>>   		opt->format = "%(objectname) %(objecttype) %(objectsize)";
>>> @@ -590,7 +691,8 @@ static int batch_objects(struct batch_options *opt)
>>>   	save_warning = warn_on_object_refname_ambiguity;
>>>   	warn_on_object_refname_ambiguity = 0;
>>>  -	while (strbuf_getline(&input, stdin) != EOF) {
>>> +	while (!stdin_cmd &&
>>
>> If you moved the 'if (stdin_cmd)' block above this block we could loose this change. I'm not sure if that is possible without looking at the whole function though.
>>
>>> +	       strbuf_getline(&input, stdin) != EOF) {
>>>   		if (data.split_on_whitespace) {
>>>   			/*
>>>   			 * Split at first whitespace, tying off the beginning
>>> @@ -608,6 +710,9 @@ static int batch_objects(struct batch_options *opt)
>>>   		batch_one_object(input.buf, &output, opt, &data);
>>>   	}
>>>  +	if (stdin_cmd)
>>> +		batch_objects_stdin_cmd(opt, &output, &data);
>>> +
>>>   	strbuf_release(&input);
>>>   	strbuf_release(&output);
>>>   	warn_on_object_refname_ambiguity = save_warning;
>>> @@ -636,6 +741,7 @@ static int batch_option_callback(const struct option *opt,
>>>    	bo->enabled = 1;
>>>   	bo->print_contents = !strcmp(opt->long_name, "batch");
>>> +	bo->stdin_cmd = !strcmp(opt->long_name, "batch-command");
>>>   	bo->format = arg;
>>>    	return 0;
>>> @@ -683,6 +789,10 @@ int cmd_cat_file(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>>>   			N_("like --batch, but don't emit <contents>"),
>>>   			PARSE_OPT_OPTARG | PARSE_OPT_NONEG,
>>>   			batch_option_callback),
>>> +		OPT_CALLBACK_F(0, "batch-command", &batch, N_(""),
>>> +			 N_("enters batch mode that accepts commands"),
>>> +			 PARSE_OPT_NOARG | PARSE_OPT_NONEG,
>>> +			 batch_option_callback),
>>>   		OPT_CMDMODE(0, "batch-all-objects", &opt,
>>>   			    N_("with --batch[-check]: ignores stdin, batches all known objects"), 'b'),
>>>   		/* Batch-specific options */
>>> @@ -738,6 +848,8 @@ int cmd_cat_file(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>>>   	/* Batch defaults */
>>>   	if (batch.buffer_output < 0)
>>>   		batch.buffer_output = batch.all_objects;
>>> +	if (batch.end_null)
>>> +		line_termination = '\0';
>>>    	/* Return early if we're in batch mode? */
>>>   	if (batch.enabled) {
>>> diff --git a/strvec.c b/strvec.c
>>> index 61a76ce6cb..7dca04bf7a 100644
>>> --- a/strvec.c
>>> +++ b/strvec.c
>>> [...]
>>
>> We don't need any strvec changes now that we don't split the input lines to --bactch-command
>>
>>> +F='%s\0'
>>
>> This isn't used now
>>
>>> +test_expect_success 'batch-command unknown command' '
>>> +	echo unknown_command >cmd &&
>>> +	test_expect_code 128 git cat-file --batch-command < cmd 2>err &&
>>> +	grep -E "^fatal:.*unknown command.*" err
>>> +'
>>> +
>>> +test_expect_success 'setup object data' '
>>> +	content="Object Data" &&
>>> +	size=$(strlen "$content") &&
>>> +	sha1=$(echo_without_newline "$content" | git hash-object -w --stdin)
>>> +'
>>> +
>>> +test_expect_success 'batch-command calling object works' '
>>> +	echo "object $sha1" | git cat-file --batch-command >actual &&
>>> +	echo "$sha1 blob $size" >expect &&
>>> +	echo `git cat-file -p "$sha1"` >>expect &&
>>> +	test_cmp expect actual
>>> +'
>>> +
>>> +test_expect_success 'batch-command calling info works' '
>>> +	echo "info $sha1" | git cat-file --batch-command >actual &&
>>> +	echo "$sha1 blob $size" >expect &&
>>> +	test_cmp expect actual
>>> +'
>>
>> I had a quick look at this test file and there is a loop at the top that runs some --batch tests on various inputs, I wonder if these two tests could go in there.
>>
>>> +test_expect_success 'batch-command fflush works' '
>>> +	printf "fflush\n" > cmd &&
>>> +	test_expect_code 0 git cat-file --batch-command < cmd 2>err
>>> +'
>>
>> It'd be nice to check this actually flushes the output.
>
> could you give me some ideas on how to do this?

Ok, after filling around I think it can be something like this (copied over from an example in t9300-fast-import.sh

run_buffer_test () {
	type=$1
	sha1=$2
	size=$3

	mkfifo V.input
	exec 8<>V.input
	rm V.input

	mkfifo V.output
	exec 9<>V.output
	rm V.output
	
	(
		git cat-file --buffer --batch-command <&8 >&9 &
		echo $! >&9 &&
		wait $!
	) &
	sh_pid=$!
	read fi_pid <&9
	test_when_finished "
		exec 8>&-; exec 9>&-;
		kill $sh_pid && wait $sh_pid
		kill $fi_pid && wait $fi_pid
		true"
	expect=$(echo "$sha1 $type $size")
	echo "info $sha1" >&8
	echo "fflush" >&8
	read actual <&9
	test "$actual" = "$expect"
}

Not sure if there's a simpler way since we need to simulate writing to and reading from the process.

Thanks

>
>>
>> Best Wishes
>>
>> Phillip
>>
>>>   test_done
Eric Wong Jan. 28, 2022, 6:07 a.m. UTC | #5
John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com> wrote:
> This RFC patch proposes a new flag --stdin-cmd that works with
> git-cat-file --batch. Similar to git-update-ref --stdin, it will accept
> commands and arguments from stdin.
> 
> The start of this idea was discussed in [1], where the original
> motivation was to be able to control when the buffer was flushed to
> stdout in --buffer mode.
> 
> However, this can actually be much more useful in situations when
> git-cat-file --batch is being used as a long lived backend query
> process. At GitLab, we use a pair of cat-file processes. One for
> iterating over object metadata with --batch-check, and the other to grab
> object contents with --batch. However, if we had --stdin-cmd, we could
> get rid of the second --batch-check process, and just have one progress
> where we can flip between getting object info, and getting object contents.
> This can lead to huge savings.

Cool.  I wish I had this back when I worked on a project which uses git.
In case I ever continue, having 2-3 features in git itself would be useful:

1) ability to add new alternates / object directories on-the-fly
2) ability to deal with unlinked packs

And maybe:

3) ability to remove alternates

I've implemented 1 and 2 via libgit2; but not yet 3 (not really
important, atm).

Thanks.
diff mbox series

Patch

diff --git a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
index bef76f4dd0..8aefa45e4c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
@@ -96,6 +96,21 @@  OPTIONS
 	need to specify the path, separated by whitespace.  See the
 	section `BATCH OUTPUT` below for details.
 
+-batch-command::
+	Enter a command mode that reads from stdin. May not be combined with any
+	other options or arguments except `--textconv` or `--filters`, in which
+	case the input lines also need to specify the path, separated by
+	whitespace.  See the section `BATCH OUTPUT` below for details.
+
+object <object>::
+	Print object contents for object reference <object>
+
+info <object>::
+	Print object info for object reference <object>
+
+flush::
+	Flush to stdout immediately when used with --buffer
+
 --batch-all-objects::
 	Instead of reading a list of objects on stdin, perform the
 	requested batch operation on all objects in the repository and
diff --git a/builtin/cat-file.c b/builtin/cat-file.c
index 7b3f42950e..30794284d5 100644
--- a/builtin/cat-file.c
+++ b/builtin/cat-file.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ 
 #include "packfile.h"
 #include "object-store.h"
 #include "promisor-remote.h"
+#include "strvec.h"
 
 struct batch_options {
 	int enabled;
@@ -26,7 +27,10 @@  struct batch_options {
 	int unordered;
 	int cmdmode; /* may be 'w' or 'c' for --filters or --textconv */
 	const char *format;
+	int stdin_cmd;
+	int end_null;
 };
+static char line_termination = '\n';
 
 static const char *force_path;
 
@@ -508,6 +512,102 @@  static int batch_unordered_packed(const struct object_id *oid,
 				      data);
 }
 
+enum batch_state {
+	/* Non-transactional state open for commands. */
+	BATCH_STATE_OPEN,
+};
+
+static void parse_cmd_object(struct batch_options *opt,
+			     const char *line,
+			     struct strbuf *output,
+			     struct expand_data *data)
+{
+	opt->print_contents = 1;
+	batch_one_object(line, output, opt, data);
+}
+
+static void parse_cmd_info(struct batch_options *opt,
+			   const char *line,
+			   struct strbuf *output,
+			   struct expand_data *data)
+{
+	opt->print_contents = 0;
+	batch_one_object(line, output, opt, data);
+}
+
+static void parse_cmd_fflush(struct batch_options *opt,
+			     const char *line,
+			     struct strbuf *output,
+			     struct expand_data *data)
+{
+	fflush(stdout);
+}
+
+typedef void (*parse_cmd_fn_t)(struct batch_options *, const char *,
+			       struct strbuf *, struct expand_data *);
+
+static const struct parse_cmd {
+	const char *prefix;
+	parse_cmd_fn_t fn;
+	unsigned args;
+	enum batch_state state;
+} commands[] = {
+	{ "object", parse_cmd_object, 1, BATCH_STATE_OPEN },
+	{ "info", parse_cmd_info, 1, BATCH_STATE_OPEN },
+	{ "fflush", parse_cmd_fflush, 0, BATCH_STATE_OPEN },
+};
+
+static void batch_objects_stdin_cmd(struct batch_options *opt,
+				    struct strbuf *output,
+				    struct expand_data *data)
+{
+	struct strbuf input = STRBUF_INIT;
+	enum batch_state state = BATCH_STATE_OPEN;
+
+	/* Read each line dispatch its command */
+	while (!strbuf_getwholeline(&input, stdin, line_termination)) {
+		int i;
+		const struct parse_cmd *cmd = NULL;
+		const char *p;
+
+		if (*input.buf == line_termination)
+			die("empty command in input");
+		else if (isspace(*input.buf))
+			die("whitespace before command: %s", input.buf);
+
+		for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(commands); i++) {
+			const char *prefix = commands[i].prefix;
+			char c;
+			const char *cmd_name;
+			if (!skip_prefix(input.buf, prefix, &cmd_name))
+				continue;
+			/*
+			 * If the command has arguments, verify that it's
+			 * followed by a space. Otherwise, it shall be followed
+			 * by a line terminator.
+			 */
+			c = commands[i].args ? ' ' : line_termination;
+			if (input.buf[strlen(prefix)] != c)
+				continue;
+
+			cmd = &commands[i];
+			break;
+		}
+		if (!cmd)
+			die("unknown command: %s", input.buf);
+
+		p = input.buf + strlen(cmd->prefix) + 1;
+		const char *pos = strstr(p, &line_termination);
+
+		switch (state) {
+		case BATCH_STATE_OPEN:
+			break;
+		}
+		cmd->fn(opt, xstrndup(p, pos-p), output, data);
+	}
+	strbuf_release(&input);
+}
+
 static int batch_objects(struct batch_options *opt)
 {
 	struct strbuf input = STRBUF_INIT;
@@ -515,6 +615,7 @@  static int batch_objects(struct batch_options *opt)
 	struct expand_data data;
 	int save_warning;
 	int retval = 0;
+	const int stdin_cmd = opt->stdin_cmd;
 
 	if (!opt->format)
 		opt->format = "%(objectname) %(objecttype) %(objectsize)";
@@ -590,7 +691,8 @@  static int batch_objects(struct batch_options *opt)
 	save_warning = warn_on_object_refname_ambiguity;
 	warn_on_object_refname_ambiguity = 0;
 
-	while (strbuf_getline(&input, stdin) != EOF) {
+	while (!stdin_cmd &&
+	       strbuf_getline(&input, stdin) != EOF) {
 		if (data.split_on_whitespace) {
 			/*
 			 * Split at first whitespace, tying off the beginning
@@ -608,6 +710,9 @@  static int batch_objects(struct batch_options *opt)
 		batch_one_object(input.buf, &output, opt, &data);
 	}
 
+	if (stdin_cmd)
+		batch_objects_stdin_cmd(opt, &output, &data);
+
 	strbuf_release(&input);
 	strbuf_release(&output);
 	warn_on_object_refname_ambiguity = save_warning;
@@ -636,6 +741,7 @@  static int batch_option_callback(const struct option *opt,
 
 	bo->enabled = 1;
 	bo->print_contents = !strcmp(opt->long_name, "batch");
+	bo->stdin_cmd = !strcmp(opt->long_name, "batch-command");
 	bo->format = arg;
 
 	return 0;
@@ -683,6 +789,10 @@  int cmd_cat_file(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 			N_("like --batch, but don't emit <contents>"),
 			PARSE_OPT_OPTARG | PARSE_OPT_NONEG,
 			batch_option_callback),
+		OPT_CALLBACK_F(0, "batch-command", &batch, N_(""),
+			 N_("enters batch mode that accepts commands"),
+			 PARSE_OPT_NOARG | PARSE_OPT_NONEG,
+			 batch_option_callback),
 		OPT_CMDMODE(0, "batch-all-objects", &opt,
 			    N_("with --batch[-check]: ignores stdin, batches all known objects"), 'b'),
 		/* Batch-specific options */
@@ -738,6 +848,8 @@  int cmd_cat_file(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	/* Batch defaults */
 	if (batch.buffer_output < 0)
 		batch.buffer_output = batch.all_objects;
+	if (batch.end_null)
+		line_termination = '\0';
 
 	/* Return early if we're in batch mode? */
 	if (batch.enabled) {
diff --git a/strvec.c b/strvec.c
index 61a76ce6cb..7dca04bf7a 100644
--- a/strvec.c
+++ b/strvec.c
@@ -85,6 +85,29 @@  void strvec_split(struct strvec *array, const char *to_split)
 	}
 }
 
+size_t strvec_split_delim(struct strvec *array, const char *string,
+			  int delim, int maxsplit)
+{
+	size_t count = 0;
+	const char *p = string, *end;
+
+	for (;;) {
+		count++;
+		if (maxsplit >= 0 && count > maxsplit) {
+			strvec_push(array, p);
+			return count;
+		}
+		end = strchr(p, delim);
+		if (end) {
+			strvec_push_nodup(array, xmemdupz(p, end - p));
+			p = end + 1;
+		} else {
+			strvec_push(array, p);
+			return count;
+		}
+	}
+}
+
 void strvec_clear(struct strvec *array)
 {
 	if (array->v != empty_strvec) {
diff --git a/strvec.h b/strvec.h
index 9f55c8766b..c474918b91 100644
--- a/strvec.h
+++ b/strvec.h
@@ -73,6 +73,14 @@  void strvec_pop(struct strvec *);
 /* Splits by whitespace; does not handle quoted arguments! */
 void strvec_split(struct strvec *, const char *);
 
+/**
+ * strvec_split_delim() is a split function that behaves more like its
+ * string_list_split() cousin than the whitespace-splitting
+ * strvec_split().
+ */
+size_t strvec_split_delim(struct strvec *array, const char *string,
+			  int delim, int maxsplit);
+
 /**
  * Free all memory associated with the array and return it to the
  * initial, empty state.
diff --git a/t/t1006-cat-file.sh b/t/t1006-cat-file.sh
index 145eee11df..935ab1cd34 100755
--- a/t/t1006-cat-file.sh
+++ b/t/t1006-cat-file.sh
@@ -964,4 +964,36 @@  test_expect_success 'cat-file --batch-all-objects --batch-check ignores replace'
 	test_cmp expect actual
 '
 
+F='%s\0'
+
+test_expect_success 'batch-command unknown command' '
+	echo unknown_command >cmd &&
+	test_expect_code 128 git cat-file --batch-command < cmd 2>err &&
+	grep -E "^fatal:.*unknown command.*" err
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'setup object data' '
+	content="Object Data" &&
+	size=$(strlen "$content") &&
+	sha1=$(echo_without_newline "$content" | git hash-object -w --stdin)
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'batch-command calling object works' '
+	echo "object $sha1" | git cat-file --batch-command >actual &&
+	echo "$sha1 blob $size" >expect &&
+	echo `git cat-file -p "$sha1"` >>expect &&
+	test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'batch-command calling info works' '
+	echo "info $sha1" | git cat-file --batch-command >actual &&
+	echo "$sha1 blob $size" >expect &&
+	test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'batch-command fflush works' '
+	printf "fflush\n" > cmd &&
+	test_expect_code 0 git cat-file --batch-command < cmd 2>err
+'
+
 test_done