pkt-line: add delim packet support

bmwill · gitster · commit a4cfd41c7be8 · 2018-03-14T14:15:06.000-07:00
One of the design goals of protocol-v2 is to improve the semantics of
flush packets.  Currently in protocol-v1, flush packets are used both to
indicate a break in a list of packet lines as well as an indication that
one side has finished speaking.  This makes it particularly difficult
to implement proxies as a proxy would need to completely understand git
protocol instead of simply looking for a flush packet.

To do this, introduce the special deliminator packet '0001'.  A delim
packet can then be used as a deliminator between lists of packet lines
while flush packets can be reserved to indicate the end of a response.

Documentation for how this packet will be used in protocol v2 will
included in a future patch.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams &lt;bmwill@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
diff --git a/pkt-line.c b/pkt-line.c
@@ -91,6 +91,12 @@ void packet_flush(int fd)
 	write_or_die(fd, "0000", 4);
 }
 
+void packet_delim(int fd)
+{
+	packet_trace("0001", 4, 1);
+	write_or_die(fd, "0001", 4);
+}
+
 int packet_flush_gently(int fd)
 {
 	packet_trace("0000", 4, 1);
@@ -105,6 +111,12 @@ void packet_buf_flush(struct strbuf *buf)
 	strbuf_add(buf, "0000", 4);
 }
 
+void packet_buf_delim(struct strbuf *buf)
+{
+	packet_trace("0001", 4, 1);
+	strbuf_add(buf, "0001", 4);
+}
+
 static void set_packet_header(char *buf, const int size)
 {
 	static char hexchar[] = "0123456789abcdef";
@@ -301,6 +313,10 @@ enum packet_read_status packet_read_with_status(int fd, char **src_buffer,
 		packet_trace("0000", 4, 0);
 		*pktlen = 0;
 		return PACKET_READ_FLUSH;
+	} else if (len == 1) {
+		packet_trace("0001", 4, 0);
+		*pktlen = 0;
+		return PACKET_READ_DELIM;
 	} else if (len < 4) {
 		die("protocol error: bad line length %d", len);
 	}
diff --git a/pkt-line.h b/pkt-line.h
@@ -20,8 +20,10 @@
  * side can't, we stay with pure read/write interfaces.
  */
 void packet_flush(int fd);
+void packet_delim(int fd);
 void packet_write_fmt(int fd, const char *fmt, ...) __attribute__((format (printf, 2, 3)));
 void packet_buf_flush(struct strbuf *buf);
+void packet_buf_delim(struct strbuf *buf);
 void packet_write(int fd_out, const char *buf, size_t size);
 void packet_buf_write(struct strbuf *buf, const char *fmt, ...) __attribute__((format (printf, 2, 3)));
 int packet_flush_gently(int fd);
@@ -75,6 +77,7 @@ enum packet_read_status {
 	PACKET_READ_EOF,
 	PACKET_READ_NORMAL,
 	PACKET_READ_FLUSH,
+	PACKET_READ_DELIM,
 };
 enum packet_read_status packet_read_with_status(int fd, char **src_buffer,
 						size_t *src_len, char *buffer,
