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# remote.py
# Copyright (C) 2008, 2009 Michael Trier (mtrier@gmail.com) and contributors
#
# This module is part of GitPython and is released under
# the BSD License: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php
"""Module implementing a remote object allowing easy access to git remotes"""

from errors import GitCommandError
from git.utils import LazyMixin, Iterable, IterableList
from objects import Commit
from refs import Reference, RemoteReference, SymbolicReference, TagReference

import re
import os

class _SectionConstraint(object):
    """
    Constrains a ConfigParser to only option commands which are constrained to 
    always use the section we have been initialized with.
    
    It supports all ConfigParser methods that operate on an option
    """
    __slots__ = ("_config", "_section_name")
    _valid_attrs_ = ("get_value", "set_value", "get", "set", "getint", "getfloat", "getboolean", "has_option")
    
    def __init__(self, config, section):
        self._config = config
        self._section_name = section
        
    def __getattr__(self, attr):
        if attr in self._valid_attrs_:
            return lambda *args, **kwargs: self._call_config(attr, *args, **kwargs)
        return super(_SectionConstraint,self).__getattribute__(attr)
        
    def _call_config(self, method, *args, **kwargs):
        """Call the configuration at the given method which must take a section name 
        as first argument"""
        return getattr(self._config, method)(self._section_name, *args, **kwargs)
        
        
class RemoteProgress(object):
    """
    Handler providing an interface to parse progress information emitted by git-push
    and git-fetch and to dispatch callbacks allowing subclasses to react to the progress.
    """
    BEGIN, END, COUNTING, COMPRESSING, WRITING =  [ 1 << x for x in range(5) ]
    STAGE_MASK = BEGIN|END
    OP_MASK = COUNTING|COMPRESSING|WRITING
    
    __slots__ = ("_cur_line", "_seen_ops")
    re_op_absolute = re.compile("(remote: )?([\w\s]+):\s+()(\d+)()(.*)")
    re_op_relative = re.compile("(remote: )?([\w\s]+):\s+(\d+)% \((\d+)/(\d+)\)(.*)")
    
    def __init__(self):
        self._seen_ops = list()
    
    def _parse_progress_line(self, line):
        """
        Parse progress information from the given line as retrieved by git-push
        or git-fetch 
        @return: list(line, ...) list of lines that could not be processed"""
        # handle
        # Counting objects: 4, done. 
        # Compressing objects:  50% (1/2)   \rCompressing objects: 100% (2/2)   \rCompressing objects: 100% (2/2), done.
        self._cur_line = line
        sub_lines = line.split('\r')
        failed_lines = list()
        for sline in sub_lines:
            # find esacpe characters and cut them away - regex will not work with 
            # them as they are non-ascii. As git might expect a tty, it will send them
            last_valid_index = None
            for i,c in enumerate(reversed(sline)):
                if ord(c) < 32:
                    # its a slice index
                    last_valid_index = -i-1 
                # END character was non-ascii
            # END for each character in sline
            if last_valid_index is not None:
                sline = sline[:last_valid_index]
            # END cut away invalid part
            sline = sline.rstrip()
            
            cur_count, max_count = None, None
            match = self.re_op_relative.match(sline)
            if match is None:
                match = self.re_op_absolute.match(sline)
                
            if not match:
                self.line_dropped(sline)
                failed_lines.append(sline)
                continue
            # END could not get match
            
            op_code = 0
            remote, op_name, percent, cur_count, max_count, message = match.groups()
            
            # get operation id
            if op_name == "Counting objects":
                op_code |= self.COUNTING
            elif op_name == "Compressing objects":
                op_code |= self.COMPRESSING
            elif op_name == "Writing objects":
                op_code |= self.WRITING
            else:
                raise ValueError("Operation name %r unknown" % op_name)
            
            # figure out stage
            if op_code not in self._seen_ops:
                self._seen_ops.append(op_code)
                op_code |= self.BEGIN
            # END begin opcode
            
            if message is None:
                message = ''
            # END message handling
            
            message = message.strip()
            done_token = ', done.'
            if message.endswith(done_token):
                op_code |= self.END
                message = message[:-len(done_token)]
            # END end message handling
            
            self.update(op_code, cur_count, max_count, message)
        # END for each sub line
        return failed_lines
    
    def line_dropped(self, line):
        """
        Called whenever a line could not be understood and was therefore dropped.
        """
        pass
    
    def update(self, op_code, cur_count, max_count=None, message=''):
        """
        Called whenever the progress changes
        
        ``op_code``
            Integer allowing to be compared against Operation IDs and stage IDs.
            
            Stage IDs are BEGIN and END. BEGIN will only be set once for each Operation 
            ID as well as END. It may be that BEGIN and END are set at once in case only
            one progress message was emitted due to the speed of the operation.
            Between BEGIN and END, none of these flags will be set
            
            Operation IDs are all held within the OP_MASK. Only one Operation ID will 
            be active per call.
            
        ``cur_count``
            Current absolute count of items
            
        ``max_count``
            The maximum count of items we expect. It may be None in case there is 
            no maximum number of items or if it is (yet) unknown.
        
        ``message``
            In case of the 'WRITING' operation, it contains the amount of bytes
            transferred. It may possibly be used for other purposes as well.
        
        You may read the contents of the current line in self._cur_line
        """
        pass
        
        
class PushInfo(object):
    """
    Carries information about the result of a push operation of a single head::
    
        info = remote.push()[0]
        info.flags          # bitflags providing more information about the result
        info.local_ref      # Reference pointing to the local reference that was pushed
                            # It is None if the ref was deleted.
        info.remote_ref_string # path to the remote reference located on the remote side
        info.remote_ref # Remote Reference on the local side corresponding to 
                        # the remote_ref_string. It can be a TagReference as well.
        info.old_commit # commit at which the remote_ref was standing before we pushed
                        # it to local_ref.commit. Will be None if an error was indicated
        info.summary    # summary line providing human readable english text about the push
    
    """
    __slots__ = ('local_ref', 'remote_ref_string', 'flags', 'old_commit', '_remote', 'summary')
    
    NEW_TAG, NEW_HEAD, NO_MATCH, REJECTED, REMOTE_REJECTED, REMOTE_FAILURE, DELETED, \
    FORCED_UPDATE, FAST_FORWARD, UP_TO_DATE, ERROR = [ 1 << x for x in range(11) ]

    _flag_map = {   'X' : NO_MATCH, '-' : DELETED, '*' : 0,
                    '+' : FORCED_UPDATE, ' ' : FAST_FORWARD, 
                    '=' : UP_TO_DATE, '!' : ERROR }
    
    def __init__(self, flags, local_ref, remote_ref_string, remote, old_commit=None, 
                    summary=''):
        """
        Initialize a new instance
        """
        self.flags = flags
        self.local_ref = local_ref
        self.remote_ref_string = remote_ref_string
        self._remote = remote
        self.old_commit = old_commit
        self.summary = summary
        
    @property
    def remote_ref(self):
        """
        Returns
            Remote Reference or TagReference in the local repository corresponding 
            to the remote_ref_string kept in this instance.
        """
        # translate heads to a local remote, tags stay as they are
        if self.remote_ref_string.startswith("refs/tags"):
            return TagReference(self._remote.repo, self.remote_ref_string)
        elif self.remote_ref_string.startswith("refs/heads"):
            remote_ref = Reference(self._remote.repo, self.remote_ref_string)
            return RemoteReference(self._remote.repo, "refs/remotes/%s/%s" % (str(self._remote), remote_ref.name))
        else:
            raise ValueError("Could not handle remote ref: %r" % self.remote_ref_string)
        # END 
        
    @classmethod
    def _from_line(cls, remote, line):
        """
        Create a new PushInfo instance as parsed from line which is expected to be like
        c   refs/heads/master:refs/heads/master 05d2687..1d0568e
        """
        control_character, from_to, summary = line.split('\t', 3)
        flags = 0
        
        # control character handling
        try:
            flags |= cls._flag_map[ control_character ]
        except KeyError:
            raise ValueError("Control Character %r unknown as parsed from line %r" % (control_character, line)) 
        # END handle control character
        
        # from_to handling
        from_ref_string, to_ref_string = from_to.split(':')
        if flags & cls.DELETED:
            from_ref = None
        else:
            from_ref = Reference.from_path(remote.repo, from_ref_string)
        
        # commit handling, could be message or commit info
        old_commit = None
        if summary.startswith('['):
            if "[rejected]" in summary:
                flags |= cls.REJECTED
            elif "[remote rejected]" in summary:
                flags |= cls.REMOTE_REJECTED
            elif "[remote failure]" in summary:
                flags |= cls.REMOTE_FAILURE
            elif "[no match]" in summary:
                flags |= cls.ERROR
            elif "[new tag]" in summary:
                flags |= cls.NEW_TAG
            elif "[new branch]" in summary:
                flags |= cls.NEW_HEAD
            # uptodate encoded in control character
        else:
            # fast-forward or forced update - was encoded in control character, 
            # but we parse the old and new commit
            split_token = "..."
            if control_character == " ":
                split_token = ".."
            old_sha, new_sha = summary.split(' ')[0].split(split_token)
            old_commit = Commit(remote.repo, old_sha)
        # END message handling
        
        return PushInfo(flags, from_ref, to_ref_string, remote, old_commit, summary)
        

class FetchInfo(object):
    """
    Carries information about the results of a fetch operation of a single head::
    
     info = remote.fetch()[0]
     info.ref           # Symbolic Reference or RemoteReference to the changed 
                        # remote head or FETCH_HEAD
     info.flags         # additional flags to be & with enumeration members, 
                        # i.e. info.flags & info.REJECTED 
                        # is 0 if ref is SymbolicReference
     info.note          # additional notes given by git-fetch intended for the user
     info.old_commit    # if info.flags & info.FORCED_UPDATE|info.FAST_FORWARD, 
                        # field is set to the previous location of ref, otherwise None
    """
    __slots__ = ('ref','old_commit', 'flags', 'note')
    
    NEW_TAG, NEW_HEAD, HEAD_UPTODATE, TAG_UPDATE, REJECTED, FORCED_UPDATE, \
    FAST_FORWARD, ERROR = [ 1 << x for x in range(8) ]
    
    #                             %c    %-*s %-*s             -> %s       (%s)
    re_fetch_result = re.compile("^\s*(.) (\[?[\w\s\.]+\]?)\s+(.+) -> ([/\w_\.-]+)(  \(.*\)?$)?")
    
    _flag_map = {   '!' : ERROR, '+' : FORCED_UPDATE, '-' : TAG_UPDATE, '*' : 0,
                    '=' : HEAD_UPTODATE, ' ' : FAST_FORWARD } 
    
    def __init__(self, ref, flags, note = '', old_commit = None):
        """
        Initialize a new instance
        """
        self.ref = ref
        self.flags = flags
        self.note = note
        self.old_commit = old_commit
        
    def __str__(self):
        return self.name
        
    @property
    def name(self):
        """
        Returns
            Name of our remote ref
        """
        return self.ref.name
        
    @property
    def commit(self):
        """
        Returns
            Commit of our remote ref
        """
        return self.ref.commit
        
    @classmethod
    def _from_line(cls, repo, line, fetch_line):
        """
        Parse information from the given line as returned by git-fetch -v
        and return a new FetchInfo object representing this information.
        
        We can handle a line as follows
        "%c %-*s %-*s -> %s%s"
        
        Where c is either ' ', !, +, -, *, or =
        ! means error
        + means success forcing update
        - means a tag was updated
        * means birth of new branch or tag
        = means the head was up to date ( and not moved )
        ' ' means a fast-forward
        
        fetch line is the corresponding line from FETCH_HEAD, like
        acb0fa8b94ef421ad60c8507b634759a472cd56c    not-for-merge   branch '0.1.7RC' of /tmp/tmpya0vairemote_repo
        """
        match = cls.re_fetch_result.match(line)
        if match is None:
            raise ValueError("Failed to parse line: %r" % line)
            
        # parse lines
        control_character, operation, local_remote_ref, remote_local_ref, note = match.groups()
        try:
            new_hex_sha, fetch_operation, fetch_note = fetch_line.split("\t")
            ref_type_name, fetch_note = fetch_note.split(' ', 1)
        except ValueError:  # unpack error
            raise ValueError("Failed to parse FETCH__HEAD line: %r" % fetch_line)
        
        # handle FETCH_HEAD and figure out ref type
        # If we do not specify a target branch like master:refs/remotes/origin/master, 
        # the fetch result is stored in FETCH_HEAD which destroys the rule we usually
        # have. In that case we use a symbolic reference which is detached 
        ref_type = None
        if remote_local_ref == "FETCH_HEAD":
            ref_type = SymbolicReference
        elif ref_type_name  == "branch":
            ref_type = RemoteReference
        elif ref_type_name == "tag":
            ref_type = TagReference
        else:
            raise TypeError("Cannot handle reference type: %r" % ref_type_name)
            
        # create ref instance
        if ref_type is SymbolicReference:
            remote_local_ref = ref_type(repo, "FETCH_HEAD") 
        else:
            remote_local_ref = Reference.from_path(repo, os.path.join(ref_type._common_path_default, remote_local_ref.strip()))
        # END create ref instance 
        
        note = ( note and note.strip() ) or ''
        
        # parse flags from control_character
        flags = 0
        try:
            flags |= cls._flag_map[control_character]
        except KeyError:
            raise ValueError("Control character %r unknown as parsed from line %r" % (control_character, line))
        # END control char exception hanlding 
        
        # parse operation string for more info - makes no sense for symbolic refs
        old_commit = None
        if isinstance(remote_local_ref, Reference):
            if 'rejected' in operation:
                flags |= cls.REJECTED
            if 'new tag' in operation:
                flags |= cls.NEW_TAG
            if 'new branch' in operation:
                flags |= cls.NEW_HEAD
            if '...' in operation or '..' in operation:
                split_token = '...'
                if control_character == ' ':
                    split_token = split_token[:-1]
                old_commit = Commit(repo, operation.split(split_token)[0])
            # END handle refspec
        # END reference flag handling
        
        return cls(remote_local_ref, flags, note, old_commit)
    

class Remote(LazyMixin, Iterable):
    """
    Provides easy read and write access to a git remote.
    
    Everything not part of this interface is considered an option for the current 
    remote, allowing constructs like remote.pushurl to query the pushurl.
    
    NOTE: When querying configuration, the configuration accessor will be cached
    to speed up subsequent accesses.
    """
    
    __slots__ = ( "repo", "name", "_config_reader" )
    _id_attribute_ = "name"
    
    def __init__(self, repo, name):
        """
        Initialize a remote instance
        
        ``repo``
            The repository we are a remote of
            
        ``name``
            the name of the remote, i.e. 'origin'
        """
        self.repo = repo
        self.name = name
        
    def __getattr__(self, attr):
        """
        Allows to call this instance like 
        remote.special( *args, **kwargs) to call git-remote special self.name
        """
        if attr == "_config_reader":
            return super(Remote, self).__getattr__(attr)
        
        return self._config_reader.get(attr)
    
    def _config_section_name(self):
        return 'remote "%s"' % self.name
    
    def _set_cache_(self, attr):
        if attr == "_config_reader":
            self._config_reader = _SectionConstraint(self.repo.config_reader(), self._config_section_name())
        else:
            super(Remote, self)._set_cache_(attr)
            
    
    def __str__(self):
        return self.name 
    
    def __repr__(self):
        return '<git.%s "%s">' % (self.__class__.__name__, self.name)
        
    def __eq__(self, other):
        return self.name == other.name
        
    def __ne__(self, other):
        return not ( self == other )
        
    def __hash__(self):
        return hash(self.name)
    
    @classmethod
    def iter_items(cls, repo):
        """
        Returns
            Iterator yielding Remote objects of the given repository
        """
        for section in repo.config_reader("repository").sections():
            if not section.startswith('remote'):
                continue
            lbound = section.find('"')
            rbound = section.rfind('"')
            if lbound == -1 or rbound == -1:
                raise ValueError("Remote-Section has invalid format: %r" % section)
            yield Remote(repo, section[lbound+1:rbound])
        # END for each configuration section
        
    @property
    def refs(self):
        """
        Returns
            IterableList of RemoteReference objects. It is prefixed, allowing 
            you to omit the remote path portion, i.e.::
             remote.refs.master # yields RemoteReference('/refs/remotes/origin/master')
        """
        out_refs = IterableList(RemoteReference._id_attribute_, "%s/" % self.name)
        for ref in RemoteReference.list_items(self.repo):
            if ref.remote_name == self.name:
                out_refs.append(ref)
            # END if names match
        # END for each ref
        assert out_refs, "Remote %s did not have any references" % self.name
        return out_refs
        
    @property
    def stale_refs(self):
        """
        Returns 
            IterableList RemoteReference objects that do not have a corresponding 
            head in the remote reference anymore as they have been deleted on the 
            remote side, but are still available locally.
            
            The IterableList is prefixed, hence the 'origin' must be omitted. See
            'refs' property for an example.
        """
        out_refs = IterableList(RemoteReference._id_attribute_, "%s/" % self.name)
        for line in self.repo.git.remote("prune", "--dry-run", self).splitlines()[2:]:
            # expecting 
            # * [would prune] origin/new_branch
            token = " * [would prune] " 
            if not line.startswith(token):
                raise ValueError("Could not parse git-remote prune result: %r" % line)
            fqhn = "%s/%s" % (RemoteReference._common_path_default,line.replace(token, ""))
            out_refs.append(RemoteReference(self.repo, fqhn))
        # END for each line 
        return out_refs
    
    @classmethod
    def create(cls, repo, name, url, **kwargs):
        """
        Create a new remote to the given repository
        ``repo``
            Repository instance that is to receive the new remote
        
        ``name``
            Desired name of the remote
        
        ``url``
            URL which corresponds to the remote's name
            
        ``**kwargs``
            Additional arguments to be passed to the git-remote add command
            
        Returns
            New Remote instance
            
        Raise
            GitCommandError in case an origin with that name already exists
        """
        repo.git.remote( "add", name, url, **kwargs )
        return cls(repo, name)
    
    # add is an alias
    add = create
    
    @classmethod
    def remove(cls, repo, name ):
        """
        Remove the remote with the given name
        """
        repo.git.remote("rm", name)
        
    # alias
    rm = remove
        
    def rename(self, new_name):
        """
        Rename self to the given new_name
        
        Returns
            self
        """
        if self.name == new_name:
            return self
        
        self.repo.git.remote("rename", self.name, new_name)
        self.name = new_name
        del(self._config_reader)        # it contains cached values, section names are different now
        return self
        
    def update(self, **kwargs):
        """
        Fetch all changes for this remote, including new branches which will 
        be forced in ( in case your local remote branch is not part the new remote branches
        ancestry anymore ).
        
        ``kwargs``
            Additional arguments passed to git-remote update
        
        Returns
            self
        """
        self.repo.git.remote("update", self.name)
        return self
    
    def _digest_process_messages(self, fh, progress):
        """Read progress messages from file-like object fh, supplying the respective
        progress messages to the progress instance.
        @return: list(line, ...) list of lines without linebreaks that did 
        not contain progress information"""
        line_so_far = ''
        dropped_lines = list()
        while True:
            char = fh.read(1)
            if not char:
                break
            
            if char in ('\r', '\n'):
                dropped_lines.extend(progress._parse_progress_line(line_so_far))
                line_so_far = ''
            else:
                line_so_far += char
            # END process parsed line
        # END while file is not done reading
        return dropped_lines
        
    
    def _finalize_proc(self, proc):
        """Wait for the process (fetch, pull or push) and handle its errors accordingly"""
        try:
            proc.wait()
        except GitCommandError,e:
            # if a push has rejected items, the command has non-zero return status
            # a return status of 128 indicates a connection error - reraise the previous one
            if proc.poll() == 128:
                raise
            pass
        # END exception handling
        
    
    def _get_fetch_info_from_stderr(self, proc, progress):
        # skip first line as it is some remote info we are not interested in
        output = IterableList('name')
        
        
        # lines which are no progress are fetch info lines
        # this also waits for the command to finish
        # Skip some progress lines that don't provide relevant information
        fetch_info_lines = list()
        for line in self._digest_process_messages(proc.stderr, progress):
            if line.startswith('From') or line.startswith('remote: Total'):
                continue
            fetch_info_lines.append(line)
        # END for each line
        
        # read head information 
        fp = open(os.path.join(self.repo.git_dir, 'FETCH_HEAD'),'r')
        fetch_head_info = fp.readlines()
        fp.close()
        
        assert len(fetch_info_lines) == len(fetch_head_info)
        
        output.extend(FetchInfo._from_line(self.repo, err_line, fetch_line) 
                        for err_line,fetch_line in zip(fetch_info_lines, fetch_head_info))
        
        self._finalize_proc(proc)
        return output
    
    def _get_push_info(self, proc, progress):
        # read progress information from stderr
        # we hope stdout can hold all the data, it should ...
        # read the lines manually as it will use carriage returns between the messages
        # to override the previous one. This is why we read the bytes manually
        self._digest_process_messages(proc.stderr, progress)
        
        output = IterableList('name')
        for line in proc.stdout.readlines():
            try:
                output.append(PushInfo._from_line(self, line))
            except ValueError:
                # if an error happens, additional info is given which we cannot parse
                pass
            # END exception handling 
        # END for each line
        
        self._finalize_proc(proc)
        return output
        
    
    def fetch(self, refspec=None, progress=None, **kwargs):
        """
        Fetch the latest changes for this remote
        
        ``refspec``
            A "refspec" is used by fetch and push to describe the mapping 
            between remote ref and local ref. They are combined with a colon in 
            the format <src>:<dst>, preceded by an optional plus sign, +. 
            For example: git fetch $URL refs/heads/master:refs/heads/origin means 
            "grab the master branch head from the $URL and store it as my origin 
            branch head". And git push $URL refs/heads/master:refs/heads/to-upstream 
            means "publish my master branch head as to-upstream branch at $URL". 
            See also git-push(1).
            
            Taken from the git manual
        ``progress``
            See 'push' method
            
        ``**kwargs``
            Additional arguments to be passed to git-fetch
            
        Returns
            IterableList(FetchInfo, ...) list of FetchInfo instances providing detailed 
            information about the fetch results
            
        Note
            As fetch does not provide progress information to non-ttys, we cannot make 
            it available here unfortunately as in the 'push' method.
        """
        proc = self.repo.git.fetch(self, refspec, with_extended_output=True, as_process=True, v=True, **kwargs)
        return self._get_fetch_info_from_stderr(proc, progress or RemoteProgress())
        
    def pull(self, refspec=None, progress=None, **kwargs):
        """
        Pull changes from the given branch, being the same as a fetch followed 
        by a merge of branch with your local branch.
        
        ``refspec``
            see 'fetch' method
            
        ``progress``
            see 'push' method
        
        ``**kwargs``
            Additional arguments to be passed to git-pull
            
        Returns
            Please see 'fetch' method
        """
        proc = self.repo.git.pull(self, refspec, with_extended_output=True, as_process=True, v=True, **kwargs)
        return self._get_fetch_info_from_stderr(proc, progress or RemoteProgress())
        
    def push(self, refspec=None, progress=None, **kwargs):
        """
        Push changes from source branch in refspec to target branch in refspec.
        
        ``refspec``
            see 'fetch' method
        
        ``progress``
            Instance of type RemoteProgress allowing the caller to receive 
            progress information until the method returns.
            If None, progress information will be discarded
        
        ``**kwargs``
            Additional arguments to be passed to git-push
            
        Returns
            IterableList(PushInfo, ...) iterable list of PushInfo instances, each 
            one informing about an individual head which had been updated on the remote 
            side.
            If the push contains rejected heads, these will have the PushInfo.ERROR bit set
            in their flags.
            If the operation fails completely, the length of the returned IterableList will
            be null.
        """
        proc = self.repo.git.push(self, refspec, porcelain=True, as_process=True, **kwargs)
        return self._get_push_info(proc, progress or RemoteProgress())
        
    @property
    def config_reader(self):
        """
        Returns
            GitConfigParser compatible object able to read options for only our remote.
            Hence you may simple type config.get("pushurl") to obtain the information
        """
        return self._config_reader
    
    @property
    def config_writer(self):
        """
        Return
            GitConfigParser compatible object able to write options for this remote.
            
        Note
            You can only own one writer at a time - delete it to release the 
            configuration file and make it useable by others.
            
            To assure consistent results, you should only query options through the 
            writer. Once you are done writing, you are free to use the config reader 
            once again.
        """
        writer = self.repo.config_writer()
        
        # clear our cache to assure we re-read the possibly changed configuration
        del(self._config_reader)
        return _SectionConstraint(writer, self._config_section_name())