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| author | rfkelly0 <rfkelly0@67cdc799-7952-0410-af00-57a81ceafa0f> | 2009-06-07 05:37:33 +0000 |
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| committer | rfkelly0 <rfkelly0@67cdc799-7952-0410-af00-57a81ceafa0f> | 2009-06-07 05:37:33 +0000 |
| commit | 95fce0c619627c1501a071a6640b8bc3f7e6880f (patch) | |
| tree | fb537498bad81acb21438d828c42f02461762e2f | |
| parent | 832c918b5575013e8a5b0a584654646815e43a48 (diff) | |
| download | pyfilesystem-95fce0c619627c1501a071a6640b8bc3f7e6880f.tar.gz | |
more notes on my API changes
git-svn-id: http://pyfilesystem.googlecode.com/svn/branches/rfk-ideas@156 67cdc799-7952-0410-af00-57a81ceafa0f
| -rw-r--r-- | NOTES.txt | 15 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
@@ -7,16 +7,19 @@ Minify the contained functions: - remove isabsolutepath(), it wasn't used Put error class definitions in separate submodule 'errors' - - deeper exception heirachy and less redundancy - (e.g. no more `raise UnsupportedError("UNSUPPORTED")`) + - less redundancy (e.g. no more `raise UnsupportedError("UNSUPPORTED")`) + - deeper exception heirachy (e.g. `ParentDirectoryMissingError`) +This is designed to allow me to be more optimistic; rather than checking all +preconditions before trying an action, I can just let it fail and branch on +the exception. Important for reducing the number of accesses to a remote FS. Remove the notion of hidden files from the base FS class. - - it's not the filesystem's business to decide what files I want to see - has lead to several bugs with copying/moving directories - - moved the logic into a separate wrapper class, currently - in fs.wrapfs.HideDotFiles + - it's not the filesystem's business to decide what files I want to see + - moved the logic into a separate wrapper class "HideDotFiles" Remove xattr support from base FS class, making it a separate interface. + - has lead to several bugs with copying/moving files and directories - now defined in fs.xattrs module - SimulateXAttr wrapper class contains the same logic - removexattr() -> delxattr() in line with python's get/set/del tradition @@ -31,5 +34,5 @@ Split up the test definitions a little: - use a separate FSTestCases mixin rather than subclassing TestOSFS - path helpers testcases in their own module - zipfs in its own module since it's different to all the others - - s3fs in its own module since it's very slow + - s3fs in its own module since it's very slow and costs money to test |