SVN::Ra->new(...)

The constructor creates an RA object and calls "open" for it. Its parameters are either a hash of options or a single value containing the URL of the repository. Valid options are:

url

The URL of the repository.

auth

An "auth_baton" could be given to the SVN::RA object. Defaults to an "auth_provider" with a "username_provider". See SVN::Client for how to create "auth_baton".

pool

The pool for the RA session to use. Member functions will also be called with this pool. Defaults to a newly created root pool.

config

The config hash that could be obtained by calling SVN::Core::config_get_config(undef).

callback

The "ra_callback" namespace to use. Defaults to SVN::Ra::Callbacks.

The following examples will both do the same thing, with all the optional arguments taking their defaults:

my $ra = SVN::Ra->new('file:///tmp/repos');
my $ra = SVN::Ra->new(url => 'file:///tmp/repos');

METHODS

Please consult the svn_ra.h section in the Subversion API. Member functions of "svn_ra_plugin_t" can be called as methods of SVN::Ra objects, with the "session_baton" and "pool" arguments omitted.

$ra->change_rev_prop($revnum, $name, $value)

Sets the revision (unversioned) property $name to $value on revision $revnum, or removes the property if $value is undef.

$ra->change_rev_prop(123, 'svn:log', 'New log message.');

Of course this will only work if there is a "pre-revprop-change" hook available.

$ra->check_path($path, $revnum)

Kind of node at $path in revision $revnum. A number which matches one of these constants: $SVN::Node::none, $SVN::Node::file, $SVN::Node::dir, $SVN::Node::unknown.

$ra->do_diff($revision, $target, $recurse, $ignore_ancestry, $versus_url, $editor)

$ra->do_diff2($revision, $target, $recurse, $ignore_ancestry, $text_deltas, $versus_url, $editor)

Both of these return a SVN::Ra::Reporter with which you can describe a working copy. It will then call methods on $editor to indicates the differences between the repository and the working copy.

The "do_diff2" method was added in Subversion 1.4. It adds the $text_deltas option, which if false disables the generation of text deltas on the editor. With "do_diff" text deltas are always generated.

my $reporter = $ra->do_diff(1, '', 1, 0, $repos_url,
                            MyEditor->new);
$reporter->set_path(...);
$reporter->finish_report;

$ra->do_status($target, $revision, $recurse, $editor)

Returns a SVN::Ra::Reporter to which you can describe the status of a working copy. It will then call methods on $editor to describe the current status of the working copy compared to the repository.

$ra->do_switch($revnum, $target, $recurse, $repos_url, $editor)

Returns a SVN::Ra::Reporter with which you can describe a working copy. It will then call methods on $editor to indicate how to adjust the working copy to switch it to revision $revnum of $repos_url.

$ra->do_update($revision_to_update_to, $target, $recurse, $editor)

Returns a SVN::Ra::Reporter object. Call methods on the reporter to describe the current state of your working copy (or whatever you're updating). After calling the reporter's finish_report() method, Subversion will generate calls to your $editor to describe the differences between what you already have and the state of the repository in $revision_to_update_to.

To update to the latest revision, pass $SVN::Core::INVALID_REVNUM for the first argument.

$target should be the path to the part of the repository you are interested in. You won't be given information about changes outside this path. If you want everything, pass an empty string.

If $recurse is true and the target is a directory, update recursively; otherwise, update just the target and its immediate entries, but not its child directories (if any).

All paths are relative to the URL used to open $ra.

The caller may not perform any RA operations using $ra before finishing the report, and may not perform any RA operations using $ra from within the editing operations of $editor.

This example shows the simplest update, where the client tells the reporter that it has nothing to start with:

my $reporter = $ra->do_update($revnum, '', 1, MyEditor->new);
$reporter->set_path('', 0, 1, undef);
$reporter->finish_report;

$ra->get_commit_editor($logmsg, $callback, $callback_baton, $lock_tokens, $keep_locks)

$ra->get_commit_editor2($logmsg, $callback, $callback_baton, $lock_tokens, $keep_locks)

Return an opaque editor object for committing a new revision to the repository. The return values should be passed to the SVN::Delta::Editor constructor to create an editor object you can actually use. For example:

my $editor = SVN::Delta::Editor->new(
    $ra->get_commit_editor(
        "I'm going to commit some changes from within my Perl code.",
        \&commit_callback, undef, {}, 0));

Now that you've got your editor you can call methods on it to describe changes in the tree you want to make, such as adding directories, changing file contents, etc. See SVN::Delta for documentation of the editor interface.

The $callback function will be called during your call to the "$ed->close_edit()" method, after the commit has succeeded. It will not be called if there were no changes to commit. If you don't need it, pass undef instead of a code ref.

"get_commit_editor2" is identical to "get_commit_editor" except for the information passed to the callback function. The new version, added in Subversion 1.4, will pass the callback a single value (TODO: I can' test this, but it's probably an object or hash ref) which contains all the information. It also includes the error message from the post-commit hook script, which is not available with "get_commit_editor".

The callback for the original version will be passed three arguments:

$ra->get_dated_revision($time)

TODO - this doesn't seem to work in Subversion 1.3.

$ra->get_dir($path, $revnum)

$ra->get_dir2($path, $revnum, $dirent_fields)

Fetch the directory entries and properties of the directory at $path in revision $revnum

A list of three values are returned. The first is a reference to a hash of directory entries. The keys are the names of all the files and directories in $path (not full paths, just the filenames). The values are _p_svn_dirent_t objects, with all their fields filled in. The third parameter to "get_dir2" allows you to select particular fields. TODO: I don't think the constants you'd use to construct the $dirent_fields value are provided in the Perl API.

The second value is a number, which is only valid if $revnum is $SVN::Core::INVALID_REVNUM. If that is the case then the latest revision will be fetched, and the revision number (the HEAD revision) will be returned as the second value. Otherwise the revision number returned will be completely arbitrary.

The third value returned will be a reference to a hash of all properties on the directory. This means all properties: not just ones controlled by the user and stored in the repository fs, but non-tweakable ones generated by the SCM system itself (e.g. 'wcprops', 'entryprops', etc).

my ($dirents, undef, $props) = $ra->get_dir('trunk/dir', 123);
my ($dirents, $fetched_revnum, $props) = $ra->get_dir(
    'trunk/dir', $SVN::Core::INVALID_REVNUM);

$ra->get_file($path, $revnum, $fh)

Fetch the contents and properties of the file at $path in revision $revnum. $fh should be a Perl filehandle, to which the contents of the file will be written, or undef if you don't need the file contents.

Note that $path cannot end in a slash unless it is just '/'.

A list of two values are returned. The first is a number, which is only valid if $revnum is $SVN::Core::INVALID_REVNUM. If that is the case then the latest revision will be fetched, and the revision number (the HEAD revision) will be returned as the first value. Otherwise the number returned will be completely arbitrary.

The second value returned will be a reference to a hash of all properties on the file. This means all properties: not just ones controlled by the user and stored in the repository fs, but non-tweakable ones generated by the SCM system itself (e.g. 'wcprops', 'entryprops', etc).

my (undef, $props) = $ra->get_file(
    'trunk/foo', 123, undef);
open my $fh, '>', 'tmp_out'
    or die "error opening file: $!";
my (undef, $props) = $ra->get_file(
    'trunk/foo', 123, $fh);
my ($fetched_revnum, $props) = $ra->get_file(
    'trunk/foo', $SVN::Core::INVALID_REVNUM, $fh);

$ra->get_file_revs($path, $start, $end, \&callback)

TODO - doesn't seem to work in Subversion 1.3

$ra->get_latest_revnum

Return the number of the latest revision in the repository (HEAD).

$ra->get_locations($path, $peg_revnum, \@location_revisions)

TODO - doesn't seem to work in Subversion 1.3

$ra->get_lock($path)

Returns a _p_svn_lock_t object containing information about the lock at $path, or undef if that path isn't currently locked.

$ra->get_locks($path)

TODO - doesn't seem to work in Subversion 1.3

$ra->get_log(\@paths, $start, $end, $limit, $discover_changed_paths, $strict_node_history, \&callback)

For $limit revisions from $start to $end, invoke the receiver callback() with information about the changes made in the revision (log message, time, etc.).

The caller may not invoke any RA operations using $ra from within the callback function. They may work in some situations, but it's not guaranteed.

The first argument can be either a single string or a reference to an array of strings. Each of these indicates a path in the repository which you are interested in. Revisions which don't change any of these paths (or files below them) will be ignored. Simply pass '' if you don't want to limit by path.

$start and $end should be revision numbers. If $start has a lower value than $end then the revisions will be produced in ascending order (r1, r2, ...), otherwise in descending order. If $start is $SVN::Core::INVALID_REVNUM then it defaults to the latest revision.

TODO - the previous sentence should also be true of $end, but doing that gets an error message in Subversion 1.3.

$limit is a number indicating the maximum number of times that the receiver callback() should be called. If it is 0, there will be no limit.

If $discover_changed_paths is true, then information about which changes were made to which paths is passed to callback().

If $strict_node_history is true, copy history will not be traversed (if any exists) when harvesting the revision logs for each path.

The callback function will be given the following arguments:

$ra->get_log('', 1, $ra->get_latest_revnum, 0, 1, 0,
             \&log_callback);
sub log_callback
{
    my ($paths, $revnum, $user, $datetime, $logmsg) = @_;
    print "$datetime - $user - r$revnum\n";
    while (my ($path, $changes) = each %$paths) {
        print $changes->action, " $path\n";
        if ($changes->copyfrom_path) {
            print " from ", $changes->copyfrom_path,
                  " r", $changes->copyfrom_rev, "\n"
        }
    }
    print "\n";
}

$ra->get_repos_root

Returns the repository's root URL. The value will not include a trailing '/'. The returned URL is guaranteed to be a prefix of the session's URL.

$ra->get_uuid

Returns the repository's UUID as a string.

$ra->lock(\%path_revs, $comment, $steal_lock, \&callback)

TODO - doesn't seem to work in Subversion 1.3.2

$ra->reparent($url)

Change the root URL of the session in $ra to point to a different path. $url must be in the same repository as the one $ra is already accessing.

New in Subversion 1.4.

$ra->replay($revnum, $low_water_mark, $send_deltas, $editor)

Call methods on $editor to describe the changes made in the revisions after $low_water_mark, up to revision $revnum. This is like using do_update(), except that it doesn't return a reporter object, and so you don't have to describe a working copy to it. It assumes that you've already got everything up to $low_water_mark.

If $send_deltas is true then file contents and property values will be supplied, otherwise just filename changes.

New in Subversion 1.4.

$ra->rev_prop($revnum, $name)

Return the value of the unversioned property $name from revision $revnum. Returns undef if there is no such property.

print $ra->rev_prop(123, 'svn:date');

$ra->rev_proplist($revnum)

Returns a reference to a hash containing all the unversioned properties of revision $revnum.

my $props = $ra->rev_proplist(123);
print $props->{'svn:log'};

$ra->stat($path, $revnum)

Returns a _p_svn_dirent_t object containing information about the file at $path in revision $revnum.

$ra->unlock(\%path_tokens, $break_lock, \&callback)

TODO - doesn't seem to work in Subversion 1.3.2

METHODS

$reporter->set_path($path, $revision, $start_empty, $lock_token, $pool)

Describe a working copy $path as being at a particular $revision.

If $start_empty is true and $path is a directory, the implementor should assume the directory has no entries or properties.

This will override any previous set_path() calls made on parent paths. $path is relative to the URL specified in "SVN::Ra->open()" or "SVN::Ra->new()".

If $lock_token is not undef, it is the lock token for $path in the WC.

All temporary allocations are done in $pool.

$reporter->delete_path($path, $pool)

Describe a working copy $path as missing.

All temporary allocations are done in $pool.

$reporter->link_path($path, $url, $revision, $start_empty, $lock_token, $pool)

Like set_path(), but differs in that $path in the working copy (relative to the root of the report driver) isn't a reflection of $path in the repository (relative to the URL specified when opening the RA layer), but is instead a reflection of a different repository $url at $revision.

If $start_empty is true and $path is a directory, the implementor should assume the directory has no entries or props.

If $lock_token is not undef, it is the lock token for $path in the WC.

All temporary allocations are done in $pool.

$reporter->finish_report($pool)

Call this when the state report is finished; any directories or files not explicitly 'set' are assumed to be at the baseline revision originally passed into do_update(). No other reporting functions, including abort_report(), should be called after calling this function.

$reporter->abort_report($pool)

If an error occurs during a report, this method should cause the filesystem transaction to be aborted and cleaned up. No other reporting methods should be called after calling this method.