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[PATCH 02/18] gitweb: add output buffering and associated functions

From
John 'Warthog9' Hawley <warthog9@eaglescrag.net>
Date
Dec 9, 2010, 21:57 UTC
Message-ID
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This adds output buffering for gitweb, mainly in preparation for caching support. This is a dramatic change to how caching was being done, mainly in passing around the variable manually and such.

This centrally flips the entire STDOUT to a variable, which after the completion of the run, flips it back and does a print on the resulting data.

This should save on the previous 10K line patch (or so) that adds more explicit output passing.

[jn: modified reset_output to silence 'gitweb.perl: Name "main::STDOUT_REAL"
 used only once: possible typo at ../gitweb/gitweb.perl line 1130.' warning]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 gitweb/gitweb.perl |   29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index cfa511c..cae0e34 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@ BEGIN {
 
 our $version = "++GIT_VERSION++";
 
+# Output buffer variable
+our $output = "";
+
 our ($my_url, $my_uri, $base_url, $path_info, $home_link);
 sub evaluate_uri {
 	our $cgi;
@@ -1134,6 +1137,25 @@ sub evaluate_argv {
 	);
 }
 
+sub change_output {
+	our $output;
+
+	# Trap the 'proper' STDOUT to STDOUT_REAL for things like error messages and such
+	open(STDOUT_REAL,">&STDOUT") or die "Unable to capture STDOUT $!\n";
+
+	# Close STDOUT, so that it isn't being used anymore.
+	close STDOUT;
+
+	# Trap STDOUT to the $output variable, which is what I was using in the original
+	# patch anyway.
+	open(STDOUT,">", \$output) || die "Unable to open STDOUT: $!"; #open STDOUT handle to use $var
+}
+
+sub reset_output {
+	# This basically takes STDOUT_REAL and puts it back as STDOUT
+	open STDOUT, ">&", \*STDOUT_REAL;
+}
+
 sub run {
 	evaluate_argv();
 
@@ -1145,7 +1167,10 @@ sub run {
 		$pre_dispatch_hook->()
 			if $pre_dispatch_hook;
 
+		change_output();
 		run_request();
+		reset_output();
+		print $output;
 
 		$post_dispatch_hook->()
 			if $post_dispatch_hook;
@@ -3655,6 +3680,10 @@ sub die_error {
 		500 => '500 Internal Server Error',
 		503 => '503 Service Unavailable',
 	);
+	# Reset the output so that we are actually going to STDOUT as opposed
+	# to buffering the output.
+	reset_output();
+
 	git_header_html($http_responses{$status}, undef, %opts);
 	print <<EOF;
 <div class="page_body">
-- 
1.7.2.3
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  1. 00/18 Gitweb caching v8John 'Warthog9' Hawley, Dec 9, 2010
  2. 01/18 gitweb: Prepare for splitting gitwebJohn 'Warthog9' Hawley, Dec 9, 2010
  3. Jakub NarebskiDec 9, 2010
  4. 02/18 gitweb: add output buffering and associated functionsJohn 'Warthog9' Hawley, Dec 9, 2010
  5. 03/18 gitweb: File based caching layer (from git.kernel.org)John 'Warthog9' Hawley, Dec 9, 2010
  6. 04/18 gitweb: Minimal testing of gitweb cachingJohn 'Warthog9' Hawley, Dec 9, 2010
  7. 05/18 gitweb: Regression fix concerning binary output of filesJohn 'Warthog9' Hawley, Dec 9, 2010
  8. Jakub NarebskiDec 9, 2010
  9. 06/18 gitweb: Add more explicit means of disabling 'Generating...' pageJohn 'Warthog9' Hawley, Dec 9, 2010
  10. 07/18 gitweb: Revert back to $cache_enable vs. $caching_enabledJohn 'Warthog9' Hawley, Dec 9, 2010
  11. Jakub NarebskiDec 9, 2010
  12. J.H.Dec 10, 2010
  13. Jakub NarebskiDec 10, 2010
  14. 08/18 gitweb: Change is_cacheable() to return true alwaysJohn 'Warthog9' Hawley, Dec 9, 2010
  15. Jakub NarebskiDec 9, 2010
  16. 09/18 gitweb: Revert reset_output() back to original codeJohn 'Warthog9' Hawley, Dec 9, 2010
  17. Jakub NarebskiDec 9, 2010
  18. J.H.Dec 10, 2010
  19. 10/18 gitweb: Adding isBinaryAction() and isFeedAction() to determine the action typeJohn 'Warthog9' Hawley, Dec 9, 2010
  20. Jakub NarebskiDec 10, 2010
  21. J.H.Dec 10, 2010
  22. Jakub NarebskiDec 10, 2010
  23. Jakub NarebskiDec 10, 2010
  24. 11/18 gitweb: add isDumbClient() checkJohn 'Warthog9' Hawley, Dec 9, 2010
  25. Jakub NarebskiDec 10, 2010
  26. J.H.Dec 10, 2010
  27. Junio C HamanoDec 11, 2010
  28. Jakub NarebskiDec 11, 2010
  29. J.H.Dec 11, 2010
  30. Jakub NarebskiDec 11, 2010
  31. 12/18 gitweb: Change file handles (in caching) to lexical variables as opposed to globsJohn 'Warthog9' Hawley, Dec 9, 2010
  32. Jakub NarebskiDec 10, 2010
  33. Junio C HamanoDec 10, 2010
  34. Jakub NarebskiDec 10, 2010
  35. J.H.Dec 10, 2010
  36. 13/18 gitweb: Add commented url & url hash to page footerJohn 'Warthog9' Hawley, Dec 9, 2010
  37. Jakub NarebskiDec 10, 2010
  38. J.H.Dec 10, 2010
  39. 14/18 gitweb: add print_transient_header() function for central header printingJohn 'Warthog9' Hawley, Dec 9, 2010
  40. Jakub NarebskiDec 10, 2010
  41. J.H.Dec 10, 2010
  42. 15/18 gitweb: Add show_warning() to display an immediate warning, with refreshJohn 'Warthog9' Hawley, Dec 9, 2010
  43. Jakub NarebskiDec 10, 2010
  44. J.H.Dec 10, 2010
  45. Jakub NarebskiDec 10, 2010
  46. 16/18 gitweb: When changing output (STDOUT) change STDERR as wellJohn 'Warthog9' Hawley, Dec 9, 2010
  47. Jakub NarebskiDec 10, 2010
  48. J.H.Dec 12, 2010
  49. Jakub NarebskiDec 12, 2010
  50. 17/18 gitweb: Prepare for cached error pages & better error page handlingJohn 'Warthog9' Hawley, Dec 9, 2010
  51. Jakub NarebskiDec 10, 2010
  52. J.H.Dec 10, 2010
  53. Jakub NarebskiDec 10, 2010
  54. 18/18 gitweb: Add better error handling for gitweb cachingJohn 'Warthog9' Hawley, Dec 9, 2010
  55. Jakub NarebskiDec 10, 2010
  56. Jakub NarebskiDec 9, 2010
  57. J.H.Dec 10, 2010
  58. Jakub NarebskiDec 10, 2010
  59. Junio C HamanoDec 10, 2010
  60. J.H.Dec 10, 2010

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