I've pushed an initial cut of the spec: feel free to modify as you discover things that don't make sense. https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/master/design-docs/repository-transports.md
On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Marcin Erdmann <marcin.erdm...@proxerd.pl>wrote: > Sounds like a plan. > > > On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 11:02 PM, Adam Murdoch < > adam.murd...@gradleware.com> wrote: > >> >> On 24 Feb 2014, at 9:36 am, Marcin Erdmann <marcin.erdm...@proxerd.pl> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Daz DeBoer < >> darrell.deb...@gradleware.com> wrote: >> >>> >>>> I didn't get much time to have a look at this stuff this weekend >>>> because I spent it contributing to Ratpack but I seem to have found test >>>> code that exercises transports so I should be able to get started this >>>> week. I will look at this code more and start drafting the design spec. >>>> >>> >>> Excellent. I was planning on putting a first draft of the design spec up >>> today; likely pretty basic to start with. >>> >> >> Would be great if you could draft it. You probably have a much better >> idea about the requirements than I do. >> >> >> If you're keen to get started while we're getting the spec together, you >> might do a quick spike with one or both of the clients to see what's >> required to get them to talk to an ssh server, and if you have a preference >> between sshd or jsch. You could even start with an integration test that >> uses the sshd test fixture and drives the client(s) directly. We could then >> refactor this into the real implementation. >> >> The sorts of things we'll need to be able to do: >> >> - Read the meta-data for a file, including whether it exists or not, plus >> the size and last modified time of the file. >> - Read from a file. >> - Write to a file. >> - Create file. >> - List the entries of a directory. >> >> When things fail, it would be really nice to be able tell the difference >> between a failure where the thing did not exist, vs a failure where there >> is some permission problem, vs the server is not running, vs everything >> else. >> >> I suspect error handling will be the deciding factor between the two >> clients. >> >> >> -- >> Adam Murdoch >> Gradle Co-founder >> http://www.gradle.org >> VP of Engineering, Gradleware Inc. - Gradle Training, Support, Consulting >> http://www.gradleware.com >> >> >> >> >
