On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 07:05:35PM +0000, Jens Restemeier wrote: > Hi, > Not sure if this is a better dev or user question... > Is there an official way to tell if a file path points to a svn repository in > the C API? I looked at the documentation, but it seem to require quite some > knowledge about the architecture, and it is sometimes hard to tell if > something is referring to a repository path or a host filesystem path. > > I am on the server, and have access to the directory the repositories are > served from. I could obviously check if the directory contains "format", > "conf" or "db". I am linking against the svn libraries anyway, and I'd like a > future-proof method. Is there anything like svn_is_repository(path)? I could > try to open a path and see if I get an error? > > Cheers, > Jens >
Hi Jens, In case you have not seen it yet, this page lists some things you may need to know in order to make sense of Subversion's code base: https://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/conventions.html I guess the simplest thing you could do is call svn_repos_open() on a given path. If your input path is not UTF-8 encoded then run it through svn_utf_cstring_to_utf8() beforehand. Then you should run the resulting UTF-encoded path through svn_dirent_internal_style() in order to ensure that the path will be considered valid. Code in subversion/svnadmin/svnadmin.c contains examples of this. svn_open_repos() is declared in svn_repos.h and expects just a path and an APR pool as input. It should raise some sort of error if the path does not contain a repository. It is marked deprecated but it can be called regardless. Newer versions of this function only add more parameters you do not need, and this deprecated version will fill in suitable defaults for you. /** Similar to svn_repos_open2() with @a fs_config set to NULL. * * @deprecated Provided for backward compatibility with 1.6 API. */ SVN_DEPRECATED svn_error_t * svn_repos_open(svn_repos_t **repos_p, const char *path, apr_pool_t *pool);
