[PATCH] serve: introduce --get and --post for easy testing of hgweb

[Mads Kiilerich]

On 02/10/2013 12:43 PM, Brodie Rao wrote:
> (Resending, forgot to CC the list.)
>
> On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 11:22 PM, Mads Kiilerich <mads at kiilerich.com> wrote:
>> # HG changeset patch
>> # User Mads Kiilerich <mads at kiilerich.com>
>> # Date 1359297965 -3600
>> # Node ID 86f6b4786d8d292843a9509b0c99f8e855ef4e9d
>> # Parent  19f90544863eadb00baf80ef21811d41b2beb54b
>> serve: introduce --get and --post for easy testing of hgweb
>>
>> These options can be useful both in the test suite and for other kinds of hgweb
>> testing.
>>
>> diff --git a/mercurial/commands.py b/mercurial/commands.py
>> --- a/mercurial/commands.py
>> +++ b/mercurial/commands.py
>> @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
>>   from node import hex, bin, nullid, nullrev, short
>>   from lock import release
>>   from i18n import _, gettext
>> -import os, re, difflib, time, tempfile, errno
>> +import os, re, difflib, time, tempfile, errno, sys
>>   import hg, scmutil, util, revlog, extensions, copies, error, bookmarks
>>   import patch, help, encoding, templatekw, discovery
>>   import archival, changegroup, cmdutil, hbisect
>> @@ -5251,7 +5251,9 @@
>>       ('t', 'templates', '', _('web templates to use'), _('TEMPLATE')),
>>       ('', 'style', '', _('template style to use'), _('STYLE')),
>>       ('6', 'ipv6', None, _('use IPv6 in addition to IPv4')),
>> -    ('', 'certificate', '', _('SSL certificate file'), _('FILE'))],
>> +    ('', 'certificate', '', _('SSL certificate file'), _('FILE')),
>> +    ('', 'get', '', _('just GET url'), _('URL')),
>> +    ('', 'post', '', _('just POST url'), _('URL'))],
> Do these options need to be exposed by default? I feel like they might
> be better as debug options.

Perhaps? But it is not that it is exposing Mercurial internals as most 
other debug commands do.

Showing them directly in the help makes them more directly available for 
people with problems with their hgweb configuration and with systematic 
debugging.

Other opinions?

/Mads