BUG REPORT: The test cases for the Perl API SVN::Ra at

  
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/subversion/bindings/swig/perl/native/t/6ra.t

currently lack tests for any of the functions needed to commit a change
to the repository via the remote-access API layer. For starters, there
are no tests for get_commit_editor, get_commit_editor2,
get_commit_editor3. (The SVN::Ra man page even says that the author did
not succeed in testing these functions ...)

When I try to use e.g. get_commit_editor2 as suggested in the SVN::Ra
man page, I just get an error message like

  TypeError in method 'svn_ra_get_commit_editor2', argument 5 of type 
'svn_commit_callback2_t'

A short example Perl script that reproduces this is attached below.

Motivation: The remote-access layer API is very useful for applications
(such as Web CGI editors) that want to commit changes without the
overhead and disk-state involved with having to checkout a working
directory first. Perl remains a popular CGI scripting language, which
makes a well-tested, production-quality Perl SWIG binding for svn_ra.h
highly desirable.

See also: 
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/subversion-users/201007.mbox/browser

Markus

-- 
Markus Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ || CB3 0FD, Great Britain

#!/usr/bin/perl
use SVN::Core;
use SVN::Ra;
use SVN::Delta;

my $ra = SVN::Ra->new('http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/');
my $path = 'trunk/BUGS';
open($fh, '>', \$text) || die;
my ($revnum, $props) = $ra->get_file($path, $SVN::Core::INVALID_REVNUM, $fh);
close $fh || die;
print "Revision: $revnum\n\n$text\n";

my $logmsg = "test commit via the SVN:Ra Perl API";
sub commit_callback {
    my ($arg) = @_;
    use Data::Dumper;
    print STDERR "commit_callback(".Dumper($arg).")\n";
}
my $editor = SVN::Delta::Editor->new(
    $ra->get_commit_editor2($logmsg, \&commit_callback, undef, {}, 0));

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