It already is in practice.

The current postgresql model refuses NULL values.

Related to P589

This allows for example to type:

  curl -s https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/content/sha1_git:64582b78792cd6c2d67d35da5a11bb80886a6409/raw/ | swh identify
  swh:1:cnt:64582b78792cd6c2d67d35da5a11bb80886a6409	-

Related to T2188

Add support to automatically compute identifier in the following object models:
Directory, Release, Revision, Snapshot.

If the identifier is not provided as parameter, it will be computed when the model
is initialized.

Allows us to call tests on things other than python3, with the same settings.

they will remain for internal use only, so should not be mentioned in this
public spec

this reverts the documentation part of 67fade5f

currently provides mainly 2 generators:
- gen_origins()
- gen_contents()

we do not really need them to be mutable, plus we gain their instances now
being hashable, so we can add them in set() for example.

Instead of relying on attr.asdict recursion, we do recursion ourselves. This
simplifies a lot of the inherited to_dict() methods.

Related D2082

Daniele Serafini authored 5 years ago and Stefano Zacchiroli committed 5 years ago

... from test_persistent_identifier.

Closes T1986