It will be useful to loaders, as they currently load the entire
content in memory before deciding to skip it.

Can be useful to deduplicate code in swh-storage.

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.

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.

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

... from test_persistent_identifier.

Closes T1986

make mypy 0.730 pass cleanly again

Needed by the replayer in swh-journal.

It kind of matches the current state of the postgresql storage, which
does not support it.

But keep support for deserializing from str, like
swh-storage does.

Code manipulating a Content object may want to access a hash
of configurable name; this method allows it to do that
without using getattr directly.