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| +# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
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| +# Copyright 2014 Google Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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| +#
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| +# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
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| +# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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| +# You may obtain a copy of the License at
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| +#
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| +# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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| +#
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| +# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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| +# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
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| +# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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| +# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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| +# limitations under the License.
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| +"""Additional help about gsutil's interaction with Cloud Storage APIs."""
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| +from gslib.help_provider import HelpProvider
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| +_DETAILED_HELP_TEXT = ("""
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| +<B>OVERVIEW</B>
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| + Google Cloud Storage offers two APIs: an XML and a JSON API. Gsutil can
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| + interact with both APIs. By default, gsutil versions starting with 4.0
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| + interact with the JSON API. If it is not possible to perform a command using
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| + one of the APIs (for example, the notification command is not supported in
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| + the XML API), gsutil will silently fall back to using the other API. Also,
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| + gsutil will automatically fall back to using the XML API when interacting
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| + with cloud storage providers that only support that API.
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| +
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| +<B>CONFIGURING WHICH API IS USED</B>
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| + To use a certain API for interacting with Google Cloud Storage, you can set
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| + the 'prefer_api' variable in the "GSUtil" section of .boto config file to
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| + 'xml' or 'json' like so:
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| + prefer_api = json
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| + This will cause gsutil to use that API where possible (falling back to the
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| + other API in cases as noted above). This applies to the gsutil test command
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| + as well; it will run integration tests against the preferred API.
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| +
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| +<B>PERFORMANCE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN APIS</B>
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| + The XML API uses the boto framework. This framework re-reads downloaded files
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| + to compute an MD5 hash if one is not present. For objects that do not
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| + include MD5 hashes in their metadata (for example Google Cloud Storage
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| + composite objects), this doubles the bandwidth consumed and elapsed time
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| + needed by the download. Therefore, if you are working with composite objects,
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| + it is recommended that you use the default value for prefer_api.
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| +""")
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| +class CommandOptions(HelpProvider):
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| + """Additional help about gsutil's interaction with Cloud Storage APIs."""
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| + # Help specification. See help_provider.py for documentation.
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| + help_spec = HelpProvider.HelpSpec(
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| + help_name='apis',
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| + help_name_aliases=['XML', 'JSON', 'api', 'force_api', 'prefer_api'],
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| + help_type='additional_help',
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| + help_one_line_summary='Cloud Storage APIs',
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| + help_text=_DETAILED_HELP_TEXT,
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| + subcommand_help_text={},
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| + )
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