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+"""Right now this is a dummy module, but it should wrap the ctypes API and
+allow running this more easily without the SWIG bindings.
+"""
+from csvn import repos
+
+class Revision(object):
+    """Wrapper for a Subversion revision.
+    """
+    def __init__(self, revnum, author, message, date, paths, strip_path=''):
+        self.revnum, self.author, self.message = revnum, author, message
+        # TODO parse this into a datetime
+        self.date = date
+        self.paths = {}
+        for p in paths:
+            self.paths[p[len(strip_path):]] = paths[p]
+
+    def __str__(self):
+        return 'r%d by %s' % (self.revnum, self.author)
+
+
+class SubversionRepo(object):
+    """Wrapper for a Subversion repository.
+
+    This uses the SWIG Python bindings, and will only work on svn >= 1.4.
+    It takes a required param, the URL.
+    """
+    def __init__(self, url=''):
+        self.svn_url = url
+
+        self.init_ra_and_client()
+        self.uuid = ra.get_uuid(self.ra, self.pool)
+        repo_root = ra.get_repos_root(self.ra, self.pool)
+        # *will* have a leading '/', would not if we used get_repos_root2
+        self.subdir = url[len(repo_root):]
+        if not self.subdir or self.subdir[-1] != '/':
+            self.subdir += '/'
+
+    def init_ra_and_client(self):
+        # TODO(augie) need to figure out a way to do auth
+        self.repo = repos.RemoteRepository(self.svn_url)
+
+    @property
+    def HEAD(self):
+        raise NotImplementedError
+
+    @property
+    def START(self):
+        return 0
+
+    @property
+    def branches(self):
+        """Get the branches defined in this repo assuming a standard layout.
+        """
+        raise NotImplementedError
+
+    @property
+    def tags(self):
+        """Get the current tags in this repo assuming a standard layout.
+
+        This returns a dictionary of tag: (source path, source rev)
+        """
+        raise NotImplementedError
+
+    def _get_copy_source(self, path, cached_head=None):
+        """Get copy revision for the given path, assuming it was meant to be
+        a copy of the entire tree.
+        """
+        raise NotImplementedError
+
+    def list_dir(self, dir, revision=None):
+        """List the contents of a server-side directory.
+
+        Returns a dict-like object with one dict key per directory entry.
+
+        Args:
+          dir: the directory to list, no leading slash
+          rev: the revision at which to list the directory, defaults to HEAD
+        """
+        raise NotImplementedError
+
+    def revisions(self, start=None, chunk_size=1000):
+        """Load the history of this repo.
+
+        This is LAZY. It returns a generator, and fetches a small number
+        of revisions at a time.
+
+        The reason this is lazy is so that you can use the same repo object
+        to perform RA calls to get deltas.
+        """
+        # NB: you'd think this would work, but you'd be wrong. I'm pretty
+        # convinced there must be some kind of svn bug here.
+        #return self.fetch_history_at_paths(['tags', 'trunk', 'branches'],
+        #                                   start=start)
+        # this does the same thing, but at the repo root + filtering. It's
+        # kind of tough cookies, sadly.
+        raise NotImplementedError
+
+
+    def fetch_history_at_paths(self, paths, start=None, stop=None,
+                               chunk_size=1000):
+        raise NotImplementedError
+
+    def get_replay(self, revision, editor, oldest_rev_i_have=0):
+        raise NotImplementedError
+
+    def get_unified_diff(self, path, revision, deleted=True, ignore_type=False):
+        raise NotImplementedError
+
+    def get_file(self, path, revision):
+        raise NotImplementedError
+
+    def proplist(self, path, revision, recurse=False):
+        raise NotImplementedError
+
+    def fetch_all_files_to_dir(self, path, revision, checkout_path):
+        raise NotImplementedError
+
+class SubversionRepoCanNotReplay(Exception):
+    """Exception raised when the svn server is too old to have replay.
+    """