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Thomas De Schampheleire

vcs: fix cloning remote repository with HTTP authentication (Issue #379)

Using a remote clone URI of
http://user:pass@host/...
triggered an exception:

...
E File ".../kallithea/lib/utils.py", line 256, in is_valid_repo_uri
E GitRepository._check_url(url)
E File ".../kallithea/lib/vcs/backends/git/repository.py", line 183, in _check_url
E passmgr.add_password(*authinfo)
E File "/usr/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 848, in add_password
E self.reduce_uri(u, default_port) for u in uri)
E File "/usr/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 848, in <genexpr>
E self.reduce_uri(u, default_port) for u in uri)
E File "/usr/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 875, in reduce_uri
E host, port = splitport(authority)
E File "/usr/lib/python3.7/urllib/parse.py", line 1022, in splitport
E match = _portprog.fullmatch(host)
E TypeError: cannot use a string pattern on a bytes-like object

The authinfo tuple is obtained via mercurial.util.url, which unfortunately
returns a tuple of bytes whereas urllib expects strings.
It seems that mercurial internally has some more hacking around urllib as
urllibcompat.py, which we don't use.

Therefore, transform the bytes into strings before passing authinfo to
urllib. As the realm can be None, we need to check it specifically otherwise
safe_str would return a string 'None'.

A basic test that catches the mentioned problem is added, even though it
does not actually test that cloning with auth info will actually work (it
only tests that it fails cleanly if the URI is not reachable).

Additionally, one use of 'test_uri' in hg/repository.py still needed to be
transformed from bytes to string. For git this was already ok.

.. _customization:

=============
Customization
=============

There are several ways to customize Kallithea to your needs depending on what
you want to achieve.


HTML/JavaScript/CSS customization
---------------------------------

To customize the look-and-feel of the web interface (for example to add a
company banner or some JavaScript widget or to tweak the CSS style definitions)
you can enter HTML code (possibly with JavaScript and/or CSS) directly via the
*Admin > Settings > Global > HTML/JavaScript customization
block*.


Style sheet customization with Less
-----------------------------------

Kallithea uses `Bootstrap 3`_ and Less_ for its style definitions. If you want
to make some customizations, we recommend to do so by creating a ``theme.less``
file. When you create a file named ``theme.less`` in directory
``kallithea/front-end/`` inside the Kallithea installation, you can use this
file to override the default style. For example, you can use this to override
``@kallithea-theme-main-color``, ``@kallithea-logo-url`` or other `Bootstrap
variables`_.

After creating the ``theme.less`` file, you need to regenerate the CSS files, by
running::

    kallithea-cli front-end-build --no-install-deps

.. _bootstrap 3: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/3.3/
.. _bootstrap variables: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/3.3/customize/#less-variables
.. _less: http://lesscss.org/


Behavioral customization: rcextensions
--------------------------------------

Some behavioral customization can be done in Python using ``rcextensions``, a
custom Python package that can extend Kallithea functionality.

With ``rcextensions`` it's possible to add additional mappings for Whoosh
indexing and statistics, to add additional code into the push/pull/create/delete
repository hooks (for example to send signals to build bots such as Jenkins) and
even to monkey-patch certain parts of the Kallithea source code (for example
overwrite an entire function, change a global variable, ...).

To generate a skeleton extensions package, run::

    kallithea-cli extensions-create -c my.ini

This will create an ``rcextensions`` package next to the specified ``ini`` file.
See the ``__init__.py`` file inside the generated ``rcextensions`` package
for more details.


Behavioral customization: code changes
--------------------------------------

As Kallithea is open-source software, you can make any changes you like directly
in the source code.

We encourage you to send generic improvements back to the
community so that Kallithea can become better. See :ref:`contributing` for more
details.