diff --git a/NOTES.md b/NOTES.md index 1c59fc0..e9938b6 100644 --- a/NOTES.md +++ b/NOTES.md @@ -2,31 +2,22 @@ Aliases: from a local file, kinda like requirements.txt, maps name to hash, either package/module name, or an author/public key name. - This has to be treated specially. If two aliases appear to be the same, but one is fetched a "secure" IPFS hash, it MUST be compared w/ what ever secure hash the two aliases had in common. Otherwise a malicious package could "pretend" that it hash the sha256 that's the same, but provide a bad IPFS hash, and then we'd load the malicous package instead + This has to be treated specially. If two aliases appear to be the same, but one is fetched a "secure" IPFS hash, it MUST be compared w/ what ever secure hash the two aliases had in common. Otherwise a malicious package could "pretend" that it hash the sha256 that's the same, but provide a bad IPFS hash, and then we'd load the malicous package instead. Example: from cas.a.jmg.utils import aiter, anext -Make sure that when an alias is used, that the same module is returned when a -direct hash import is used. - -Local cache: - if a directory like ~/.cas_cache exists, use it's contents automatically, - and if it's writable, write any network fetched imported data to it. +How to handle inventory? + wrapper that keeps track of what hashes got loaded? write out to a mapping file? + Or maybe a command given a url or ipfs, generates the necessary aliases + urls for it? Features: add: file - url - ipfs hash git(?)hub? - init cache: - -Loading resources from yourself (package): - sys.modules[__name__] returns a valid module while your are being initalized, even for __main__, though may not work due to it not being a package, but probably can be emulated via __file__ - use importlib.resources: https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/importlib.html#module-importlib.resources - > Loaders that wish to support resource reading should implement a get_resource_reader(fullname) method as specified by importlib.abc.ResourceReader. +This will be needed for cas imported packages that use cas themselves: +> Loaders that wish to support resource reading should implement a get_resource_reader(fullname) method as specified by importlib.abc.ResourceReader. Hash options: