theupdateframework / theupdateframework/python-tuf
ngclient: feature request "download target as bytes"
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Description
From #1317: When client downloads files it does not always need them written into an actual file, often it just wants the content: providing API the returns just bytes would be fine. We should still cache the target to disk but client could avoid reading the file if we provided variants of download_target() and find_cached_target() that returned bytes.
the only complication here might be that we really might want to provide an iterator[bytes] (because there could be a lot of bytes)... If that is possible that would be cool but that might be more complicated
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Research direction
Start by locating the ngclient implementations of download_target() and find_cached_target(). Review how they cache targets to disk and determine whether byte-returning variants or an iterator are appropriate; done means clients can obtain content without separately reading the cached file while existing caching behavior remains intact.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- api
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100