When calling loadBefore, collapse outstanding calls.

IOW, if there's an outstanding call is made for a given oid and tid,
and another call is made, the second call will use the result of the
outstanding call, rather than making another call to the server.

src/ZEO/asyncio/client.py

@@ -240,6 +240,17 @@ def call(self, future, method, args):
     def promise(self, method, *args):
         return self.call(Promise(), method, args)
 
+    def load_before(self, oid, tid):
+        # Special-case loadBefore, so we collapse outstanding requests
+        message_id = (oid, tid)
+        future = self.futures.get(message_id)
+        if future is None:
+            future = asyncio.Future(loop=self.loop)
+            self.futures[message_id] = future
+            self._write(
+                self.encode(message_id, False, 'loadBefore', (oid, tid)))
+        return future.add_done_callback
+
     # Methods called by the server.
     # WARNING WARNING we can't call methods that call back to us
     # syncronously, as that would lead to DEADLOCK!
@@ -519,14 +530,17 @@ def load_before_threadsafe(self, future, oid, tid):
         if data is not None:
             future.set_result(data)
         elif self.ready:
-            @self.protocol.promise('loadBefore', oid, tid)
-            def load_before(data):
-                future.set_result(data)
-                if data:
-                    data, start, end = data
-                    self.cache.store(oid, start, end, data)
-
-            load_before.catch(future.set_exception)
+
+            @self.protocol.load_before(oid, tid)
+            def load_before(load_future):
+                try:
+                    data = load_future.result()
+                    future.set_result(data)
+                    if data:
+                        data, start, end = data
+                        self.cache.store(oid, start, end, data)
+                except Exception as exc:
+                    future.set_exception(exc)
         else:
             self._when_ready(self.load_before_threadsafe, future, oid, tid)
 

src/ZEO/asyncio/tests.py

@@ -71,6 +71,8 @@ def pop(self, count=None, parse=True):
 
 class ClientTests(Base, setupstack.TestCase, ClientRunner):
 
+    maxDiff = None
+
     def start(self,
               addrs=(('127.0.0.1', 8200), ), loop_addrs=None,
               read_only=False,
@@ -191,9 +193,11 @@ def testClientBasics(self):
         # Loading objects gets special handling to leverage the cache.
         loaded = self.load_before(b'1'*8, m64)
 
-        # The data wasn't in the cache, so we make a server call:
-        self.assertEqual(self.pop(), (5, False, 'loadBefore', (b'1'*8, m64)))
-        self.respond(5, (b'data', b'a'*8, None))
+        # The data wasn't in the cache, so we made a server call:
+        self.assertEqual(self.pop(),
+                         ((b'1'*8, m64), False, 'loadBefore', (b'1'*8, m64)))
+        # Note load_before uses the oid as the message id.
+        self.respond((b'1'*8, m64), (b'data', b'a'*8, None))
         self.assertEqual(loaded.result(), (b'data', b'a'*8, None))
 
         # If we make another request, it will be satisfied from the cache:
@@ -206,9 +210,16 @@ def testClientBasics(self):
 
         # Now, if we try to load current again, we'll make a server request.
         loaded = self.load_before(b'1'*8, m64)
-        self.assertEqual(self.pop(), (6, False, 'loadBefore', (b'1'*8, m64)))
-        self.respond(6, (b'data2', b'b'*8, None))
+
+        # Note that if we make another request for the same object,
+        # the requests will be collapsed:
+        loaded2 = self.load_before(b'1'*8, m64)
+
+        self.assertEqual(self.pop(),
+                         ((b'1'*8, m64), False, 'loadBefore', (b'1'*8, m64)))
+        self.respond((b'1'*8, m64), (b'data2', b'b'*8, None))
         self.assertEqual(loaded.result(), (b'data2', b'b'*8, None))
+        self.assertEqual(loaded2.result(), (b'data2', b'b'*8, None))
 
         # Loading non-current data may also be satisfied from cache
         loaded = self.load_before(b'1'*8, b'b'*8)
@@ -219,9 +230,10 @@ def testClientBasics(self):
         self.assertFalse(transport.data)
         loaded = self.load_before(b'1'*8, b'_'*8)
 
-        self.assertEqual(self.pop(),
-                         (7, False, 'loadBefore', (b'1'*8, b'_'*8)))
-        self.respond(7, (b'data0', b'^'*8, b'_'*8))
+        self.assertEqual(
+            self.pop(),
+            ((b'1'*8, b'_'*8), False, 'loadBefore', (b'1'*8, b'_'*8)))
+        self.respond((b'1'*8, b'_'*8), (b'data0', b'^'*8, b'_'*8))
         self.assertEqual(loaded.result(), (b'data0', b'^'*8, b'_'*8))
 
         # When committing transactions, we need to update the cache
@@ -244,8 +256,8 @@ def finished_cb(tid):
                          cache.load(b'4'*8))
         self.assertEqual(cache.load(b'1'*8), (b'data2', b'b'*8))
         self.assertEqual(self.pop(),
-                         (8, False, 'tpc_finish', (b'd'*8,)))
-        self.respond(8, b'e'*8)
+                         (5, False, 'tpc_finish', (b'd'*8,)))
+        self.respond(5, b'e'*8)
         self.assertEqual(committed.result(), b'e'*8)
         self.assertEqual(cache.load(b'1'*8), None)
         self.assertEqual(cache.load(b'2'*8), ('committed 2', b'e'*8))
@@ -257,8 +269,9 @@ def finished_cb(tid):
         loaded = self.load_before(b'1'*8, m64)
         f1 = self.call('foo', 1, 2)
         self.assertFalse(loaded.done() or f1.done())
-        self.assertEqual(self.pop(), [(9, False, 'loadBefore', (b'1'*8, m64)),
-                                      (10, False, 'foo', (1, 2))],
+        self.assertEqual(self.pop(),
+                         [((b'1'*8, m64), False, 'loadBefore', (b'1'*8, m64)),
+                          (6, False, 'foo', (1, 2))],
                          )
         exc = TypeError(43)
 
@@ -720,7 +733,9 @@ def load(self, oid):
     def store(self, oid, start_tid, end_tid, data):
         assert start_tid is not None
         revisions = self.data[oid]
-        revisions.append((start_tid, end_tid, data))
+        data = (start_tid, end_tid, data)
+        if not revisions or data != revisions[-1]:
+            revisions.append(data)
         revisions.sort()
 
     def loadBefore(self, oid, tid):