Bug 123458 – [GTK] Put cache files in XDG_CACHE_HOME

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: WebKitGTK

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

It looks like webkit is placing some cache in ~/.local/share/webkit ($XDG_DATA_HOME). That should probably go in ~/.cache/webkit ($XDG_CACHE_HOME)

[Enrique Ocaña]

There are three places where XDG env vars are used:

WebKit/gtk/webkit/webkitapplicationcache.cpp: * $XDG_CACHE_HOME/webkitgtk/applications and cannot be modified.
WebKit/gtk/webkit/webkiticondatabase.cpp: * ~/.local/share/webkit/icondatabase, depending on XDG_DATA_HOME.
WebKit/gtk/webkit/webkitwebsettings.cpp:    * "enable-html5-local-storage". The default path is $XDG_DATA_HOME/webkit/databases/.

The icon database can be considered "cache". The HTML5 local storage can't, and sould remain where it is by default. However, it can be changed by the application via the "html5-local-storage-database-path" property in WebKitWebSettings.

I'm going to prepare a patch to change the icon database path.

[Enrique Ocaña]

Created attachment 219058 [details]
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[Enrique Ocaña]

BTW, found more places where XDG_DATA_HOME is used, but they seem to be persistent data that shouldn't be moved to cache:

$ git grep g_get_user_data_dir
Source/WebKit/gtk/webkit/webkitglobals.cpp:    GOwnPtr<gchar> databaseDirectory(g_build_filename(g_get_user_data_dir(), "webkit", "databases", NULL));
Source/WebKit/gtk/webkit/webkitglobals.cpp:    GOwnPtr<gchar> iconDatabasePath(g_build_filename(g_get_user_data_dir(), "webkit", "icondatabase", NULL));
Source/WebKit/gtk/webkit/webkitwebsettings.cpp:    GOwnPtr<gchar> localStoragePath(g_build_filename(g_get_user_data_dir(), "webkit", "databases", NULL));
Source/WebKit2/UIProcess/API/gtk/WebKitWebContext.cpp: * default directory for the platform (see g_get_user_data_dir()).
Source/WebKit2/UIProcess/gtk/WebContextGtk.cpp:    GOwnPtr<gchar> databaseDirectory(g_build_filename(g_get_user_data_dir(), "webkitgtk", "databases", NULL));
Source/WebKit2/UIProcess/gtk/WebContextGtk.cpp:    GOwnPtr<gchar> databaseDirectory(g_build_filename(g_get_user_data_dir(), "webkitgtk", "icondatabase", NULL));
Source/WebKit2/UIProcess/gtk/WebContextGtk.cpp:    GOwnPtr<gchar> storageDirectory(g_build_filename(g_get_user_data_dir(), "webkitgtk", "localstorage", NULL));
Tools/DumpRenderTree/gtk/DumpRenderTree.cpp:    GOwnPtr<gchar> localStoragePath(g_build_filename(g_get_user_data_dir(), "DumpRenderTreeGtk", "databases", NULL));
Tools/DumpRenderTree/gtk/DumpRenderTree.cpp:    GOwnPtr<char> fallback(g_build_filename(g_get_user_data_dir(), "gtkwebkitdrt", "databases", NULL));
Tools/GtkLauncher/main.c:    iconDatabasePath = g_build_filename(g_get_user_data_dir(), "webkit", "icondatabase", NULL);

[Enrique Ocaña]

Created attachment 219658 [details]
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[Sergio Villar Senin]

Comment on attachment 219658 [details]
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View in context: https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=219658&action=review

The change looks good to me.

> Source/WebKit/gtk/ChangeLog:10
> +

The format of the ChangeLog is not correct. You have to use Tools/Scripts/prepare-Changelog to properly generate it.

> Source/WebKit2/ChangeLog:9
> +

Ditto.

> Tools/ChangeLog:9
> +

Ditto.

[Enrique Ocaña]

Thanks. The inclusion of the git log message confused me.

[Enrique Ocaña]

Created attachment 219740 [details]
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[Martin Robinson]

Comment on attachment 219740 [details]
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View in context: https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=219740&action=review

Looks good, but a few small suggestions before landing this. You can just upload a new version with the Reviewed by line filled in and then I can commit it with the commit queue.

> Source/WebKit/gtk/ChangeLog:3
> +        https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123458

This changelog is missing a newline.

> Source/WebKit2/ChangeLog:3
> +        [GTK] Put cache files in XDG_CACHE_HOME
> +        https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123458

This one too.

> Tools/GtkLauncher/main.c:242
> -    iconDatabasePath = g_build_filename(g_get_user_data_dir(), "webkit", "icondatabase", NULL);
> +    iconDatabasePath = g_build_filename(g_get_user_cache_dir(), "webkit", "icondatabase", NULL);

It's probably a good moment to actually put this into a GtkLauncher subdirectory instead of "webkit"

[Enrique Ocaña]

Created attachment 221479 [details]
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[WebKit Commit Bot]

Comment on attachment 221479 [details]
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Rejecting attachment 221479 [details] from commit-queue.

Failed to run "['/Volumes/Data/EWS/WebKit/Tools/Scripts/webkit-patch', '--status-host=webkit-queues.appspot.com', '--bot-id=webkit-cq-03', 'apply-attachment', '--no-update', '--non-interactive', 221479, '--port=mac']" exit_code: 2 cwd: /Volumes/Data/EWS/WebKit

Last 500 characters of output:
t/webkitglobals.cpp.rej
patching file Source/WebKit/gtk/webkit/webkiticondatabase.cpp
patching file Source/WebKit2/UIProcess/gtk/WebContextGtk.cpp
Hunk #1 FAILED at 122.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file Source/WebKit2/UIProcess/gtk/WebContextGtk.cpp.rej
patching file Tools/ChangeLog
Hunk #1 succeeded at 1 with fuzz 3.
patching file Tools/GtkLauncher/main.c

Failed to run "[u'/Volumes/Data/EWS/WebKit/Tools/Scripts/svn-apply', '--force']" exit_code: 1 cwd: /Volumes/Data/EWS/WebKit

Full output: http://webkit-queues.appspot.com/results/6529999087599616

[Enrique Ocaña]

Created attachment 222120 [details]
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[WebKit Commit Bot]

Comment on attachment 222120 [details]
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Clearing flags on attachment: 222120

Committed r162714: <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/162714>

[WebKit Commit Bot]

All reviewed patches have been landed.  Closing bug.