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Author SHA1 Message Date
James Shubin
4803be1987 misc: Rename mgmtmain to lib and remove global package
This refactor should make it cleaner to use mgmt.
2016-12-08 23:31:45 -05:00
James Shubin
eb545e75fb resources: Re-order send/recv display messages.
The updated order is more logical, and follows the time sequence.
2016-12-06 14:42:06 -05:00
James Shubin
597ed6eaa0 resources: Polish the password PoC and build out send/recv
This polishes the password resource so that it can actually avoid
writing the password to disk, and so that the work actually happens in
CheckApply where it can properly interact with the graph. This resource
now re-generates the password when it receives a notification.

The send/recv plumbing has been extended so that receivers can detect
when they're receiving new values. This is particularly important if
they might otherwise not expect those values to change and cache them
for efficiency purposes.
2016-12-06 02:29:47 -05:00
James Shubin
07fd2e88a2 resources: Fix poke/refresh race
Clearly the use of errgroup is flawed.
1) You can't pass in variables, so this is likely to race.
2) You can't get a set of errors, so this is a bad API.

For the second problem, it would be much more sane to return a multierr
or a list of errors. If there's no fix for the first, I think it should
be removed from the lib.
2016-12-04 21:06:08 -05:00
James Shubin
639afe881c resources: Reduce logging on Send/Recv
This was too noisy, let's tone it down a bit.
2016-12-03 01:44:36 -05:00
James Shubin
2e718c0e9d resources: Improve notification system and notify refreshes
Resources can send "refresh" notifications along edges. These messages
are sent whenever the upstream (initiating vertex) changes state. When
the changed state propagates downstream, it will be paired with a
refresh flag which can be queried in the CheckApply method of that
resource.

Future work will include a stateful refresh tracking mechanism so that
if a refresh event is generated and not consumed, it will be saved
across an interrupt (shutdown) or a crash so that it can be re-applied
on the subsequent run. This is important because the unapplied refresh
is a form of hysteresis which needs to be tracked and remembered or we
won't be able to determine that the state is wrong!

Still to do:
* Update the autogrouping code to handle the edge notify properties!
* Actually finish the stateful bool code
2016-12-03 01:35:31 -05:00
James Shubin
ba6044e9e8 resources, pgraph: split logical chunks into separate files 2016-12-03 00:07:29 -05:00
James Shubin
7f1c13a576 resources: Implement Send -> Recv
This is a new design idea which I had. Whether it stays around or not is
up for debate. For now it's a rough POC.

The idea is that any resource can _produce_ data, and any resource can
_consume_ data. This is what we call send and recv. By linking the two
together, data can be passed directly between resources, which will
maximize code re-use, and allow for some interesting logical graphs.

For example, you might have an HTTP resource which puts its output in a
particular file. This avoids having to overload the HTTP resource with
all of the special behaviours of the File resource.

For our POC, I implemented a `password` resource which generates a
random string which can then be passed to a receiver such as a file. At
this point the password resource isn't recommended for sensitive
applications because it caches the password as plain text.

Still to do:
* Statically check all of the type matching before we run the graph
* Verify that our autogrouping works correctly around this feature
* Verify that appropriate edges exist between send->recv pairs
* Label the password as generated instead of storing the plain text
* Consider moving password logic from Init() to CheckApply()
* Consider combining multiple send values (list?) into a single receiver
* Consider intermediary transformation nodes for value combining
2016-12-03 00:07:29 -05:00