Resources that can be grouped into the http:server resource must have
that prefix. Grouping is basically hierarchical, and without that common
prefix, it means we'd have to special-case our grouping algorithm.
Initially I wasn't 100% clear or decided on the send/recv semantics.
After some experimenting, I think this is much closer to what we want.
Nothing should break or regress here, this only enables more
possibilities.
Many years ago I built and demoed a prototype of a simple web ui with a
slider, and as you moved it left and right, it started up or shutdown
some number of virtual machines.
The webui was standalone code, but the rough idea of having events from
a high-level overview flow into mgmt, was what I wanted to test out. At
this stage, I didn't even have the language built yet. This prototype
helped convince me of the way a web ui would fit into everything.
Years later, I build an autogrouping prototype which looks quite similar
to what we have today. I recently picked it back up to polish it a bit
more. It's certainly not perfect, and might even be buggy, but it's
useful enough that it's worth sharing.
If I had more cycles, I'd probably consider removing the "store" mode,
and replace it with the normal "value" system, but we would need the
resource "mutate" API if we wanted this. This would allow us to directly
change the "value" field, without triggering a graph swap, which would
be a lot less clunky than the "store" situation.
Of course I'd love to see a GTK version of this concept, but I figured
it would be more practical to have a web ui over HTTP.
One notable missing feature, is that if the "web ui" changes (rather
than just a value changing) we need to offer to the user to reload it.
It currently doesn't get an event for that, and so don't confuse your
users. We also need to be better at validating "untrusted" input here.
There's also no major reason to use the "gin" framework, we should
probably redo this with the standard library alone, but it was easier
for me to push out something quick this way. We can optimize that later.
Lastly, this is all quite ugly since I'm not a very good web dev, so if
you want to make this polished, please do! The wasm code is also quite
terrible due to limitations in the compiler, and maybe one day when that
works better and doesn't constantly deadlock, we can improve it.
This commit implements a range function that mimicks python's range
built-in by having a start, stop, and range argument. There's also
a few examples and tests to mimick Python's examples to guarantee
we're consistent with their behaviour.
This adds initial symlink support to the file resource, and while it is
hopefully correct, there are always sneaky edge cases around symlinks
and security, so review and tests are highly encouraged!
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This lets us look at the available resource data for collection, and to
filter it so we can decide what we want to collect on our machine.
Other types of collect functions could be added in the future.
I've been waiting to write this patch for a long time. I firmly believe
that the idea of "exported resources" was truly a brilliant one, but
which was never even properly understood by its original inventors! This
patch set aims to show how it should have been done.
The main differences are:
* Real-time modelling, since "once per run" makes no sense.
* Filter with code/functions not language syntax.
* Directed exporting to limit the intended recipients.
The next step is to add more "World" reading and filtering functions to
make it easy and expressive to make your selection of resources to
collect!
This is a basic implementation of a detection method for whether mgmt is
running in a virtualized environment. We achieve this by doing two types
of checks: on one hand, we check if the CPU flags can confirm the
presence of a virtualized env; on the other, we check if the presence
of known files related with DMI (and their contents) can confirm whether
we're inside a virt env. Either of these situations will cause the
function to return true, with the default case being false. All of these
checks are relatively naive and can be improved by looking at the main
inspiration for this implementation, which was systemd's own check for
the presence of virtualization.
This adds a forkv statement which is used to iterate over a map with a
body of statements. This is an important data transformation tool which
should be used sparingly, but is important to have.
An import statement inside of a forkv loop is not currently supported.
We have a simple hack to detect the obvious cases, but more deeply
nested scenarios probably won't be caught, and you'll get an obscure
error message if you try to do this.
This was incredibly challenging to get right, and it's all thanks to Sam
for his brilliance.
Note, I couldn't think of a better keyword that "forkv" but suggestions
are welcome if you think you have a better idea. Other ideas were formap
and foreach, but neither got me very excited.
This adds a for statement which is used to iterate over a list with a
body of statements. This is an important data transformation tool which
should be used sparingly, but is important to have.
An import statement inside of a for loop is not currently supported. We
have a simple hack to detect the obvious cases, but more deeply nested
scenarios probably won't be caught, and you'll get an obscure error
message if you try to do this.
This was incredibly challenging to get right, and it's all thanks to Sam
for his brilliance.
Co-authored-by: Samuel Gélineau <gelisam@gmail.com>
This adds a new util package with some useful functionality which could
be implemented as pure mcl, but instead we add it here as a good place
to help with code reuse.
This makes tar archives from a list of files and/or directories. It
correctly includes empty directories as well. The code structure is
similar to the gzip resource. While this resource is arguably more
useful than gzip, it was invaluable to write the gzip resource first
since that made writing this one much easier.
This may have lots of uses, particularly for bootstrapping and handoff
if we want to compress payloads. It is also a good model resource for
how to implement such a resource to avoid re-computing the result on
every CheckApply call. Of course if the computation is cheaper than the
hashing of the data this isn't the optimal approach.
This gives us a function to return a created vardir folder. It is not
locally namespaced, and a future function will have to namespace one to
each scope.
If you had ambiguous code, and specified an invalid type, this could
sneak through and become a runtime error, instead of a compile-time
error. We fix this and add a test.
This adds the ability to offer a dhcp lease to someone when we don't
know their mac address in advance.
This also uses the extended autogrouping API to keep the internal API
simpler.
This adds a standard gate that prevents execution if a file exists. Of
note, this also adds a watch on it, so we can have a proper watched exec
resource without a watch cmd.
The new version of the urfave/cli library is moving to generics, and
it's completely unclear to me why this is an improvement. Their new API
is very complicated to understand, which for me, defeats the purpose of
golang.
In parallel, I needed to do some upcoming cli API refactoring, so this
was a good time to look into new libraries. After a review of the
landscape, I found the alexflint/go-arg library which has a delightfully
elegant API. It does have a few rough edges, but it's otherwise very
usable, and I think it would be straightforward to add features and fix
issues.
Thanks Alex!
This adds a new caching http proxy resource that can be autogrouped into
the core http:server resource, and which caches and serves files that it
received from a different http server. It first pulls them down when
they are initially requested, which makes it possible for us to use this
for provisioning a Linux installation without having to pre-rsync the
entire package repository.
