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.
This adds a new http:flag resource which can autogroup into an
http:server resource to receive actions from client HTTP requests, and
forward these values on to other resources.
Previously the resource could only set values in a per-hostname
namespace, but for single, user-managed values, we'd like to be able to
control things entirely. Now this resource can do that.
This implements a new type of syntactic sugar for the common pattern of
a base class which returns a child class, and so on. Instead of needing
to repeatedly indent the child classes, we can instead prefix them at
the definition site (where created with the class keyword) with the name
of the parent class, followed by a colon, to get the desired embedded
sugar.
For example, instead of writing:
class base() {
class inner() {
class deepest() {
}
}
}
You can instead write:
class base() {
}
class base:inner() {
}
class base:inner:deepest() {
}
Of course, you can only access any of the inner classes by first
including (with the include keyword) a parent class, and then
subsequently including the inner one.
This adds support for `include as <identifier>` type statements which in
addition to pulling in any defined resources, it also makes the contents
of the scope of the class available to the scope of the include
statement, but prefixed by the identifier specified.
This makes passing data between scopes much more powerful, and it also
allows classes to return useful classes for subsequent use.
This also improves the SetScope procedure and adds to the Ordering
stage. It's unclear if the current Ordering stage can handle all code,
or if there exist corner-cases which are valid code, but which would
produce a wrong or imprecise topological sort.
Some extraneous scoping bugs still exist, which expose certain variables
that we should not depend on in future code.
Co-authored-by: Samuel Gélineau <gelisam@gmail.com>
We've previously not received a value from within an autogrouped
resource. It turns out this would be quite useful, and so this patch
implements the additional plumbing and testing so that this works!
Testing that an autogrouped resource can still send values has not been
done at this time.
This adds a new series of "get*" functions which can read values from
the associated "value" resources. The key name of the function must
match the name value of the resource for things to work.
Type unification isn't yet perfect in these scenarios, so you should use
casually and with caution.
This modifies the panic feature to accept a boolean or a string. If true
or not empty, then it will cause the panic. This makes some of the error
code a little less ugly.
This is a newer implementation of the panic magic. I kept the old commit
in for posterity and to show the difference. The two versions are
identical to the end-user with one exception: the newer version doesn't
include a useless panic resource in the graph when there is no panic. In
this version, the panic function returns false and the if statement it's
the condition of, doesn't produce the resource within. On error, we
still consume the function in the if expression, and doing so causes
everything to shutdown.
The other benefit is that the implementation is much cleaner and doesn't
need the interpolate hack.
It's valuable to check your runtime values and to shut down the entire
engine in case something doesn't match. This patch adds some magic
plumbing to support a "panic" mechanism.
A new "panic" statement gets transparently converted into a panic
function and panic resource. The former errors if the input is not
empty. The latter must be present to consume the value, but doesn't
actually do anything.
This is a strange resource which is probably most useful for passing
values between scopes. It supports a variant resource field, and should
only be used as a last resort and if you know exactly what you're doing.
It's a normally named function for now, until we think of a common
package to move it into.
Hopefully this makes improving the lexer and parser easier for now. We
can consider bringing it back if needed.
