[Pulp-dev] Importer Name

[Brian Bouterse]

I left some responses inline.

On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 11:13 AM, Austin Macdonald <austin at redhat.com> wrote:

> Motivation:
> The name "importer" carries some inaccurate implications.
> 1) Importers should "import". Tasks like "sync" will do the actual
> importing. The object only holds the configuration that happens to be used
> by sync tasks.
> 2) Sync tasks on mirror mode remove content as well as add it, so "import"
> isn't quite right.
>
> Proposed name: Remote
>
> The inspiration for remote is "git remote". In git, remotes represent
> external repositories, which is almost exactly what our importers do.
>

I'm +0 thinking that either name is fine but that those unfamiliar with
git, but those familiar with git would benefit from the name change.


>
> -------------------------------------------------------
> Part 2: Trim the fields
>
> Currently, Importers have settings that can be categorized in 2 ways. I am
> proposing removing the "sync settings" from the Remote model:
>
> External Source information
>     name
>     feed_url
>     validate
>     ssl_ca_certificate
>     ssl_client_certificate
>     ssl_client_key
>     ssl_validation
>     proxy_url
>     username
>     password
>
> Sync settings
>     download_policy
>     sync_mode
>
> This had some advantages when Importers were related to Repositories. For
> example, having a repository.importer that always used the same sync mode
> made sense. However, the "how" to sync settings don't make much sense when
> importers and repositories are not linked. It seems very reasonable that a
> user might have 2 repositories that sync from the same source (ex EPEL). It
> does not make sense for them to have create an Importer for the EPEL
> repository twice or more just to change sync_mode or download policy.
> Instead of modeling these fields, I propose that they should POST body
> parameters.
>
> example
>
> POST v3/remotes/1234/sync/ repositorty=myrepo_href sync_mode=additive,
> dl_policy=immediate
> POST v3/remotes/1234/sync/ repositorty=myother_href sync_mode=mirror,
> dl_policy=deferred
>

+1 to this change. I think this makes sense to specify the sync_mode and
dl_policy with sync params with each download because the Importer having
one policy apply to any repo that uses it does not make much sense.


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