On Wed, 2015-10-07 at 12:24 -0400, Dusty Mabe wrote: > Hi, > > In the container-tools team we have been having discussions about the > lifecycle of an atomicapp. We have essentially decided that there are > more verbs that we want to use than those that are defined in the > Generic > Labels [1]. Vasek has proposed an idea [2] that I think would be > useful > for atomic cli to support. > > The idea is more or less to support an application developer being > able to define his/her own verbs to allow the user to call from > atomic > CLI. Since it is up to the application to define them they don't have > to make sense in any other application. The application could still > implement INSTALL/RUN/UNINSTALL etc, but they could define more that > would enable them to provide a better user experience. > > In Vasek's suggestion he proposed that the > io.projectatomic.atomic.cmd.unpack=.* > label would correspond to `atomic unpack`. I would prefer that the > label scheme (whatever it is) actually map to a top level primitive > in > atomic cli so that the user knows what he/she is doing. For example, > rather than `atomic unpack <appname>` it would map to `atomic > exelabel unpack <appname>` > or `atomic runlabel unpack <appname>`. > > Regardless of the specific implementation, which can be decided > later, > I think a mechanism for arbitrary run labels would be useful. I can > propose this to [1] and eventually send a PR to atomic cli if this is > useful. > > - Dusty > > [1] - > https://github.com/projectatomic/ContainerApplicationGenericLabels > [2] - https://gist.github.com/goern/d8910ba7a10ff26bc8f2#gistcomment- > 1565065 > Hello, I think that you might be interested in HICA [0], which works in very similar way that you describe. That is, create semantic namespaces within the reverse-DNS naming scheme: io.isv.CLASS.[ACTION|META] and have that tied to particular code primitives in the CLI implementaion. For HICA, there's a 1:1 mapping between CLASS definitions, called injectors [1], and the label definition itself [2]. [0]: https://github.com/shaded-enmity/docker-hica [1]: https://github.com/shaded-enmity/docker-hica/tree/master/injectors [2]: https://github.com/shaded-enmity/docker-hica/blob/master/docs/labels.md -- Pavel Odvody <podvody redhat com> Software Engineer - EMEA ENG Developer Experience 5EC1 95C1 8E08 5BD9 9BBF 9241 3AFA 3A66 024F F68D Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkyňova 99/71, 612 45, Brno
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