[jira] [Assigned] (ARIA-118) plugin.yaml importing

["Thomas Nadeau (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARIA-118?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Thomas Nadeau reassigned ARIA-118:
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    Assignee: Thomas Nadeau  (was: D Jayachandran)

> plugin.yaml importing
> ---------------------
>
>                 Key: ARIA-118
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARIA-118
>             Project: AriaTosca
>          Issue Type: Story
>            Reporter: Ran Ziv
>            Assignee: Thomas Nadeau
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: plugins, wishlist
>
> Using a plugin currently requires a user first installs the plugin (using PluginManager), then import the relevant plugin.yaml file in the service template file. The import will currently likely point to a URL, or be a path relative to the service-template yaml file.
> Some ideas for improvement and easing the import;
>  - If a plugin contained its plugin.yaml as part of its wagon archive, then once installed, users could import the yaml file more easily using a notation such as {{plugins/openstack.yaml}} (or perhaps {{openstack.yaml}}, having the import mechanism iterate over plugins looking for this resource file or so)
>  - The import mechanism could look for imports in the resource-storage as well - There could be a directory on the resource-storage designated for storing global yaml files for import, thereby simplifying reuse of yaml imports across service-templates.
>  - Perhaps ARIA should also support importing yaml files by using paths relative to the service-template's package root (as opposed to only looking for paths relative to the current yaml file)? Note that this could lead to ambiguities in some cases.
> Note that the last two don't necessarily have to do with plugins directly, but it's more likely to be relevant for plugins as they're used across service-templates more often.



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