[Pulp-dev] Changes in the Pulp 3 Upload story

[Matthias Dellweg]

I have no objections to having the "one shot upload" or even "one shot
upload into repositoryversion". I think, i would like to keep the
'traditional' create anyway.
The problem i see with create and one shot upload is, that another
thing could have triggered 'delete orphans' at the wrong time, and you
shiny new content unit disappears, before you can add it to a
repository version.

On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 14:41:54 -0500
Austin Macdonald <austin at redhat.com> wrote:

> Originally, our upload story was as follows:
> The user will upload a new file to Pulp via POST to /artifacts/
> (provided by core)
> The user will create a new plugin specific Content via POST to
> /path/to/plugin/content/, referencing whatever artifacts that are
> contained, and whatever fields are expected for the new content.
> The user will add the new content to a repository via POST to
> /repositories/1/versions/
> 
> However, this is somewhat cumbersome to the user with 3 API calls to
> accomplish something that only took one call in Pulp 2.
> 
> There are a couple of different paths plugins have taken to improve
> the user experience:
> The Python plugin follows the above workflow, but reads the Artifact
> file to determine the values for the fields. The RPM plugin has gone
> even farther and created a new endpoint for "one shot" upload that
> perform all of this in a single call. I think it is likely that the
> Python plugin will move more in the "one shot" direction, and other
> plugins will probably follow.
> 
> That said, I think we should discuss this as a community to encourage
> plugins to behave similarly, and because there may also be a
> possibility for sharing some of code. It is my hope that a "one shot
> upload" could do 2 things: 1) Upload and create Content. 2)
> Optionally add that content to repositories.
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