[Pulp-dev] Plugin relationship to tasks

[Austin Macdonald]

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>    - /api/v3/repositories/<uuid>/versions/ endpoint does not perform
>    plugin specific validation which can lead to "broken" repository versions.
>    - Plugin authors don't have any convention to follow when creating
>    custom REST API endpoints for creating repository versions.
>    - As a result of ^, a user will have a hard time identifying
>    repository version creation APIs in different plugins.
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I agree with these points.

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> My first inclination is to disable the ability to POST to
> /api/v3/repositories/<uuid>/versions/ and require users to use the plugin
> specific APIs for creating repository versions. However, I think that
> integrators of build systems that produce a variety of content types would
> have a lot more flexibility if they could use a single generic API endpoint
> to create a repository version independent of the content type.
>
> Let's continue this discussion by answering the following question:
>
>    - Should we disable the ability to POST to /api/v3/repositories/<uuid>/versions/
>    and require users to always use a plugin specific repository version
>    creation API?
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> Yes, I think we should disable POST to /api/v3/repositories/<uuid>/
versions/

Simplifying integration is important, but we should not sacrifice
correctness enforcement.
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