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

[Ina Panova]

+1 to facilitate the upload process.
At the conferences, there have been many users pointing out how
inconvenient current upload process is .


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Regards,

Ina Panova
Software Engineer| Pulp| Red Hat Inc.

"Do not go where the path may lead,
 go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."


On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 8:42 PM 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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