winery

Support of multiple repositories

• Status: pending
• Deciders: Lukas Harzenetter, Sascha Zeller
• Date: 2019-04-18

Technical Story: Pull Request 124

Context and Problem Statement

To help developers obtain TOSCA elements in a more practical way, an approach to supporting multiple repositories distributed across different servers is presented here. The result provides the ability to define a set of URLs and load them into the current winery-repository.

Considered Options

• Merge the content of the repositories inside the winery-repository
• Use a similar approach like npm and declare each repository as a module

Decision Outcome

Option 2 was chosen to manage each repository individually. This makes it possible to use existing version control systems in the individual repositories.

The repositories are structured as follows.

Positive Consequences

• User can search for elements online and load a repository using the url
• It’s enough to send a URL instead of a CSAR
• Manage each repository independently
• The origin and the version history of a repository can be checked
• The possibility to contribute directly to the development of a repository

Negative consequences

• User is forced to define namespaces in Namespaces.json.
• Additional configuration file (repositories.json)

Usage

1. Make sure the winery-repository is empty (or move existing files into a new folder called “workspace”)
2. Create a repositories.json in the root directory of the repository
   1. Create a new object inside the json file
   2. For each repository you want to add
      1. Use the URL of the repository as a String element
      2. Use the Branch name as a value for the element (also as String)
      3. Separate each element with a comma
   3. Example:

     {
        "https://github.com/OpenTOSCA/tosca-definitions-public" : "master",
        "https://github.com/winery/test-repository" : "master"
     }
   

3. Start Server and UI

License

Copyright (c) 2019 Contributors to the Eclipse Foundation

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SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0 OR Apache-2.0

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