Re: Application API

At first, JLM had some review comments, most of which got addressed
in the later commits to that PR (those between August 2017 and
January 2018).

The last open item was to come up with a reasonable default
implementation of local state for scripts (it's OO, so it doesn't
have to be perfect for everything, any script can override with a
custom implementation, but there should be some built-in implementation
good enough for most purposes). Scripts can need local state
because the existing mechanism for scripts to set properties can only
pass the properties to later-invoked /applications/, not to other
scripts (or to the same script, say, in a later post-* invocation).

My preferred design idea for that open item was in

  https://marc.info/?l=amanda-hackers&m=151120396810173&w=2

but I didn't get any community feedback; the message thread kind of
trails off at that point.

-Chap


On 12/12/18 9:48 AM, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
> Hm, any idea why that hasn't been merged?  That's an awful long time with
> no response.  It seems like there's a lot more interest from non-Zmanda
> folks than Zmanda folks for the last year+.
> 
> Perhaps it's time to consider a fork?
> 
> Can someone from Zmanda comment on why this PR has been left open, and why
> so few commits in the last year?
> 
> Dustin
> 
> Op wo 12 dec. 2018 om 09:09 schreef Chapman Flack <[email protected]>:
> 
>> On 12/12/18 00:15, Olivier wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Is there information available about writting an Amanda plugin, beside
>>> the wiki page at
>>> http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Application_API/Operations
>>>
>>> I have found that the information in the wiki are incomplete:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> The not-yet-applied pull request #78 addresses a lot of the incomplete
>> points in the Application/Script API documentation (and also fleshes out
>> the API itself so there is less implementation that every application
>> developer has to duplicate).
>>
>>   https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/pull/78
>>
>> The notes on that pull request should be helpful for more insight into
>> the issues involved.
>>
>> If you are starting out to develop an application without the PR#78 code,
>> you may find very helpful the thread of -hackers messages that were
>> necessary while developing it, to pin down the precise meaning of a lot
>> of points in the current documentation. That thread is here:
>>
>>   http://marc.info/?l=amanda-hackers&s=coding+an+Application+in+perl
>>
>> You'll probably find in there the specific issue you ran into here, as
>> well as others that you might not have run into yet.
>>
>> Regards,
>> -Chap
>>
>