Hmm. It's interesting that if I wrote this as a series of Java classes, I could put this in the dropins folder, and load a set of catalog entries in one go. I imagine that isn't possible for yaml -- turn them into an OSGi bundle? I notice also that resources (files, etc) can be specified as on the classpath. Any hope that we could do that for catalog items?
Thanks Graham From: Geoff Macartney <[email protected]> To: Brooklyn dev <[email protected]> Date: 03/10/2017 11:07 AM Subject: Re: Catalog "bundle" hi Graham One point worth mentioning in relation to https://github.com/apache/brooklyn-server/pull/485 is that it will provide the ability to upload via the REST API, but there will still be further work needed to make this easy to use. I plan to do some changes to the command line client "br" to allow it to make use of the new API when it arrives, so that you'll be able to do something like "br upload ..." and it will upload a zip of your project. I'm not sure that anyone's discussed adding this to the UI yet but that might be something for the future as well. Cheers Geoff On Fri, 10 Mar 2017 at 14:56 Thomas Bouron <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Graham. > > Uploading a ZIP file to Brooklyn is indeed a good idea. The good news is, > there is a PR to support this in `brooklyn-server`[1]. The slightly less > good news is that it's still in review and therefore not available yet in > the stable version. > > However, there are few of workarounds this. > > You could host your different bom files anywhere you want, then reference > those into your main BOM file like so: > ``` > brooklyn.catalog: > id: your-id > items: > - item: http://..... > - item: http://..... > ``` > > Or you could create a JAR with all your resources inside then reference > this in your main BOM file, similar to what Clocker does[2]. > > Finally, you would just distribute your main BOM file to other users. > > [1] https://github.com/apache/brooklyn-server/pull/485 > [2] https://github.com/brooklyncentral/clocker/blob/master/clocker.bom > > On Fri, 10 Mar 2017 at 14:15 Graham Ashby <[email protected]> wrote: > > > (Not an OSGi bundle...) > > I've developed a set of YAML catalog entries for defining my application. > > Now I want to be able to distribute them so other people can load them > > into their Brooklyn server. > > I see that there are ways of defining an initial catalog, but as I see > it, > > this is a single file. In my case, I have a number of separate catalog > > entries, so I don't want to embed them into a single yaml file. > Including > > them doesn't really work either, as then I'd need to know in advance > > exactly what was in my set. > > What I'd ideally like is to be able to, say, point the server at a zip > > file of catalog entries, and have them all loaded. > > I tried reading through the code, so I have suspicions it could be done, > > but I'm not sure how. > > > > So, is there a way to do this? The zip file (or whatever) would probably > > be on the local file system. > > > > Thanks > > Graham > > > > -- > > Thomas Bouron • Software Engineer @ Cloudsoft Corporation • > http://www.cloudsoftcorp.com/ > Github: https://github.com/tbouron > Twitter: https://twitter.com/eltibouron >
