[pve-devel] [RFC PATCH guest-common 1/1] add profiles section config plugin

[Fiona Ebner]

Am 06.11.23 um 11:12 schrieb Fiona Ebner:
> Am 06.11.23 um 10:34 schrieb Dominik Csapak:
>> On 11/6/23 10:22, Fiona Ebner wrote:
>>> Am 03.11.23 um 12:53 schrieb Dominik Csapak:
>>>> +my $defaultData = {
>>>> +    propertyList => {
>>>> +    type => { description => 'Profile type.' },
>>>> +    id => {
>>>> +        type => 'string',
>>>> +        description => "The ID of the profile.",
>>>> +        format => 'pve-configid',
>>>> +    },
>>>
>>> The ID is usually not a property AFAIK. Doesn't this lead to duplication
>>> when writing the section config, i.e.
>>>
>>> type: <ID>
>>>     id <ID>
>>>
>>> ? Do we gain anything by having it be a property?
>>
>> mhm? the id has to be part of the properties, otherwise
>> the generated api with 'createSchema' etc. would not include it.
>>
>> (it isn't always named id, e.g. in the storage plugins
>> it's 'storage')
>>
> 
> I was just reminded of [0], where it could lead to that situation. Would
> need to check if that patch still applies, because since then
> Jobs/RealmSync.pm has been added.
> 
> But somebody needs to filter the 'storage' property, right? Isn't that
> property actually superfluous?
> 

Well, it seems to be needed by the current storage config API
implementation. For the backup job API, it's no issue if no 'id'
property is declared explicitly in the config schema.

> E.g.
> 
> root at pve8a1 ~ # pvesm set pbsenc --storage foobar
> root at pve8a1 ~ # pvesm add dir foo --storage bar --path /var/lib/vz
> root at pve8a1 ~ # grep bar /etc/pve/storage.cfg
> 1 root at pve8a1 ~ #
> 
> [0]: https://lists.proxmox.com/pipermail/pve-devel/2022-November/054714.html
>