[pbs-devel] [PATCH proxmox-backup] api types: add missing conf to blob archive name mapping

[Fabian Grünbichler]

On November 26, 2024 1:35 pm, Thomas Lamprecht wrote:
> Am 26.11.24 um 13:24 schrieb Christian Ebner:
>> Commit addfae26 ("api types: introduce `BackupArchiveName` type")
>> introduced a dedicated archive name api type to add rust type
>> checking and bundle helpers to the api type. Since this, the backup
>> archive name to server archive name mapping is handled by its parser.
> 
> This is mostly relevant for the client or? I.e., this has no impact on
> community implementations/experiments adding completely different archive
> types?

yes, this is just a UX shortcut that allows leaving out the .blob
extension for blob types used by our stack. if you use a custom blob
type, you need to specify the full name including .blob when passing the
name to the client.

the reason is that with a generic catch-all matching to blob, we'd take
away our ability to add new index types without breaking clients relying
on that magic.

i.e., if a client could do `restore ... my_custom_blob.foobar`, we can't
add a `foobar` index/archive type ourselves later on without breaking
that client.