I do suggest the repository, because it seems like the more TOSCA way to do
this. These are special imports that are not part of the CSAR but rather
provided in a special way by ARIA. A special repository seems to be the
right way to handle this.

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 2:40 AM, D Jayachandran <[email protected]
> wrote:

> Hi Tal,
>
> I had a space between the plugin and filename. The correct one would like
> this.
>
> import
>   - plugin:openstack-1.0
>
> By this way it won't conflict with YAML convention. Do you still suggest
> to use the repository conventions ?
>
> Regards,
> DJ
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tal Liron [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 9:38 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Contribution for https://issues.apache.org/
> jira/browse/ARIA-118
>
> I think the format you suggest is awkward in YAML. Because ":" is
> reserved, you would have to wrap the string in quotes:
>
> imports:
>  - this/is/a/string/import.yaml
>  - this is also a string .yaml
>  - "plugins: but here we have to add quotes because of the colon.yaml"
>
> The TOSCA way to handle name ambiguity is to use a repository in the
> long-form of the import. What we can do is create a built-in repository
> called "plugins". So it would look like this:
>
> imports:
>  - mytypes.yaml
>  - repository: plugins
>    file: openstack.yaml
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 3:49 AM, D Jayachandran <
> [email protected]
> > wrote:
>
> > Hi Tal,
> >
> > With respect to this JIRA issue.
> > I would like to contribute on the first part, which is specific to
> > plugin implementation.
> >
> > " If a plugin contained its plugin.yaml as part of its wagon archive,
> > then once installed, users could import the yaml file more easily
> > using a notation such as plugins/openstack.yaml (or perhaps
> > openstack.yaml, having the import mechanism iterate over plugins
> > looking for this resource file or so)"
> >
> > Instead of "plugins/openstack.yaml", I would like to suggest the
> > following
> > "plugins: openstack-<version>"
> > Please let me know if this fine with you.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > DJ
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tal Liron [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2017 6:24 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: Contribution for https://issues.apache.org/
> > jira/browse/ARIA-118
> >
> > It's unassigned, so I don't see why not!
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 7:41 AM, D Jayachandran <
> > [email protected]
> > > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Do you have any plans on working on this JIRA issue ?
> > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARIA-118
> > > Can we contribute on this ?
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > DJ
> > >
> >
>

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