On Fri 11 May 2018 at 17:32, Jesse Glick <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 11:14 AM, nicolas de loof > <[email protected]> wrote: > > we discover "jenkins" has a "securityRealm" attribute and some > > implementation can be used to set this attribute. This directly defines > the > > yaml tree. But the codebase has no reference to this structure. > > Right. So, again, the version would not be referring to the existence > or semantics of a `securityRealm` attribute. It would be referring to > the logic that governs how the `Jenkins.getSecurityRealm()` method is > mapped to a YAML attribute of that name, and how a particular > `SecurityRealm` subtype is identified in its value. Now the case of > the attribute name is pretty simple, of course—JavaBeans naming > convention—but there can be more subtle cases: handling of symbol > annotations or lack of them (which already comes up in the handling of > `ldap` in this example!), collection types, getter/setter/constructor > type mismatches, handling of secrets¹, convenience aliases, deprecated > members, and so on. > > Experience with the `structs` plugin and its binding to Pipeline > Script in `workflow-cps` indicates that there are plenty of hard > problems to solve and it is not uncommon for the surface syntax to > need to be changed in response. For Pipeline (talking about Scripted > now) we never had a formal “language version” or anything like that, > which has caused plenty of headaches trying to maintain compatibility > with old scripts. I think JCasC will hit analogous issues. > > > ¹Whenever that is actually formalized. As it needs to be, IMO, for > 1.0—you cannot just say that the Credentials plugin maintainer is > going to solve this for you. Yeah, I advise against relying on me to fix schema version problems for you :-P > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CANfRfr23zwVvy3RQxD7F_POsgDZxMtSt2vgM%3DGugGF913RTS%2Bw%40mail.gmail.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Sent from my phone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CA%2BnPnMwB%2BBCH2M5GiyfLiudpx%2Biaxchq7ZzbFi5hCeGccKuPBA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
