Good questions. Here was my thinking when modeling them. In pulp2, we associate a distributor with either a repository or a repository group. Because of this, modeling as:
Distributor
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-----------------------------------
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RepositoryDistributor GroupDistributor
made sense to me.
I don't know of any use cases whereby we'd need/want a distributor that is not
associated with a repository or
repository group. Unless, we get rid of repository groups as they exist in
pulp2. If we did we /could/
collapse the model down to just a Distributor.
As for the importer, I mainly modeled as:
Importer
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------------------------
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RepositoryImporter
for symmetry with distributors. In pulp2, we do not have a use case for an
importer that is not associated
with a repository that I'm aware of. But, I still feel that there is value in
having the symmetry with
distributors. There has been discussion of revising Alternate-Content-Sources
to leverage theDeferred
Downloading (Lazy) catalog and machinery. Preliminary thinking was that an
alternate content source /could/
be an importer that was associated with the deferred downloading catalog but
not associated with a repository.
However, this idea has not gone beyond high-level brainstorming.
We may want to consider how well django migrations would handle a significant
change in this model. I have
seen the generated migrations deal with significant structure changes poorly
but I assume we can write a
custom migration as needed.
On 09/06/2016 03:35 PM, Brian Bouterse wrote:
> The current Django modeled Importer [0] and Distributor [1] allow for these
> objects to be associated or
> unassociated with a repository. I'm familiar with the use cases that motivate
> associating a
> importer/distributor with a repository, but what are the use cases around an
> Importer/Distributor to exist
> without being associated with a repo? Is there something that we already do
> which would require this?
>
> [0]:
> https://github.com/pulp/pulp/blob/28029cdc59fb5b8aef3975464df498a6496f9138/platform/pulp/platform/models/repository.py#L221
>
> [1]:
> https://github.com/pulp/pulp/blob/28029cdc59fb5b8aef3975464df498a6496f9138/platform/pulp/platform/models/repository.py#L271
>
>
> -Brian
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