Issue #5877 has been updated by Luke Kanies.

Status changed from Needs Decision to Closed

This is done now, with the faces work.
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Feature #5877: Data-specific applications should be added
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5877

Author: Luke Kanies
Status: Closed
Priority: Normal
Assignee: Nigel Kersten
Category: executables
Target version: 
Affected Puppet version: 
Keywords: 
Branch: luke/prototype/master/data_app


I've been discussing this on the list and such, and it's doing well enough that 
I figure it's time to actually open a ticket for it.

Basically, for every kind of data that Puppet cares about, there should be an 
application that knows how to handle that data.  As a first pass, that 
application would just provide actions that map directly to the Indirector 
verbs.  E.g.:
<pre>
puppet catalog find <hostname>
</pre>
Additional desired features are:

* Applications should be extensible with new actions; e.g., 'update' to update 
catalogs
* New actions should be able to be downloaded with plugin_sync and thus 
available on all hosts

I've got a relatively complete but still simple prototype in the associated 
branch.

One concern I have about my prototype is that these actions aren't really 
usable across multiple applications, I expect.

E.g., if we create facts.send, catalog.update, and catalog.apply, we could 
reasonably replace the agent's default actions by just calling those three 
things.  However, I don't think the current Application system would support 
that very well, because they would expect to parse ARGV and such.


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