Expose an example config.yaml over the registry's REST api

[jmartisk]

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/QUARKUS-3155

[gastaldi]

Nice, Can we have a test for that endpoint too?

[jmartisk]

I've added a test, please check, not sure what else it would make sense to verify

[aloubyansky]

I'd prefer the API, it should be easy to create a config object and serialize it. We made it easy for the files but I think the mappers are exposed through the API too.

[maxandersen]

not following what is the point of this end point?

the generated content is unnecessary in 99% of all usecases is it not?

[aloubyansky]

99% of all use-cases? :D

[aloubyansky]

We could introduce an option to enable this endpoint. It helps automate QE processes.

[maxandersen]

Just trying to grok when it QE need to specify all these Settings?

[maxandersen]

Just to be explicit:

In what scenario is it we prefer the registry config is using absolute explicit overrides like setting the maven url over using the derived value (meaning we don't test the usecase 99% of users use - just setting the registry id) ?

And then if I read this pr right this code will generate using the host name the service itself thinks it is running on rather than the necessary the host name users access it with ? That is normally considered a bad thing security wise that a service does that as it reveals details on the internal infrastructure which can be used to create attacks.

That's the context of my question.

If there are a need to generate sample configs with this full kind of info isn't it better done with a api or cli command ? And if really part of the service - have it use the actual user provided hostname setup?

[aloubyansky]

The user in this case would QE. Our staging/QE registries actually never had hosts derivable from registry IDs. The logic deriving config from registry ID is pretty much unit tested. Until now we had a single staging registry, however it's not scaling when testing multiple builds of the same stream. So now for every build we spin up a pre-configured registry instance, the URL of which will be included in a UMB message QE receives and triggers testing automatically. Adding this endpoint will help fetch the proper config to configure the client tools. It doesn't have to be enabled on registries running in production.

[maxandersen]

Sure - but still; why not just have a command/code separate from the registry that qe and others can adjust to what it needs separate from what build of the registry is used?

[aloubyansky]

Because it'd be probably the easiest way to get the config. Although not the only one.

[jmartisk]

Changes in my latest update:

• Switched to YAML serializer instead of building a String manually
• Only expose this new endpoint if quarkus.registry.expose.client.config.yaml=true (I had to move the REST method to a separate class to be able to do that...)

[gastaldi]

Superseded by https://github.com/quarkusio/registry.quarkus.io/pull/201