Whiteboard cannot be set by user while provisioning with beaker

[guoguojenna]

Currently the value of Whiteboard is string like ' tmt-008-jpqJPFTI '. Can users set it to a different one? https://beaker.engineering.redhat.com/jobs/8506748

Thank you, Zhaojuan

[happz]

I'm afraid the answer is "no", users cannot set Beaker job whiteboard.

[guoguojenna]

I'm afraid the answer is "no", users cannot set Beaker job whiteboard.

Ok. I think it's a useful feature. Hope it can be added someday.

[idorax]

The whiteboard of beaker job is updated by tmt/steps/provision/mrack.py#L336 , e.g.

   330          def create_host_requirement(self, host: Dict[str, Any]) -> Dict[str, Any]:
   331              """ Create single input for Beaker provisioner """
   332              hardware = cast(Optional[tmt.hardware.Hardware], host.get('hardware'))
   333              if hardware and hardware.constraint:
   334                  host.update({"beaker": self._translate_tmt_hw(hardware)})
   335              req: Dict[str, Any] = super().create_host_requirement(host)
   336              req.update({"whiteboard": host.get("tmt_name", req.get("whiteboard"))})
   337              return req

Let's try to add property whiteboard to BeakerGuestData and try to get the whiteboard from L336.