adapters

Version Adapters

Adapters are a good and simple way to extend the possibilities of fetching versions. There are already some simple adapters, please have a look at the example config to get an idea how they work.

Add a new Adapter

In order to add a new Adapter you need to ...

1. have a proper adapter folder structure. Currently all adapters are ordered by its technology and transport/method (e.g. http is the technology and transport is get, so the adapter lives in pkg/adapters/http/get/adapter.go` but this is NOT a requirement. If you feel like there could be multiple adapters for the same technology (like multiple transports, methods, commands, ...) then make sure to have a nested adapter pattern already applied.
2. register the AdapterConstructor for your AdapterType in adapters.go. Each AdapterType has to be a unique string and should be defined in the same package as the Adapter and its AdapterConstructor.
3. Have all required config parameters defined in the config. Remember: Config is parsed from YAML, so all kinds of fancy nested types are supported.
4. Have a decent test coverage for your adapter: go test ./... -cover

Adapter Example

For a pretty simple adapter have a look on the ShellCommandAdapter:

• Adapter: ./shell/command/adapter.go
• AdapterConstructor: ./shell/command/constructor.go
• AdapterType: ./shell/command/const.go
• Register the adapter: ./adapters.go