The previous commit split the handling of provider instance items into
separate dependency-analysis and execgraph construction steps, with the
intention of avoiding the need for the execGraphBuilder to directly
interact with the planning oracle and thus indirectly with the evaluator.
Overall the hope is that execGraphBuilder will be a self-contained object
that doesn't depend on anything else in the planning engine so that it's
easier to write unit tests for it that don't require creating an entire
fake planning context.
However, on reflection that change introduced a completely unnecessary
extra handoff from the execGraphBuilder to _another part of itself_, which
is obviously unnecessary complexity because it doesn't serve to separate
any concerns.
This is therefore a further simplification that returns to just doing the
entire handling of a provider instance's presence in the execution graph
only once we've decided that at least one resource instance will
definitely use the provider instance during the apply phase.
There is still a separation of concerns where the planGlue type is
responsible for calculating the provider dependencies and then the
execGraphBuilder is only responsible for adding items to the execution
graph based on that information. That separation makes sense because
planGlue's job is to bridge between the planning engine and the evaluator,
and it's the evaluator's job to calculate the dependencies for a provider
instance, whereas execGraphBuilder is the component responsible for
deciding exactly which low-level execgraph operations we'll use to describe
the situation to the apply engine.
Signed-off-by: Martin Atkins <mart@degeneration.co.uk>
Previously we did _all_ of the work related to preparing execgraph items
for provider instances as a side-effect of the ProviderInstance method
of execGraphBuilder.
Now we'll split it into two parts: the first time we encounter each
provider instance during planning we'll proactively gather its dependencies
and stash them in the graph builder. However, we'll still wait until the
first request for the execution subgraph of a provider instance before
we actually insert that into the graph, because that then effectively
excludes from the apply phase any provider instances that aren't needed for
the actual planned side-effects. In particular, if all of the resource
instances belonging to a provider instance turn out to have "no-op" plans
then that provider instance won't appear in the execution graph at all.
An earlier draft of this change did the first dependency capturing step via
a new method of planGlue called by the evaluator, but after writing that
I found it unfortunate to introduce yet another inversion of control
situation where readers of the code just need to know and trust that the
evaluator will call things in a correct order -- there's already enough
of that for resource instances -- and so I settled on the compromise of
having the ensureProviderInstanceDependencies calls happen as part of the
linear code for handling each resource instance object, which makes it far
easier for a future maintainer to verify that we're upholding the contract
of calling ensureProviderInstanceDependencies before asking for an
execgraph result, while still allowing us to handle that step generically
instead of duplicating it into each resource-mode-specific handler.
While working on this I noticed a slight flaw in our initial approach to
handling ephemeral resource instances in the execution graph, which is
described inline as a comment in planDesiredEphemeralResourceInstance.
We'll need to think about that some more and deal with it in a future
commit.
Signed-off-by: Martin Atkins <mart@degeneration.co.uk>
As we've continue to build out the execution graph behavior during the plan
and apply phases we've found that the execgraph package isn't really the
best place for having the higher-level ideas like singleton provider
client operations because that package doesn't have enough awareness about
the planning process to manage those concerns well.
The mix of both high- and low-level concerns in execgraph.Builder was also
starting to make it have a pretty awkward shape where some of the low-level
operations needed to be split into two parts so that the higher-level parts
could call them while holding the builder's mutex.
In response to that here we split the execgraph.Builder functionality so
that the execgraph package part is concerned only with the lowest-level
concern of adding new stuff to the graph, without any attempt to dedupe
things and without care for concurrency. The higher-level parts then live
in a higher-level wrapper in the planning engine's own package, which
absorbs the responsibility for mutexing and managing singletons.
For now the new type in the planning package just has lightly-adapted
copies of existing code just to try to illustrate what concerns belong to
it and how the rest of the system ought to interact with it. There are
various FIXME/TODO comments describing how I expect this to evolve in
future commits as we continue to build out more complete planning
functionality.
Signed-off-by: Martin Atkins <mart@degeneration.co.uk>
