[Toaster] [PATCH 0/5] replace custom loadconf with loaddata

[Michael Wood]

On 02/08/16 14:32, Michael Wood wrote:
> Replace the custom loadconf command with django's own inbuilt loaddata command.
> Django's command is much better tested, supports multiple formats and makes for much easier customisation of Toaster.
>
> We check the TEMPLATECONF value to determine if Toaster is running within poky or OpenEmbedded-core. And fallback if no value is found.
> Based on this we can load default data for the correct environment the first time you run Toaster.
>
>   - settings.xml This contains Toaster wide settings, such as the default values for
>     certain bitbake variables.
>
>   - poky.xml This is the release metadata for supported poky based setup
>
>   - oe-core.xml This is the release metadata for supported oe-core based setups
>
> As we also want to allow customisation of Toaster at start up added is a mechanism to load a "custom" fixture if present in the fixtures directory (see README).
>
> After this is merged we can. Remove toasterconf.json in the OpenEmbedded-core layer and the copy in the meta-poky layer.
>
> While testing this I added one unrelated patch which is to add a spinner for parsing/http fetch on the layerindex fetcher - When on a slow connection/machine it's not clear if downloading and parsing the data from the Layerindex is still underway so add some visual feedback.
>
> Michael Wood (5):
>    toaster: Add poky and openembedded configuration fixtures
>    toaster: checksettings call django's loaddata instead of custom
>      command
>    toaster: lsupdates Add spinner for parsing/http fetch
>    toaster: Remove old toaster config loading mechanism
>    toaster: fixtures Add README
>
>   bitbake/bin/toaster                                |  18 +--
>   .../management/commands/checksettings.py           |  88 +++++-----
>   .../bldcontrol/management/commands/loadconf.py     | 179 ---------------------
>   bitbake/lib/toaster/orm/fixtures/README            |  30 ++++
>   bitbake/lib/toaster/orm/fixtures/oe-core.xml       |  57 +++++++
>   bitbake/lib/toaster/orm/fixtures/poky.xml          | 105 ++++++++++++
>   bitbake/lib/toaster/orm/fixtures/settings.xml      |  36 +++++
>   .../toaster/orm/management/commands/lsupdates.py   |  35 +++-
>   8 files changed, 307 insertions(+), 241 deletions(-)
>   delete mode 100644 bitbake/lib/toaster/bldcontrol/management/commands/loadconf.py
>   create mode 100644 bitbake/lib/toaster/orm/fixtures/README
>   create mode 100644 bitbake/lib/toaster/orm/fixtures/oe-core.xml
>   create mode 100644 bitbake/lib/toaster/orm/fixtures/poky.xml
>   create mode 100644 bitbake/lib/toaster/orm/fixtures/settings.xml
>
Forgot to mention the branch is available at poky-contrib 
michaelw/toaster_replace_loadconf

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