tree 6b7b4fc311578c470781015383971cf1a1f700c6
parent 40a5fb270762abd2414dc75564a2d974fbe5d656
author Ed Tanous <ed@tanous.net> 1716073643 -0700
committer Ed Tanous <ed@tanous.net> 1716913713 +0000

Generate metadata at runtime

In the initial implementation of metadata indexing the bmc knew at
compile time what schemas it could potentially publish.  bmcweb took the
approach of adding all schemas of all versions to the $metadata
resource.  Since that was made, two major changes have happened.
First, Redfish has added significantly more versions of each schema, as
well as significantly more schemas to the point where the metadata index
is now 213KB.  While this file compresses fairly well, the size is
obvious from the large amount of time that redfish service validator
takes to parse the schemas, compared to actually acquiring BMC redfish
resources.
Second, aggregation was added, where an aggregated Redfish service might
implement any number of schemas, including OEM ones.

In an effort to fix this, this patch takes the compile-time algorithm in
update_schemas.py, and moves it into bmcweb itself, parsing the files on
disk as needed on demand.  This has some immediate benefits;  First, is
that now schemas can be potentially installed from anywhere, not only
from within the bmcweb build, and they will be resolved at runtime.

Second, patches that want to add support for a given schema need to only
symlink the schema into the correct folder, without needing to rerun
update_schemas.py.  This saves time in review.

Finally, this opens to door to reducing the schema versions present in
the metadata to the unique set of only what this bmcweb instance, and
its aggregated BMCs expose.

Tested: Redfish service validator passes.  Need A/B checking to verify
the file is byte for byte the same.
GET /redfish/v1/$metadata returns what looks like sane results, with a
correct content-type.
Unit tests require the use of TemporaryFileHandle, so that class is
moved into a more general folder, outside of test/http.

Change-Id: I326159099c6b6c4056023b2e173c5f074ed88ce1
Signed-off-by: Ed Tanous <ed@tanous.net>