node-imgmanifest

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node-imgmanifest is a node.js lib for working with SmartOS image manifests.

The SmartOS/SDC Image world involves a number of pieces:

1. The imgadm tool in SmartOS for installing and managing images for VM creation.
2. The IMGAPI server in SmartDataCenter instances.
3. The Joyent Images API, https://images.joyent.com.
4. Possibly 3rd-party IMGAPI instances.
5. *-imgadm tools for managing the above API servers.

Most or all of these require being able to upgrade and validate image manifests. This is the library for it.

Usage

var imgmanifest = require('imgmanifest');

// The latest Image manifest format version, i.e. the 'v' field
// in a manifest.
console.log(imgmanifest.V);

// Upgrade a manifest to the latest manifest format version.
var manifest = imgmanifest.upgradeManifest(manifest);

// Validate a manifest, according to the "minimal" requirements.
// "Minimal" requirements are those that, e.g., 'imgadm install'
// requires and that 'imgadm create' creates. It does require
// the manifest to include fields that are added by an IMGAPI
// repository. Returns null if the manifest is valid.
var errs = imgmanifest.validateMinimalManifest(manifest);

Note: Current implementation of manifest validation here is incomplete.

Validation Errors

The errs returned by a validate*Manifest function is an array of objects, e.g.:

[
    {
        "field": "name",
        "code": "MissingParameter",
    },
    {
        "field": "os",
        "code": "Invalid",
        "message": "invalid os, \"my-os\", must be one of: smartos, linux, windows, other"
    }
]

Each error object will always include "field" and "code" keys and may include a "message" string field. Current error "code" values are:

||MissingParameter||A required parameter was not provided.|| ||Invalid||The formatting of the field is invalid.||

Note: This error format is based on https://mo.joyent.com/docs/eng/master/#error-handling.