Customer data is available in lots of different formats. The tool provides a plugin loading mechanism for transforming that data into the dsl format used by the tool.
This provides an extension mechanism for writing customer plugins for doing the conversion.
The plugin technology is based on hashicorp go-plugin a RPC based solution for Go plugins.
An interface is defined that plugin authors must implement:
// Arguments - composite for passing data across net/rpc
type Arguments struct {
InputDirectory string
CmdLineArgs []string
}
// Transformer is the interface that must be implemented by plugin authors.
type Transformer interface {
Devices(args Arguments) (dsl.Devices, error)
}The sample plugin provides a transform for mapping CSV files into the Device dsl required by Healthbot.
The plugin expects to parse CSV files in the following format:
device-id,host,username,password
mx1,10.0.0.1,root,changeme
mx2,10.0.0.2,root,"changeme now"
mx3,10.0.0.3,,