Pulp

Problem¶

The "remote" field in the BaseDistribution triggers the "pull-through" cache behavior in the default content app (https://github.com/pulp/pulpcore/blob/15e28bf669e5c5cb318b06fa59a5b6eadccab817/pulpcore/content/handler.py#L239-L252). While this is the right thing to do for content types that implement pull-through caching, it definitively is not for plugins that do not implement pull-through caching (because they have enough metadata to know the locations of their artifacts).

Currently, it is very easy to trigger this behavior by accident, a user just has to provide a remote when creating a distribution (which is part of the API description).

Solution¶

Remove the field from the BaseDistributionSerializer, i.e. make it invisible & non accessible in the API by default. Plugins that implement pull-through caching will have to add the field to their distribution subclass.