File Support

For now, we've disabled the performance tests: https://github.com/pulp/pulp_file/pull/345

The setup method which generates fixtures for the performance tests is dumping objects into the directory "/usr/local/lib/pulp/lib/python3.7/site-packages/rest_framework/static/fixtures/". This directory was chosen as a workaround for serving the fixtures through NGINX locally at http :80/static/rest_framework/fixtures/. But the script does not have permissions to write to the directory "/usr/local/lib/" in Travis.

Therefore, we need to change the way of how we generate the fixtures. When I was porting the performance tests to pulp_file, there was not a way for serving fixtures locally via REST API. Now, we do have support for generating fixtures locally, see https://pulp.plan.io/issues/5872 and https://pulp.plan.io/issues/5913.

As a first step, I added a new fixture in the repository pulp-fixtures (https://github.com/pulp/pulp-fixtures/pull/135). Travis failed because of a large amount of log data was being printed out during the execution (https://api.travis-ci.com/v3/job/278060877/log.txt). If we could fix this and merge the pull request, the fixture shall be served by NGINX "locally" in a separate container and the only thing that needs to be changed then is the repository's endpoint for the fixture in pulp_file.

Thanks for the update and clearly defining the problem. Would it be possible to pipe the stdout from this line to /dev/null?

https://github.com/pulp/pulp-fixtures/blob/7d986a5f1d584d1b9480b32c2e56cc0a5571e0aa/file/gen-fixtures.sh#L71