Pulp

Motivation¶

At the moment, it's plugin's responsibility to be sure that any temporary files it's working with are stored in the directory dedicated to a running job. It's done by using the content manager WorkingDirectory.
The context manager doesn't support nesting which causes a usability problem.
Plugin writer needs to carefully create and recreate the working directory every time it deals with files to avoid nesting (e.g. stages API uses WorkingDirectory so some nesting can come from the using of pulpcore code).

Suggestion¶

• let tasking management in pulpcore take care of managing the working directory for every job (even if it doesn't need it)
• raise DeprecationWarning for the context manager WorkingDirectory
• make the context manager WorkingDirectory no-op since pulpcore sets the directory for any job
• file a task to remove the deprecation and the context manager on Y+1 version of pulpcore