salt/rfcs/0001-adding-package-logic-to-loader.md

• Feature Name: adding_python_package_logic_to_loader
• Start Date: 2018-06-29
• RFC PR:
• Salt Issue:

Summary

Add support for python packages to the loader. Instead of just having apache.py, we would have salt/modules/apache/__init__.py, and all the other modules under that directory loaded in the apache.<function> namespace that we already have.

Motivation

Split modules out into different git repositories, and allow the community more control to help maintain them.

Design

This should be pretty straight forward, we should be able to use the same _module_dirs that we are using now, and iterate over the files, and if they are a directory, then we load all of the modules underneath it into the namespace of the directory.

Heirarchy would be alphabetical, and we would need to log messages if the function exists in an earlier file that has been loaded.

Alternatives

Unresolved questions

Drawbacks