Motivation: A warning should encourage consistent usage of inventory.machines setting targetHost inside the machine should be considered a custom override
Changing the warning strings to avoid the term 'nix'/'json' both inventory and nixos machines are nix features
Since apply changes the structure of the retuned value, the cache will
be confused about the structure and in subsequent request will use this
wrong structure.
For example: we would use builtins.attrNames on inputs, the flake will
forever think that inputs is a list of strings and will report errors
whenever we try to fetch subkeys from it
Replace all calls to machine.vars_generators() with direct calls to
Generator.generators_from_flake() to make the dependency more explicit
and remove unnecessary indirection.
This reduces coupling to the Machine class, making the codebase more
modular and easier to refactor in the future.
Add comprehensive test coverage for union types with None to prevent
regression of the issubclass() TypeError that was occurring when
checking if None is in a union type.
Motivation: A warning should encourage consistent usage of inventory.machines setting targetHost inside the machine should be considered a custom override
Changing the warning strings to avoid the term 'nix'/'json' both inventory and nixos machines are nix features
- Remove _serialized field from vars interface to prevent serialization
errors with throwing passBackend field
- Implement direct selection of generator fields using multi-select syntax
- Refactor vars_generators() to use new Generator.from_flake() method that
selects only safe fields (avoiding non-serializable values)
- Remove unused legacy methods: Generator.from_json(), Var.from_json(),
Prompt.from_json()
- Update precaching to match new selection approach
This fixes the serialization errors that were preventing vars from working
with the new password-store implementation by avoiding the problematic
_serialized field entirely.
When using multiselect with outPath like {outPath,?meta}, nix evaluation
collapses the attrset to just the outPath string, breaking further selection.
Add validation during selector parsing to catch this and provide a clear error.
- Remove deployment.json file generation from outputs.nix
- Add throw for deprecated deployment.file usage with upgrade instructions
- Remove vars data from deployment.data
- Update Machine class to use direct select() calls instead of deployment property
- Update all deployment property accesses to use direct selectors
- Add precaching for frequently accessed values in update.py:
- Module paths for facts and vars
- Deployment settings (requireExplicitUpdate, nixosMobileWorkaround)
- Services and generators data
- Secret upload locations
- This removes unnecessary JSON serialization and makes the code more composable
- Remove nix(), eval_nix(), and build_nix() methods from Machine class
- Add select() method that handles machine-specific attribute prefixes
- Update all usages to use machine.select() directly
- Handle Path conversion and tmp_store logic at call sites
- This simplifies the Machine API and prepares for deployment.json removal
