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.
- 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
This makes it clear that this should be used with care
It is potentially more expensive to create the full object, therefore it should be discouraged by its longer name
This listing is implemented based on the basic listing, where each item is turned into the bigger machine class
