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3. List output customization

Date: 2024-07-11

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Context

This is an enhancement proposal to allow users to customize the output of bomctl list that lists
SBOM Documents by specifying a search expression, filter, or template.

Decision

Update bomctl list to accept an expression to customize the output table of SBOM documents.
This would be similar in functionality to the --format option used by various docker commands.

Either the existing use of positional argument will be retained, or an additional flag (such as
--format or --query) will be added.

The supported search/filter expression syntaxes will be:

  • Common Expression Language (CEL)
  • Go templates
  • GraphQL

The expression would then be parsed to construct a SQL query or call to the ent backend to
retrieve and display the desired table(s)/column(s).

A separate bomctl query command will be used to query/filter nodes, bomctl list is reserved
for finding SBOM Documents.

@puerco recommended reading the store into CEL to simplify listing.

Consequences

This change would allow users greater control over inspecting the contents of their cached SBOMs.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Howard <jonathan.w.howard@lmco.com>
@jhoward-lm jhoward-lm added the documentation Improvements or additions to documentation label Jul 11, 2024
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I don't have an opinion on this. @eddiezane and @ashearin what are your thoughts?

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… meeting on 7/29/2024

Signed-off-by: Ian Dunbar-Hall <ian.dunbar-hall@lmco.com>
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ADR was discussed and approved during the community call on 7/29/2024. Minor updates were added to clarify a separate bomctl query command will be used to filtering nodes.

@idunbarh idunbarh merged commit 3efeeb8 into main Aug 5, 2024
@idunbarh idunbarh deleted the adr/list-output-customization branch August 5, 2024 15:51
@idunbarh idunbarh added the adr Architecture Decision Records use to decide architecture or implementation details of `bomctl` label Aug 26, 2024
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