This change overhauls the way we do object monikers. The old mechanism,
generating monikers using graph paths, was far too brittle and prone to
collisions. The new approach mixes some amount of "automatic scoping"
plus some "explicit naming." Although there is some explicitness, this
is arguably a good thing, as the monikers will be relatable back to the
source more readily by developers inspecting the graph and resource state.
Each moniker has four parts:
<Namespace>::<AllocModule>::<Type>::<Name>
wherein each element is the following:
<Namespace> The namespace being deployed into
<AllocModule> The module in which the object was allocated
<Type> The type of the resource
<Name> The assigned name of the resource
The <Namespace> is essentially the deployment target -- so "prod",
"stage", etc -- although it is more general purpose to allow for future
namespacing within a target (e.g., "prod/customer1", etc); for now
this is rudimentary, however, see marapongo/mu#94.
The <AllocModule> is the token for the code that contained the 'new'
that led to this object being created. In the future, we may wish to
extend this to also track the module under evaluation. (This is a nice
aspect of monikers; they can become arbitrarily complex, so long as
they are precise, and not prone to false positives/negatives.)
The <Name> warrants more discussion. The resource provider is consulted
via a new gRPC method, Name, that fetches the name. How the provider
does this is entirely up to it. For some resource types, the resource
may have properties that developers must set (e.g., `new Bucket("foo")`);
for other providers, perhaps the resource intrinsically has a property
that explicitly and uniquely qualifies the object (e.g., AWS SecurityGroups,
via `new SecurityGroup({groupName: "my-sg"}`); and finally, it's conceivable
that a provider might auto-generate the name (e.g., such as an AWS Lambda
whose name could simply be a hash of the source code contents).
This should overall produce better results with respect to moniker
collisions, ability to match resources, and the usability of the system.
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