is there any way to specify an address spec to choose a part Pants #development

is there any way to specify an address spec to cho...

fast-nail-55400

03/29/2022, 1:38 PM

is there any way to specify an address spec to choose a particular resolve? for example, maybe something like

src/jvm::@resolve=foo

— this could select all targets at or under

src/jvm

that have

resolve=foo

fast-nail-55400

03/29/2022, 1:39 PM

context is the BSP rules and providing users with a way to select a single resolve for a BSP build target. An alternate way would be to actually examine

resolve

fields on the selected Pants targets and filter to a single resolve. But if we had an address spec syntax already, that would let me avoid having filtering code for just the BSP rules.

fast-nail-55400

03/29/2022, 1:39 PM

cc @witty-crayon-22786

hundreds-father-404

03/29/2022, 1:57 PM

there is not - Stu and I want to add something like

./pants --filter-field-value=resolve=python_resolve ::

, i.e. promote filter to be builtin rather than distinct goal so you don't need xargs; and add --field-value

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witty-crayon-22786

03/29/2022, 5:04 PM

the syntax is definitely a possibility, yea. i’m starting https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/14521 today, and will try to prepare for that possibility. but in the near term,

filter

is likely to be required. we also (surprisingly!) don’t yet have a way to filter by a field value.

fast-nail-55400

03/29/2022, 5:07 PM

for now, I am going to have a resolve filter that is specific to the BSP targets config file.

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fast-nail-55400

03/29/2022, 5:08 PM

if there is an address spec syntax later, we can always migrate to it

witty-crayon-22786

03/29/2022, 5:08 PM

yea, sounds reasonable.

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