IdentifierGenerator.ts

import type { ResourceIdentifier } from '../../http/representation/ResourceIdentifier';

/**
 * Utility class for generating container identifiers.
 */
export interface IdentifierGenerator {
  /**
   * Generates container identifiers based on an input name.
   * This is simply string generation, no resource-related checks are run.
   */
  generate: (name: string) => ResourceIdentifier;

  /**
   * Extracts the root pod this identifier would be in.
   * This assumes the identifier of that pod was generated by the same instance of this interface.
   */
  extractPod: (identifier: ResourceIdentifier) => ResourceIdentifier;
}