Support json mode for build context transfer - #1739
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* Add "transfer-mode" key to build metadata, and plumb CLI to support "tar", and "json" modes. * Handle json mode in BuildFSSync proxy. Json mode doesn't archive build context, but sends only the file metadata to the builder shim. * Fix constructing file metadata for symlink. i) all ancestor of a symlink target should be included in the file metadata to shim, ii) all child entries under directory target should be included, iii) isDir must be false for symlink.
This enables testing both the tar transfer-mode and json transfer-mode.
Symlink target should be relative to the parent directory of that symlink file, not the file itself.
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This resolves #1515.
This relies on apple/container-builder-shim#84.
Json mode avoids computing overhead on host side due to the archiving of build context. Instead, it feeds file on demand as the buildkitd ask for the file contents. Performance tradeoff depends on each users' workloads. If build context contains lots of files which cannot be ignored, tar mode would be better, if most of the files can be ignored, then json mode is better.
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