python wrapper for packer binary

[mayn]

packerlicious is limited to generating json template. This is good.
It would be better if this could be feed directly to the packer binary for processing.

challenge:
create packer.py that can be fed a packerlicious template for things like

• template validation
• template execution

basically a python interface to these commands https://www.packer.io/docs/commands/index.html

should:

• check if the binary is available, fail with an error saying that it was not found otherwise
• capture output from command and make available in a pythonic format

may:

• work when ran on linux + windows (

[Hrily]

I would like to take this up.
Any suggestions on how to start...

[mayn]

hi @Hrily , thanks for your interest.
I updated the requirements a bit to give you a high level idea of what to do.

in its simplest form:

• check for packer library
• call packer library
• capture response of library and return to the caller

hopefully this helps, if not lets continue the discussion.

looking forward to your PR!

[Hrily]

Yeah
I got the idea, will start working on it...

Do you have any test cases that I should/must pass, for checking correctness?

[mayn]

Thanks @Hrily.
Ended up Doing alternate implementation as separate repository https://github.com/mayn/packer.py