Regular expressions missing for name, reference, etc.

[vsoch]

Heyo! Is there a regular expression for the <name> attribute?

refers to the namespace of the repository. MUST be either (a) the digest of the manifest or (b) a tag name. The MUST NOT be in any other format.

I was using [a-z0-9]+(?:[._-][a-z0-9]+)* but I was under the impression that the name should allow a slash (e.g., owner/repository). Thanks!

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Update: we would want the regular expressions for any fields mentioned for the distribution spec to be included here, in a code-agnostic format (e.g., the link below compiles it in golang).

[sajayantony]

Does this help - https://github.com/docker/distribution/blob/2800ab02245e2eafc10e338939511dd1aeb5e135/reference/regexp.go#L53

[vsoch]

yes perfect, thank you!

[vsoch]

Just curious, why isn't this knowledge ported over to this repository?

[sajayantony]

@mikebrow @jdolitsky - I don’t know if this repo has the constraints called out. @vsoch It does makes sense to have it in the spec repo.

[vsoch]

There is detail about regular expressions for the range in spec.md but the name (and others) were missing. I can re-open the issue and rescope to have regular expressions represented here! I think this is important because someone should be able to read the spec and implement the distribution spec without needing to reference other repos.

[jdolitsky]

Hey yall, I've just added it to the spec revamp epic: #126

[vsoch]

Thank you!

[jdolitsky]

Resolved by #206