Merge lp://qastaging/~mvo/snappy/unexport-more into lp://qastaging/~snappy-dev/snappy/snappy-moved-to-github

I'm all for this, but not sure how this impacts the webdm work; can MetaRepository be setup to only search locally?

In the case of implementing "Ports" for installed packages we'd need to infer the real Part to be able to call it's .Ports() receiver (which is not written yet); will this still work?

or maybe .Ports could be part of the generic interface and if it's in the store one day, it's all good and calling it for the system just panics.

What kind of search do you need in the MetaRepository for local snaps? Is there a "search local snaps" feature in webdm? I guess we can simply extend Search() to Search(flags int) and add snapp.LocalOnly or something to the flags. Is there a list of use-cases or mockups for webdm to get a feel what kind of api it needs?

> What kind of search do you need in the MetaRepository for local snaps? Is
> there a "search local snaps" feature in webdm? I guess we can simply extend
> Search() to Search(flags int) and add snapp.LocalOnly or something to the
> flags. Is there a list of use-cases or mockups for webdm to get a feel what
> kind of api it needs?

I might have confused the webdm proposed api (https://gist.github.com/sergiusens/15949095c52a83a46c6b) with what is here; but the idea is that it is easier on the javascript side if a default package listing returns a consolidated view of what is on the store and locally; when filtering is done (aka search), it would do the same.

This doesn't need to be done on the snappy api side; it's a presentation layer issue, it just needs to be doable in some way.

I'm only worried that if important types are unexported I won't be able to do

if localSnap, ok := metaSnap.(*LocalSnap); ok {
    localSnap.Ports()
}

but if .Ports() becomes a generic interface it's all fine.

Also, I'm being lazy here, I could as well read the full code as I wasn't involved in this refactor and don't have it in my groins yet (hence the Needs Information).

I set this back to WIP, I would love to get it merge still, but I don't know enough yet about webdm and its needs. I certainly hope we export all interfaces that are useful and would love to hide implementation details like that ubuntu-core is a special snap.