Add real source programs to PATH

demo/alice/currenttime/intake.json

@@ -1,11 +1,8 @@
 {
   "action": {
     "fetch": {
-      "exe": "sh",
+      "exe": "currenttime.sh",
-      "args": [
+      "args": []
-        "-c",
-        "echo {\\\"id\\\": \\\"$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M)\\\"}"
-      ]
     }
   }
 }

demo/alice/echo/intake.json

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+{
+  "action": {
+    "fetch": {
+      "exe": "echo.py",
+      "args": []
+    }
+  },
+  "env": {
+    "MESSAGE": "Hello, Alice!"
+  }
+}

demo/bob/echo/intake.json

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+{
+  "action": {
+    "fetch": {
+      "exe": "echo.py",
+      "args": []
+    }
+  },
+  "env": {
+    "MESSAGE": "Hello, Bob!"
+  }
+}

demo/default.nix

@@ -40,19 +40,22 @@ flake: { pkgs, ... }:
     extraMounts = {
       "/mnt/alice" = ./alice;
       "/mnt/bob" = ./bob;
+      "/mnt/sources" = ./sources;
     };
   };
 
   # Create an activation script that copies and chowns the demo content
+  # chmod 777 because the users may not exist when the activation script runs
   system.activationScripts.demoSetup = ''
     ${pkgs.coreutils}/bin/mkdir -p /home/alice/.local/share/intake
     ${pkgs.coreutils}/bin/cp -r /mnt/alice/* /home/alice/.local/share/intake/
-    ${pkgs.coreutils}/bin/chgrp -R users /home/alice
+    ${pkgs.coreutils}/bin/chmod -R 777 /home/alice/.local
-    ${pkgs.coreutils}/bin/chmod -R 775 /home/alice/.local
 
     ${pkgs.coreutils}/bin/mkdir -p /home/bob/.local/share/intake
     ${pkgs.coreutils}/bin/cp -r /mnt/bob/* /home/bob/.local/share/intake/
-    ${pkgs.coreutils}/bin/chgrp -R users /home/bob
+    ${pkgs.coreutils}/bin/chmod -R 777 /home/bob/.local
-    ${pkgs.coreutils}/bin/chmod -R 775 /home/bob/.local
   '';
+
+  # Put the demo sources on the global PATH
+  environment.variables.PATH = "/mnt/sources";
 }

demo/sources/currenttime.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+echo {\"id\": \"$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M)\"}

demo/sources/echo.py

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import hashlib, json, os, sys
+
+echo = os.environ.get("MESSAGE", "Hello, world!")
+item = {
+    "id": hashlib.md5(echo.encode("utf8")).hexdigest(),
+    "title": echo,
+}
+print(json.dumps(item), file=sys.stdout)