api: remove host side arguments facility

Now that arguments are transmitted via a mapped, i.e. bind-mounted,
file instead of using the jsoncomm RPC mechanism, all the methods
related to the latter can be removed from API.

osbuild/api.py

@@ -139,30 +139,17 @@ class API(BaseAPI):
 
     endpoint = "osbuild"
 
-    def __init__(self, args, *, socket_address=None):
+    def __init__(self, *, socket_address=None):
         super().__init__(socket_address)
-        self.input = args
         self.metadata = {}
         self.error = None
 
-    def _prepare_input(self):
-        with tempfile.TemporaryFile() as fd:
-            fd.write(json.dumps(self.input).encode('utf-8'))
-            # re-open the file to get a read-only file descriptor
-            return open(f"/proc/self/fd/{fd.fileno()}", "r")
-
     def _set_metadata(self, message, fds):
         fd = message["metadata"]
         with os.fdopen(fds.steal(fd), encoding="utf-8") as f:
             data = json.load(f)
         self.metadata.update(data)
 
-    def _get_arguments(self, sock):
-        with self._prepare_input() as data:
-            fds = []
-            fds.append(data.fileno())
-            sock.send({"type": "fd", "fd": 0}, fds=fds)
-
     def _get_exception(self, message):
         self.error = {
             "type": "exception",
@@ -174,8 +161,6 @@ class API(BaseAPI):
             self._set_metadata(msg, fds)
         elif msg["method"] == 'exception':
             self._get_exception(msg)
-        elif msg["method"] == 'get-arguments':
-            self._get_arguments(sock)
 
 
 def exception(e, path="/run/osbuild/api/osbuild"):

osbuild/pipeline.py

@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ class Stage:
 
             self.prepare_arguments(args, args_path)
 
-            api = API(args)
+            api = API()
             build_root.register_api(api)
 
             rls = remoteloop.LoopServer()

test/mod/test_api.py

@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 
 import os
 import multiprocessing as mp
-import sys
 import tempfile
 import unittest
 
@@ -68,27 +67,17 @@ class TestAPI(unittest.TestCase):
                 with api:
                     pass
 
-    def test_get_arguments(self):
-        tmpdir = self.tmp.name
-        path = os.path.join(tmpdir, "osbuild-api")
-        args = {"options": {"answer": 42}}
-
-        with osbuild.api.API(args, socket_address=path) as _:
-            data = osbuild.api.arguments(path=path)
-            self.assertEqual(data, args)
-
     def test_exception(self):
         # Check that 'api.exception' correctly sets 'API.exception'
         tmpdir = self.tmp.name
         path = os.path.join(tmpdir, "osbuild-api")
-        args = {}
 
         def exception(path):
             with osbuild.api.exception_handler(path):
                 raise ValueError("osbuild test exception")
             assert False, "api.exception should exit process"
 
-        api = osbuild.api.API(args, socket_address=path)
+        api = osbuild.api.API(socket_address=path)
         with api:
             p = mp.Process(target=exception, args=(path, ))
             p.start()
@@ -109,14 +98,13 @@ class TestAPI(unittest.TestCase):
         # set correctly
         tmpdir = self.tmp.name
         path = os.path.join(tmpdir, "osbuild-api")
-        args = {}
 
         def metadata(path):
             data = {"meta": "42"}
             osbuild.api.metadata(data, path=path)
             return 0
 
-        api = osbuild.api.API(args, socket_address=path)
+        api = osbuild.api.API(socket_address=path)
         with api:
             p = mp.Process(target=metadata, args=(path, ))
             p.start()