[OASIS Issue Tracker] (TOSCA-220) get_artifact function

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Idan Moyal commented on TOSCA-220:
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If the desired functionality is as hot's get_file, why not calling the function get_file?
get_artifact may be confusing unless its used for referencing artifacts in the TOSCA template.

> get_artifact function
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>
>                 Key: TOSCA-220
>                 URL: https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/TOSCA-220
>             Project: OASIS Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) TC
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Profile-YAML
>            Reporter: Luc Boutier
>
> Currently the specification allows to define functions like get_attribute or get_input to be used as input parameters of an operation.
> Actually we may have scenarios where we want also to provide an artifact as an input:
> Let's consider that I want to host 2 database on a single RDBMS or 2 war on a container.
> I want to define a script that is generic so it can handle an artifact based on any location (let's consider the type is file). In order to do so I expect the orchestrator to provide me the actual location of the artifact "db_content" for example. Just like attribute of a node I should be able to access it through an environment variable set by the orchestrator.
> syntax is the same as get_attribute but the value set to the environment variable is the actual artifact location.



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