The "backend" types in API were designed to decouple the API server
implementation from the daemon, or other parts of the code that
back the API server. This would allow the daemon to evolve (e.g.
functionality moved to different subsystems) without that impacting
the API server's implementation.
Now that the API server is no longer part of the API package (module),
there is no benefit to having it in the API module. The API server
may evolve (and require changes in the backend), which has no direct
relation with the API module (types, responses); the backend definition
is, however, coupled to the API server implementation.
It's worth noting that, while "technically" possible to use the API
server package, and implement an alternative backend implementation,
this has never been a prime objective. The backend definition was
never considered "stable", and we don't expect external users to
(attempt) to use it as such.
This patch moves the backend types to the daemon/server package,
so that they can evolve with the daemon and API server implementation
without that impacting the API module (which we intend to be stable,
following SemVer).
Signed-off-by: Sebastiaan van Stijn <github@gone.nl>
The stringid package is used in many places; while it's trivial
to implement a similar utility, let's just provide it as a utility
package in the client, removing the daemon-specific logic.
For integration tests, I opted to use the implementation in the
client, as those should not ideally not make assumptions about
the daemon implementation.
Signed-off-by: Sebastiaan van Stijn <github@gone.nl>
