Support pods/logs subresource streaming

I want to watch and follow the logs of a pod in a gen server. I was hoping the following code would work and nothing would be needed:

    {:ok, _} =
      K8s.Client.connect(
        api_version,
        "pods/log",
        [namespace: namespace, name: name],
        tailLines: 100, follow: true
      )
      |> K8s.Client.put_conn(conn)
      |> K8s.Client.stream_to(self())

It will succeed and then fail a moment later with the following error:

** (FunctionClauseError) no function clause matching in K8s.Client.Mint.Request.map_frame/1
    (k8s 2.2.0) lib/k8s/client/mint/request.ex:131: K8s.Client.Mint.Request.map_frame({:binary, "2023-05-10 22:45:10,540 - bootstrapping - INFO - Figuring out my environment\n"})
    (elixir 1.14.4) lib/enum.ex:1658: Enum."-map/2-lists^map/1-0-"/2
    (k8s 2.2.0) lib/k8s/client/mint/http_adapter.ex:427: K8s.Client.Mint.HTTPAdapter.process_frames/3
    (stdlib 4.3.1) gen_server.erl:1123: :gen_server.try_dispatch/4
    (stdlib 4.3.1) gen_server.erl:1200: :gen_server.handle_msg/6
    (stdlib 4.3.1) proc_lib.erl:240: :proc_lib.init_p_do_apply/3

Obviously, the log message will be different. That makes sense; connect isn't expecting a stream of binary frames. So what's the best way to get pods/logs support? Should we extend connect to handle binary frames and the different query parameters? Or should a K8s.Client.logs() method exist?

Hi @elliottneilclark

Nice catch. I think it's not such a big deal. When I've implemented the mint client for the connect operation, I was focusing on podExec. Each frame you get from podExec comes with a leading byte, annotating the channel (stdout, stderr, error). That's why I'm pattern matching against that first byte in K8s.Client.Mint.Request.map_frame/1.

Obviously, the binary stream sent when connecting to pods/log is not prefixed. So I think all that's missing is something like this: def map_frame({:binary, <<msg::binary>>}), do: {:stdout, msg}.

I will try to add a test and fix this weekend.

So I think all that's missing is something like this:

k8s/lib/k8s/operation.ex

Line 216 in bf4100b

Keyword.take(opts, [:stdin, :stdout, :stderr, :tty, :command, :container])

I think that this needs to accept the query params that pods/log can put forward. Here's a good list for that: https://github.com/kube-rs/kube/blob/3e7f32e7b046c5428539050674e8d2404e3680d5/kube-core/src/subresource.rs#L40

I see, thanks for the hint.

I've created a PR (wip). I'm still considering splitting the pods/exec and pods/log cases for the params, though. The defaults are different and the "allowed params", too...

I've created a PR (wip).

Thank you. I like that; it's elegant in re-using what's already there.

I'm still considering splitting the pods/exec and pods/log cases for the params, though.

That makes sense; most of the clients I could find had separate APIs for exec/connect and logging. It would also allow for a cleaner API when not trying to follow the logs (aka :get with the log subresource.)

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