Openwhisk: wsk action copy only copies exec not parameters or annotations

[csantanapr]

From @rabbah "i think it be convenient to copy parameters, and also the annotations.
it is less useful to copy the exec and miss out on all the rest."

[dubee]

@csantanapr, can you explain this one more? I'm not sure what wsk action copy is?

[rabbah]

wsk action create X --copy Y is a way to create action X by copying the exec from action Y. It does not copy parameters or annotations from Y to X. The suggestion above was to make the copy more complete.

[mdeuser]

@csantanapr - Just confirming... If this action were part of a package, the above proposal would NOT include the package parameters/annotation values, but only the parameter/annotation values directly associated with the action.

At some point, would there ever be a need to allow the action developer to prohibit a specific action parameter/annotation from being copied? I suppose this would also affect wsk action get as well.

[csantanapr]

@mdeuser

@csantanapr - Just confirming... If this action were part of a package, the above proposal would NOT include the package parameters/annotation values, but only the parameter/annotation values directly associated with the action.

Correct, I would not copy parameters annotations from package, since this parameter values come into play at invocation time, also user could be copying the action into a new package, which could have a different set of default parameters set.

At some point, would there ever be a need to allow the action developer to prohibit a specific action parameter/annotation from being copied? I suppose this would also affect wsk action get as well.

Correct, if the subject is using a key that allows him visibility to read that information, then there is no harm to allow them to copy that information.

[dubee]

Do we still want this functionality? If not, please close. If so, please merge the corresponding PR.

[csantanapr]

I think it would be good to have it in and merge #1662, lets continue conversation there, about the concern that @rabbah express.