Call modules from an standalone program using the SDK

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I see there was a Issue for this: https://github.com/dagger/dagger/issues/5993 that was closed as complete. Is there an example of this somewhere?

[devout sentinel]

I think this was closed by mistake. We merged an initial PR, but it's still experimental and not feature complete.

There is a hidden command dagger client which you can use like this:

dagger client add --generator=python ./path/to/your/client

[high needle]

Thanks!

[high needle]

Just fyi it seemed to work when generating a go client, but with python:

Error: failed to export client: input: moduleSource.withClient.generatedContextDirectory failed to run client generator python: failed to get required client generation files: failed to get required client generation files: select: Select: PythonSdk has no such field: "requiredClientGenerationFiles"

Looks like typescript has it.

[devout sentinel]

cc @ocean ruin who is the mastermind behind this feature 🙂 👆

[high needle]

Also, not sure if this is on the roadmap but it does not look like cross language generation works. When trying to generate a typescript from a go module it:

 Container.withDirectory(
    │ │ directory: Host.directory(include: ["./dagger.json", "./**/*", "package.json", "tsconfig.json"], path: "/home/hanleyc/test/dagger"): Directory!
    │ │ path: "/module"
    │ ): Container!
    Container.withWorkdir(path: "/module"): Container!
    Container.withExec(args: ["/codegen", "--lang", "typescript", "--output", "./test", "--introspection-json-path", "/schema.json", "--dev=false", "--client-only"], experimentalPrivilegedNesting: true): Container!
    Container.withExec(args: ["npm", "pkg", "set", "dependencies[@dagger.io/dagger]=@dagger.io/dagger"]): Container!
npm error code ENOENT
npm error syscall open
npm error path /module/package.json
npm error errno -2
npm error enoent Could not read package.json: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/module/package.json'
npm error enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file.
npm error enoent
! process "npm pkg set dependencies[@dagger.io/dagger]=@dagger.io/dagger" did not complete successfully: exit code: 254

You can tell it is attempting to mount package.json from the host directory, which won't exist in a go module.

Glad to see some progress on this though!

[ocean ruin]

Yes normal, it's not supported by Python yet