kustomize edit add generator

[lack]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

When I have a large number of generators in a directory, it is cumbersome to add them all to kustomization.yaml by hand.

Describe the solution you'd like

Just like is already available for transformers, I would like the "kustomize edit add" command to support adding generators by wildcard.

Probably "kustomize edit remove generator" should be added too for consistency.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Writing my own script that does this.

[natasha41575]

Are you envisioning something similar to kustomize edit add resource? As in, if I do kustomize edit add generator gener.yaml, my kustomization.yaml file will be updated to contain the following:

generators:
- gener.yaml

If my understanding of the feature request is correct, I don't have any objections to this command being added to kustomize as a feature, especially since we already have a kustomize edit add transformer command that does exactly the same thing with the transformers field.

I would be happy to review and potentially accept a PR that implements this. If anyone is interested, you can look at the code in kustomize/commands/edit/add/addtransformer.go and copy most of the implementation from there - just change Transformers to Generators.

/triage accepted
/kind feature
/label help wanted

[lack]

Are you envisioning something similar to kustomize edit add resource? As in, if I do kustomize edit add generator gener.yaml, my kustomization.yaml file will be updated to contain the following:

generators:
- gener.yaml

Exactly what I meant :)

If my understanding of the feature request is correct, I don't have any objections to this command being added to kustomize as a feature, especially since we already have a kustomize edit add transformer field that does exactly the same thing with the transformers field.

I would be happy to review and potentially accept a PR that implements this. If anyone is interested, you can look at the code in kustomize/commands/edit/add/addtransformer.go and copy most of the implementation from there - just change Transformers to Generators.

Thanks! I may give it a shot myself, time permitting...

[natasha41575]

I have created the PR for this feature here #4361

[jgato]

was this finally included? it seems an interesting feature, why we cannot add other resources but no generators with the edit add?