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Move logic out of cmd/exporter
Description
We would like to push as much validation and processing out of the cmd/exporter.go as possible. The cmds are hard to test and keep growing because there is already validation logic present.
Proposed solution
Instead of validating inside of cmd/exporter.go, we should put as much validation as possible into exporter.go. This probably means introducing and using interfaces that wrap file, image, and env access. We should write unit tests to cover and possibly remove validation specific acceptance tests.
Additional context
- We need to keep
creatoras well as library authors in mind here a bit. Havingreport, err := exporter.Export(opts)makes sense for platforms building on top oflifecycle, like buildkit. So we may wish to introduce new methods that write the files that can optionally be executed by those platforms and always executed bycmd/exporter.go.
See #805 (analyzer) and #860 (detector) for how this is done for other phases.