grafana/pkg/framework/coremodel/interface.go

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package coremodel
import (
"github.com/grafana/thema"
)
// Interface is the primary coremodel interface that must be implemented by all
// Grafana coremodels. A coremodel is the foundational, canonical schema for
// some known-at-compile-time Grafana object.
//
// Currently, all Coremodels are expressed as Thema lineages.
type Interface interface {
// Lineage should return the canonical Thema lineage for the coremodel.
Lineage() thema.Lineage
// CurrentSchema should return the schema of the version that the Grafana backend
// is currently written against. (While Grafana can accept data from all
// older versions of the Thema schema, backend Go code is written against a
// single version for simplicity)
CurrentSchema() thema.Schema
// GoType should return a pointer to the Go struct type that corresponds to
// the Current() schema.
GoType() interface{}
}